Driving a car

While driving to work this morning on Hwy #7, I came to a place where two lanes merged into one ... the car behind me on my left, shot ahead to pass me before the lanes merged ... I figured that this driver was really in a hurry and needed to get in front of me to motor on ... but I was wrong, this person was obcessed with passing me but, whe in front of me slowed way down ... the speed limit was 55 and they were going 48 ... what is that about?

Perfectionism

You know how people always say "Life isn't perfect ...". Well, they're right. And trying to make it perfect only leads to misery. Shooting for perfection and not making it doesn't make things better - it only leads to frustration and a lack of priorities. We have limited time and energy - they should be used on getting what matters right - perfectionists get hung-up on the little things at the expense of the big things. This relates to everything - even the golf swing. Modern golf instruction tries to turn golfers into having the "perfect" swing. They hold up a model of a "perfect" swing and try to make people fit the model. Thus, too much emphasis on meaningless parts of the golf swing. What matters in the golf swing is impact. And the correct use of the hands and wrists makes the correct impact position. But again, the perfectionists are trying to turn people into machines - and machines don't have hands. In fact, this type of instruction wants to take the hands out of the golf swing. These folks emphasize the "big muscles". Ok, let's talk golf and football players - usually quarterbacks are good golfers - they have good hands and smaller muscles. The linemen are usually poor golfers - they have big muscles and bad hands. Common sense has gone out the window.

Babble

I've been too busy to blog ... I know, I know ... it's a terrible excuse, but true. So I have to babble on a number of topics, to make up for my lack of blogging. First, Phil's win at the Players Championship was very impressive - he actually played under control - Tiger had better watch out ... and the Butch Harmon factor could really liven things up. The Twins are still fine - it's way too early to panic - glad they got rid of Ponzone, he was terrible - what's with Punto? He's killing 'em - the number 2 batter needs to get on base, Punto hits long fly balls ... Mauer should bat #2, Cuddyer #3, Morneau #4, Hunter #5, Kubel #6 ... also, what's with Nathan? he just throws fastballs ...