Monday, Maureen and i played a round of golf with our great friends, Peter and Nancy Toennies.

The four of us have played an incredible number of rounds together. It was a better round for me than in the last six months or more. However, that was not the most enjoyable part of the afternoon. The highlight was the Southwest corner.

We played at the Sea ‘n Air Golf course on the North Island Naval Air Station. It was magic: mid-January, 67 degrees, the old lighthouse atop Point Loma across the channel silhouetted against the sky. The channel led to the number one sea buoy, that last navigational manmade marker to my Pacific, my sea. Navy aircraft were performing touch-and-gos on the adjacent landing fields. To top it off, the snack shop next to the 9th fairway and 12th green had resumed stocking Budweiser beer.

Budweiser has always been my beer of choice on a golf course. For some reason, a cold Budweiser remains my favorite when playing a round. i drink and have drunk other beers since college, but Bud is it while playing golf.

When the round concluded, we drove off the base and to the Brigantine for supper. The Coronado Brig, the original location before it expanded, has been one of my favorite hangouts since i first came to San Diego in the 1970s. It has changed greatly.

i preferred its old atmospher booths winding around the place, a bar famous for their margaritas, and a great menu. JD Waits and i, while we were rogue bachelors and Naval officers, would go on Thursdays. We would have a margarita at the bar while waiting for our table. We would have their grilled salmon with Hollandaise sauce with the house Chardonnay, and finish with a a courvoisier. Splendid.

It is still good food, just different and not as good as in my memories.

Just a flat wonderful January day in the Southwest corner. i marvel that so many folks i know disaparage where i live because i love it, and my dearest lady is a native.

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The old boy has found someone who agrees with me about sports media, the sports journalists, and their audience: Aaron Rodgers. As the Pittsburgh fans booed and lambasted Mike Tomlin, who stepped down after the ranting, Rodgers stated:

Mike T’s had more success than damn near anyone in the league for the last 19-20 years,” Rodgers said. “More than that, though, when you have the right guy and the culture is right, you don’t think about making a change. But, there’s a lot of pressure that comes from the outside, and obviously, that swings decisions from time to time. But it’s not how I would do things, and not how the league used to be.

My thought when i read this were we are being controlled by people who think they know how to make things right when they don’t have a clue. The amazing thing to me is there are so many people who buy into it.

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So, i concluded, i have no desire to deal with this craziness, this hunt for hatred, this mockery of understanding and open-mindedness. For whom this applies, throw your rocks, froth at the mouth with your hatred, continue to blindly blame everyone else for what you don’t like. i’m too old for that sh…

My life, a week from 82, is wonderful (i’ll go into that later, in spades). i’ll just keep caring for folks and enjoying my life.