DISContinuum Presents IOS #3 @ Sterling, IL--07/11 & 07/12 2009

[pdga#7648]

My legs are feeling it today. What was the total distance for that course? I suppose I should probably add an extra half mile just walking between a couple of the holes. :-)

legs, feet, arm, back, everything was sore after this trny. That walk between 18 and 1, was long enough to smoke 2 cigarettes.
Ever think about playing 9A after 18? When we were playing A, people were walking thru the hole to get to #1. Kind of distracting.

[Bruce Brakel]

I was thinking the same thing about the hole routing, 9A and 9B both could be played after 18.  Of course, they wouldn'tbe called 9A and 9B because that would be confusing.     Or after 18 we could play 9A, a hole using the 9C area but flowing the other way, and 9B.  I agree that there was a lot of 18 to 1 strolling going on in the 9A fairway.  My group was polite about it and paused while Owens and Kutella were putting.  One of them asked, "What are you guys doing, anyway?"  And I said, "We're being polite and waiting for you to putt."  And he said something like.  "Oh.  Huh!"  Kutella made a really nice 25 footer with all the pressure of Sprague and a couple of other pros providing a gallery. 

[Bruce Brakel]

With all the talk about Pitner's awesome merch, I thought I'd post this:

Pitner has an awesome stack of stuff, eh?    

II'll be merching IOS 4.  I'll be taking Pitner's funny money but we'll be issuing IOS funny money.  That would be a good time to cash out your IOS script. 

Trophy update:  I finished the lettering tonight.  I'll put the dye on tomorrow.

Monday night I had to do the household check book and budget book and pay the PDGA $997 with a quick accounting of why they got to take that much out of the tournament.  Tuesday night got burned up by a social obligation.  Shannon made the finals in a big Detroit area talent show, and if Shannon were leaving us for Nashville, I wanted to be there 'cuz ten years from now, 5000 people would claim they were there.  The show was great, standing room only, the crowd spilling over into the pool room and dining area.  Shannon was objectively awesome, but the audience voting format killed her.  Everyone was there to vote for their homeboy, and Shannon just didn't have as many homeboys!  The judges got Shannon and another talented kid in the Final 4, but the winner was the guy who packed the place.  Seriously, most people were casting their votes before the show began.  The best group was this Canadian group named Moonshade Slide or something.  The judges didn't like them, and they had a total of four people in the audience.  They were like a time machine to the 60s, Peter Paul and Mary, and Mary's two sisters.  Devine was like, "I bet they have some good dope in the bus," and I said, "Dude, they had to cross the border.  You don't take dope across the border dressed like hippies in a band bus."  They sang this really heavy original song about regrets, and Devine says, "Man, give up your gun and I'll shoot myself right now." 

Shannon has some of her music on myspace.  Check it out:

http://www.myspace.com/shannonjohnsonmusic

Here's the guy she lost to:

http://www.myspace.com/ericfritts

O.k., he's good too.

Both of them are playing the acoustic guitar on their myspace songs. 

[Bruce Brakel]

Trophy update:

I got dye on eight of the thirteen tonight.  I might go do the other five but I had to take a break from all the spinning. 

I'm doing the same basic thing on all of them.  I've put the name, division and place information around the perimeter and I'm dying that with a band of color that goes with the disc, red on yellow, red on blue, blue on green, black on the orange and red discs.  Then I'm putting some bands dye around the eccentric logo and making a spike sun pattern there. 

It is supposed to be cold tomorrow, so I might warm them just a little to set the dye.  They are all Champion plastic, so they will take a little warming, and then the dye will set deep.  I don't want to toast the foils, though, so I'll probably just warm them to 135 or so. 

[Jon Brakel]

...I've put the name, division and place information around the perimeter...

Don't forget the PDGA # for those that requested it.

[Bruce Brakel]

I only saw one that requested it.  I put it on, but the place I put it was "creative".  Pitner's artwork was a little egg shaped so I put it on the side of the egg to round it out a little. 

[pdga#7648]

Trophy update:

I got dye on eight of the thirteen tonight.  I might go do the other five but I had to take a break from all the spinning. 

I'm doing the same basic thing on all of them.  I've put the name, division and place information around the perimeter and I'm dying that with a band of color that goes with the disc, red on yellow, red on blue, blue on green, black on the orange and red discs.  Then I'm putting some bands dye around the eccentric logo and making a spike sun pattern there. 

It is supposed to be cold tomorrow, so I might warm them just a little to set the dye.  They are all Champion plastic, so they will take a little warming, and then the dye will set deep.  I don't want to toast the foils, though, so I'll probably just warm them to 135 or so. 

any new updates?

[Bruce Brakel]

Trophies are done, rinsed and peeled.  They are not the best trophies I've done, but not the worst either.  I wanted Kira to take some pictures before I sent them out, so I had to wait for her to get home from gramma's. 

[pdga#7648]

no prob Bruce. Just thought I would ask before leaving for World's. Thanks.

[jynx]

just wondering when the ios#3 trophy discs will be sent out?

[pdga#7648]

I think he said after Kira got home from grammy's??

[Jon Brakel]

Don't expect a reply from Bruce until at least after this weekend. He has no computer access right now.

[Bruce Brakel]

Davenport, Rock Falls, Sterling, DeKalb and Montgomery tropgies were delivered yesterday.  Check your mailboxes or between the doors.  Pekin, Normal, Algonquin and a couple of others were not along the way so they will go by ordinary mail.  We're in Upper Sandusky today.  No trophies to deliver in Upper Sandusky. 

[ChrisPUTTS]

The deadline for turning in results for the 7/21 update was before the tournament. IOS3 will be in for the following update. The projected scores and ratings I did were all out of whack due to the excellent lunch by Tim & his crew so they were scrapped and will not be included. :-)

Does anybody know when the next ratings updates normally come out?

[pickax]

It's in the FAQ on pdga.com

[Bruce Brakel]

There you go, teaching them to fish.   

September 1, or August 31 if they get it done early. 

[stpitner]

ooo, thanks for pointing that out - I need to get my td reports turned in - don't see a posted deadline yet, hopefully I'm still good

[pickax]

By normal procedures, the deadline for TD reports should be today.

[stpitner]

gee, thanks for posting that pdga.  They still are talking about the last ratings update on their website

[pdga#7648]

Davenport, Rock Falls, Sterling, DeKalb and Montgomery tropgies were delivered yesterday.  Check your mailboxes or between the doors.  Pekin, Normal, Algonquin and a couple of others were not along the way so they will go by ordinary mail....   

Ordinary mail? meaning The Pony Express?  lol j/k

Has it made it to the mailbox yet for the Pekin area Bruce?

Thanks.