Milwaukee in June

There are times in life when you're surrounded by a handful of good friends and everyone's having a good time and you'll remember the evening for a very long time, and then there are the experiences you have with people you'll probably only meet once. This weekend would be defined by the latter.

I'm sitting in my nice room at the Milwaukee Country Club on a Thursday evening. I had a great dinner of steak, potatoes, and chocolate cake tonight topped off with some Bacardi and coke and a little red wine. I flew up today with my boss, Scott to meet with Barry Allen, an Executive V.P. of Qwest Communications and basically the #2 guy in the company. I can't say that I have dinner often with the millionaire type but Barry was very engaging and a great listener. Qwest currently provides my company Rush Enterprises with a data and voice network that services about 60 locations across 9 states.

After dinner we took a quick walk around the club house and a few of the tee boxes and greens that we'd be playing on in the morning. The course looks tough but it's the kind of layout that looks like it's been manicured with a set of tiny shears. Every tree has a perfect circular edge traced around it as well as every sidewalk. The edges of the fairways have a perfectly even 4 foot wide strip of slightly longer, darker grass before becoming rough. I stood on the 10th tee box and looked down at a dog leg right par 5. I scoped at the sand traps on the left side of the fairway that sat about 275 yards from the white tees. The tips play about 7400 yards so we'll probably play one tee in front of that. We should have caddies in the morning, but the caddies are high school students and this being the last week of school in Wisconsin, we're not sure how many will be available.

After the 18 tomorrow, we're going to pick up a rental car and head towards Chicago. We're gonna play another round in the afternoon and then go at it again on Saturday morning. Then it's off to Los Angeles and finally back to Austin on Tuesday. I hope to keep a lot of mental images from tomorrow in my mind for a long time, but I'll also take some pics just in case I forget.