Discraft Ace Race 2006

This past weekend I along with 58 other discers participated in a Discraft Ace Race event at Hickory Run. This was a great turnout for the Bearclaws and many thanks to Mike Solt who made it all happen. I had a few close shots that almost hit the basket. My buddy nailed the basket on the first throw of the day, all thanks to a lucky bounce off a tree. There were only two people who actually hit an ace. One person had more basket hits so he walked away with the $300 prize package. Hopefully this will become an annual event for the Bearclaws or maybe get an Ace Race at one of the Lehigh Valley courses and rotate each year.

Anyone who participated in one of the ace races should fill out this survay. You could win further prizes from Discraft.

After the event there was random doubles which I performed horribly. So did my partner. I think I bring everybody down. My buddy who made the trip with me came in third and split $30. Good for him, he was able to pay the tolls on the turnpike.

Next event for the Bearclaws is the Prehibernation Doubles.

Coke Zero Sucks Ass

Every food and drink these days needs to boast lower calorie, sugar, trans fat contents. That's all good and all, but does taste have to suffer too? I'm all for healthier things in our kitchens. We as a country are a bunch of lard asses with no self control when it comes to Burker King's quadruple patty bypass burgers. Soda is a big beverage in our country and is probably found in sippy cups of children more often than 100% fruit juices. So we do need some changes.

Coke's one attempt last year (I think) was C2. Half the sugar and calories than the original recipe. It was great. It tasted like Coke and I bought it often. It even tasted great with Captain Morgan. Then a few months later, it was gone. No where to be found in my area. I kind of saw it coming. Sales numbers weren't high so instead of sticking with a product longer than one business quarter, it will get dumped. Well it got dumped for this Coke Zero.

Coke Zero is a low-calorie variation of Coca-Cola Classic sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame potassium (also known as Ace-K). The biggest change is the overall taste. It tastes like cold flat diet coke and leaves an aftertaste in the back of my throat like I just threw up. My wife likes it but she also likes Diet Coke. No amount of rum can cover up the nastiness of Coke Zero.

I want C2 back!

Update On My Grill

Just days after my burner collapsed, my father-in-law calls me asking me about what grill I have. Apparently, on of the sales reps that works out of the beer distribution center he works at destroyed their new grill. He took it in a truck and didn't bother to strap it down. Well, lets just say the grill got some serious road rash on Rt. 10. Luckily, the parts match up and he stripped what was salvagable for me. So now I don't need to drop my money on new parts.

Congratulations if you were born between...

Congratulations to all the kids born between 1930 to 1979.

-First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
-They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
-Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
-We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
-As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
-Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
-We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
-We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
-We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
-We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
-No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
-We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
-We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
-We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
-We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
-We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
-We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
-Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
-The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned...

HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the government regulated our lives for our own good, and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!