1. The second Monday of April has arrived. The month is off to a strong start!
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| Carroll Park Hole 5 May Second Shot Came up a bit short April 7, 2019 |
3. Despite my thoughts to the contrary, I did make time to play a 9 hole round of golf yesterday at Carroll Park. I actually did pretty well finishing 8 strokes over par, which for me is a fantastic round since I'm more of a double-bogey player.
4. The crisis of having multiple homes is that when there is a problem in one and I'm not there, it becomes a crisis out of proportion.
5. Why do things break when we are not looking? Why do plugs come unplugged when no-one touches them?
6. The weather is in a seesaw pattern right now--Cold/Hot . I'm pulling for the cold.
7. Today is a travel day, beginning another week of travel for me. At least I will have some additions to my occasional Out the Hotel Window series.
8. Question of the moment. When did my pets learn to tell time? They awaken me every morning just before my alarm clock goes off.
9. Today in History. On this day in 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers. A crowd of 53,775 people, the largest in the history of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, was with Aaron that night to cheer when he hit a 4th inning pitch off the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Al Downing. However, as Aaron was an African American who had received death threats and racist hate mail during his pursuit of one of baseball’s most distinguished records, the achievement was bittersweet.
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“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.”
Excerpt from Ronald Reagan's 1964 speech to the Republican National Convention
-- Bob Doan, Elkridge, MD
Ronald Reagan Quote for the Week
“If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.” Excerpt from Ronald Reagan's 1964 speech to the Republican National Convention
-- Bob Doan, Elkridge, MD
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