Sunday, May 11, 2025

Practice weekend by the numbers

Time out the door: 515AM

Temperature °F: 46

Cars stopped by police on Wood Dale road: 2

Increase in cents of cost of gas per gallon compared to Jan 20: 30

Decrease in cents in cost of gas in Beloit, WI compared to station near me: 60

Years since I drove down Wisconsin Dells Drive since I had to exit expressway to talk on phone: 10

Places remembered with daughter who turned 25 on that day: 8

Cost of Osseo Hardee's lunch: $13.27

Gal of gas put in car Osseo Speedway: 11.13

Years since previous time there when I made a joke about employee hydrating a pizza: 10

Total dead deer seen on I-94 in Wisconsin: 10

Total floors of elevation required to navigate Oakwood disc golf course: 11

Birdies on course including ones throwing the shorter layout while scoring the long one: 5

Holes where I expect OB or Mando added for worlds as the fairways are close to each other: 3

Distance in miles from Northwood Park where I played rounds 2&4 of 2022 worlds to Pizza Ranch: 2.7

Distance in miles from Jones Park where I played rounds 2&4 of 2024 worlds to Pizza Ranch: 1.5

Distance in feet from basket 18 at Oakwood Park where I will be playing rounds 2&4 of 2025 worlds to door of Pizza Ranch: 306

Maximum height in feet of entrance to parking structure at Mall of America that a driver in a box truck ignored: 7

Number of FB posts seen about baseball preference of the new Pope: 10

Distance as the crow flies in miles from hotel to tee one at the Bethel University course: .9

Driving miles: 2.7

Driving time in minutes from hotel to Bethel University course: 9

Cost savings per night at hotel reserved for worlds compared to Worlds main hotel: $20

Travel minutes from Quality Inn to Treasure Island Casino where Weird Al will be on June 28: 55

Hotels in that area available for that night only: 0

dx Leopards thrown at Bethel University: 7

Baskets on a significant slope or next to a dropoff: 8

Birdies: 1

High temperature on Friday: 80

Birdies on Acorn Park course playing two layouts at same time: 12

Dollars including tip for two bowls of Mongolian cooked vegetables with noodles and some shrimp served with rice: 40

Birdies at Lakewood Hills course played early Saturday morning after checking out of hotel: 4

Signs in northern Wisconsin endorsing eliminating an option for female reproductive treatment that my mother 18 months before I was born had in order to save her life: 4

High temp encountered on Saturday: 80

Times in 2025 visiting the Speedway advertised station at exit 69 to find out it is now Amoco: 2

Dollars to play Madison, WI Capitol Springs course: 8

Total open holes up or down the main hill: 13

Birdies including playing some from short tees: 6

Total new birdies from weekend: 28

Temp when home: 60

Total time in hours: 61

Hours from beginning of first of five played rounds to the end of the fifth: 50

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