Happy 101st post!  Happy Masters’ Week and welcome to Augusta, world.  Don’t buy from scalpers who are not smoking or drinking – likely undercovers…

Billy Payne announced today that next year, on the Sunday before the tournament, the National will host a youth golf tournament of sorts.  There will be year-round qualifications across the country, culminating with a visit to the finest course on earth.  If you have a young golfer, get them involved.  If you own a hotel on Washington Road, you get to jack up the rates a day or so early.  Win-win.

The world mourns the loss of Baroness Margaret Thatcher today.  The Iron lady was 87.  She was one of the four people probably most responsible for the end of the Soviet Union; she is pre-deceased by Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul, II, only Mikhail Gorbachev remains from that club.

This weekend I hit the gym extra hard, I’m paying for it right now.  Saturday I worked the fire out of my arms.  I broke a personal record!  Yesterday it was back and chest.  I was already feeling sore when I reported back to the crazy room this morning for more torture.  You guessed it, arms and back.  Ha, ha, ha…  After that I stepped up to the punching bag for 15 or so minutes (even brought my own gloves).  Fortunately, when I was finished I discovered a massage therapist was working compliments of EFC (another reason to love the place).  Saturday they had complimentary pineapple chicken.  The chicken was excellent but I prefer the massage. 

While I was in the funny massage chair the girl remarked that I had a lot of muscle mass to get through.  I like remarks like that.  I also dropped another pound, landing at 187.  My body mass index has fallen from the low-end of the “obese” category to the low-end of “overweight.”  However, I have cut my body fat to about 13% (Lord knows what it was – I estimate 30% or so) – that’s in the “athletic” range.  Accordingly, I do not mind being a little “overweight” since it’s all muscle.  I’m just getting started.

If I can successfully incorporate boxing/martial arts into the program, I may call it The Batman Workout, unless that would infringe a copyright or something. 

More to come soon.