Two unexpected things today!

The first, I made a conscious decision without being under any duress or influence of narcotics (which I don't use anyways but it makes it funnier) that my lunch today will be an apple and salad. Oh and mineral water.

That judder you just felt? It's ok, the world is turning again.

Secondly, I received an email this morning asking where to mail my plaque from the Florida State USPSA Championships a few weeks ago. Evidently my 3rd place overall division finish/first A class was awarded something. I'm still very unhappy with third, but this is a pleasant surprise.

That will make going to the mail box in a few days worth the walk.

Monday!!

I'd change it from Monday  to "anything".

Match Win Video

So the rules radically changed in IDPA for 2017. This was my first match under the new rules. Benton Gun Club has an IDPA match the 3rd Saturday of every month starting at 9am. Come on out if you want to get started in a fun pistol match.

The changes made the shooting a little more fun in my opinion and not worrying about cover calls was a HUGE relief. I was first overall by over 30 seconds and I won every stage. I hope this is validation of my current training regimen. Check out the video and subscribe to my Youtube channel if you want to see more action like this!

3 days in.....

3 days in on not drinking any soda and doing alright. And as I despise diet soda if I can stay away from the regular stuff I'll probably make it. And I realize that gatorade and juices are no better either, so I'm not doing it for naught and replacing the soda with too much of something else. Just drinking a ton more water than I used to.

3 days in with all of my social media stuff deleted. Talked with my main sponsor today and they understood and are totally cool with it. That made me very happy as well!! So yeah, Facebook, Instagram, my athlete Facebook, Kik, messenger, Snapchat and all of that is totally deleted on the profile level and apps gone from my phone.

I evidently have an inactive Twitter account and Google+ from my email. But who looks at those?? I have a Youtube channel and that's it. Feels pretty good!

Not what you think....

Success in your match performance isn't who can do the best each and every time but rather who makes the least mistakes. You can win a match not winning a single stage if you don't make any mistakes.

It's better to finish 2nd or 3rd all match than it is to be 1st, 8th, 1st, 10th etc.......

Things I thought I'd never say....

"I ate too much pizza." But oh man, evidently last night I did. When you can't sleep because of the huge boulder of food in your stomach and heart burn all night, well you probably did eat too much pizza. I didn't think it was humanly possible, but I did it. Kinda like running the 4 minute mile. But stuffing my face.

"Gray hair doesn't bother me." When I only had one or six of them I just plucked them out. Now I have tens of them and I just accept it. Though it is one reason why I always shave my beard when it finally gets good and long is the two stripes of gray in in running down from my chin.

"I think I'm going to stop drinking soda." It's a lot easier to maintain weight when you're not drinking 2-300 extra calories per day from sugar. I love the taste of sugary drinks though so while better for me, not very fun. I'm slowly learning to enjoy just drinking water most of the day. And funnily enough I notice I also make minimally better food choices during the day when I mostly drink water.

"The new King Kong remake is going to be awesome!" Uh, thanks to Peter Jackson I have hated King Kong for years now. Not even the ride in Orlando changed my mind. But this new movie looks like it will undo all the bad King Kong I've had to suffer from since 1978.

"I'm going to Cuba for the day." Yep, it's set now. When I am in Florida this March, the first time of two March trips, I am doing a day trip to Cuba. Big deal you say? Yeah, you could have gotten to Cuba before, but for many Americans of non-Cuban descent it just didn't seem like a doable trip, until now. Also, I grew up in the Cold War era. Kids today learn Islamic terrorists are the bad guys but when I was growing up it was Communists. And a prime example of Commie awfulness was Castro and Cuba. So it's a little shocking to be going to what was once denied, enemy territory.

Ef El Ay

I have a lot of shooting matches in Florida this year. Most of them are in central Florida and not much I want to stick around and see, especially when by myself.

But in March I'll be with my friend from California, DO down at the bottom of Florida, south of Miami. So I thought of doing things fun together since we'll be there a few extra days. Snorkeling, shark fishing, Everglades air boat, drive to Key West on the Overseas Highway, driving school at Homestead Raceway. You know, rowdy stuff.

Until I saw you can fly to Havana, Cuba from Miami and back the same day for just over $200!! Uh yeah, I wanna go to Cuba!