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The dam continues being slowly constructed. I wonder if you are going to be able to walk on the top of it since there is obviously a sidewalk further down the face of the dam. If not, I wonder how that will change the O.S.P.W.'s hole 3 and O.S.P.'s hole 16 since that is where the tees are located?

I got two back to back birdies. The first I can't believe it made it in. I threw it up so high, I thought it would hit the branches of the trees. But it didn't.

I was going to Wilco this morning but decided to change my mind and went to the Rivery instead. I got a birdie on hole one and pared most of the rest of the course.

It looks like they stole a brick that was used for a bridge and instead used it for a sign that points to hole 12. Sigh. I wonder how the park officials feel about that tactic.

I went to Old Settler's park today after my morning bike ride. And, as luck would have it, I met a new player. His name was Chris and he was visiting from Tyler (who's wife was attending a party in Round Rock and he took the opportunity to play a new course). He had mistakenly parked at hole 14 when he turned in after seeing a basket. I can understand that since I do that all the time.

He asked if he could join us and we agreed. He also suggested to play skins for a quarter a hole to make it interesting. This is not something I would normally do, but I agreed. Wow, was it a total slaughter. He is by far the best player that I have come across. He birdied something like ten of the holes. He was able to throw his Star Destroyer and his Star Excaliber perfectly stable. And long distance too. He threw it consistently underneath the basket from 400+ feet away.

It looks the the dam construction has removed another hole. Those bastards! It looks like they removed the small hill in the background and replaced it with an identical one made from fresh dirt. Of course, they forgot to replace the basket. (I hope that they don't lose it).

The Wilco's Tennis shop has some weird hours. So I went to stop and buy another year's pass during lunch. And played a round of disc golf of course. I threw three birdies.

And had a good first throw on hole 3. I don't know why that hole is so hard for me. But when I have a good throw like that one, it makes the day better.

I woke up early enough this morning to go biking for 25 miles before disc golf. Since the meetup group has now moved to 9am, my options for finding someone to play disc golf were rather limited. Fortunately, Nick was up for a game. We played "skins". Not to escape this brutal heat, but only to record who won which hole. Sadly, Nick was nigh-invulnerable.

Some stoopid tagger wrote this on a couple of the benches. Grrr! Probably some crazed vegan dissatisfied with supermarket vegetables...

A quick round at Wilco today. I wanted to renew my season pass, but the tennis pro shop was closed. Sigh. At least I got three birdies.

The group went down to Circle C for disc golf. This time, Gravitt used playing cards to separate the groups quickly. And the other group went off to hole seven to start. Sweet. Unfortunately, it rained for the first few holes. But that quickly cleared up, thank god. We did have the added challenge to throw around a sewer maintenance truck on hole one. No one seemed to want to skip the hole. They just threw it. Luckily, no innocent workers were harmed.

After we were finished, Jon and I went to eat fish tacos at Wahoo's Fish Taco on Rio Grande and Fifth street. Then we drove over to Central Market to get some dessert. And, finally, we stopped by Great Hall Games just because. This made for a longish day.

The disc golf meetup met today at Wilco. And it was very large. Too large. The first problem was that John had introduced bag tags to the group that you can compete over. You can only do this with singles. So no one wanted to play doubles today.

The other problem was how the group was split up. Or not as the case might be. Instead of just quickly making groups of four, or even randomly assigning groups of four, John decided that everyone should play at once until people's score differentiated them into groups. I guess the losers should play with other losers. This is not very optimal. Everyone slowly walks ahead. There is confusion about who throws next, etc. Finally, after forty minutes, we split into groups at hole 4.

But, even then, we still have a bottle-neck. The individual groups don't wander ahead to different holes. So I decided to ditch the group and jump to hole 11. Even occasionally throwing multiple times, I was able to finish the course quickly. I made a birdie on hole 12. And I had fun.

It looks like someone made a sign for the bee tree. I hope that this does not point out the bees to everyone and make them a target.

The meetup group went to Cat Hollow. And it was quite large. There were ten people to start with. We spent some time looking for discs on hole one. This was enough motivation for three teams to leave us and play hole 2. Unfortunately, I was stuck in the slow and smoking group.

I was teamed up with a new person named Tim. It was amusing to learn that he was red/green color-blind when he was trying to spot his red disk among the green leaves in a tree. We did pretty well. My Ace Race disc put me within range of a birdie on hole 2.

I also threaded the needle and landed close enough for a birdie on hole 6.

On hole 12, my Panther flew correctly to land near enough for another birdie (although it didn't look like it in mid-flight)!

Tim also did well and got us close enough for other birdies. We kept neck-in-neck for the lead the whole game.

I went to Wilco today for some disc golf. For the first time, I actually scored a par on hole 10! With no mulligans, even.

And on hole 12, my Ace Race disc was good enough for a birdie (but still no ace yet).