Ah, timing.

We moved to Georgia last November, and I went in for my driver's license picture and my Sun City ID badge at a time when I was at my thinnest in more than 20 years. The pictures weren't bad, but I noticed that with my face as thin as it was and my hair really short, I looked old.

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I gained some weight over the winter, so when I realized that my passport was going to expire a week before our trip to Europe next month, I wasn't thrilled about the idea of having a passport photo taken.

I actually found an old picture that I liked, but it was <em>too</em> old. I think it was taken at least 10-12 years ago, and I had my hair permed. I figured it would be silly to color the gray out of my hair and get a perm just to look like my passport photo.

So I combed my hair and went to Wal-Mart to have a passport picture taken. The result is the picture you see here, and it actually came as a pleasant surprise to me. The biggest surprise, something I have noticed only in the last couple of days, is that playing so much golf this spring has enabled me to get some color in my complexion.

At any rate, I'll be looking at this picture in my passport until I'm 71, God willing.

I can live with that.
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<p style="text-align: left;">Nicole has gone on sort of a decorating spree the last couple of days, so we've got more rugs, chairs, etc., coming. In fact, once that stuff arrives, I think we'll be about 98 percent done with what we want to do with the house.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I actually got a minor injury the other night carrying in a UPS package containing a chair for the sun room. I whacked my index finger -- the lower half of it -- against something and I have a fairly painful bone bruise on my right hand.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Thankfully, it hasn't stopped me from watering my tomato plants. If you look closely at the left side of the photo, about halfway up, you'll see the beginning of one of the first tomatoes of the season.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Yeah, I know. Big deal.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">My choice is to write about my golf game, which has gone south this week. I had an extremely weird 18 holes Tuesday, in which I was five over for the first four holes, then had seven pars out of the next 10 and finished six over for the final four holes for an overall score of 86.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It got worse Wednesday. I played only nine holes, and was three over after five before I went double bogey, bogey, double bogey and bogey to finish with a 45.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Those are my worst scores in a while, and my biggest problem is that I'm not reaching greens in regulation. Where a few weeks ago I was driving 210-220 yards consistently, most of my drives this week have been in the 160-170 range.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I've decided I might be getting a little stale. I didn't play today and I might try to stay off the course till Monday.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If that doesn't work, I might have to sacrifice a chicken.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">You think I'm kidding?</p>
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