Author: Steve

    With a hoodie.   Look how much he likes it!  

  The golf cart has all these little storage slots in the dash.   An oddity of the top center slot is that the stop at the back only goes half-way up.  If you put something in it, you have to be careful to keep it low, so it doesn’t just go past the stop and fall down into an inaccessible hole.   Well if something can go wrong, you know it’s only a matter of time until it does, and our time ran out.  Now we had to retrieve something valuable from the innards of the golf cart but didn’t know how far down that was or how to get there.  A good place to start would be to remove the drink holder and see if that gave us access.  We could tell that the top of the drink holder was a separate piece, but there were clearly releases to get past that would let it lift out.  I couldn’t figure them out.  I could just overpower it with screwdrivers and leverage, but I wanted the drink holder to still be usable after I was done.  What to do?   Ask the Google!  “Removing drink holder from EZ Go golf cart.”  Guess what.  There is a youtube video precisely for removing the drink holder from our golf cart.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7x4gZXuxRA  1:17   Knowing where to press while pulling on the drink holder, it popped right out, the cellphone was right there in plain sight, we retrieved it, and our lives are in order again.  All credit to the Google!   As a bonus, we found a letter from 2017 that had gotten dropped in there and never recovered.  

  If you’re looking for a particular bird, it helps to know which habitat that bird favors.   If you look in the right place you can often find plenty of them.   It’s all about knowing where the birds like to be.   Bronzed Cowbirds.      

    I round a corner and to my surprise. There is a gator lying in the trail.   Not a little gator. This is a very big gator.   Usually I see them in the water like this.   It turns out there is water within about a hundred yards of where I came across this beast.  Not knowing that at the time though, I was totally surprised by this find.  I have to say that finding an alligator on the same trail I’m walking, is significantly more intimidating than seeing one in the water from the safety of a boardwalk.   I decided to walk a different trail that day.  

  Watching college football on Saturday, I was amazed to see a kickoff returner signal for a fair-catch at his own 2 yard line.  Why would he do that; make a fair catch at the 2 and pin his team there, instead of letting the ball careen into the end zone for a touchback?  Then the television broadcaster announced that the receiver had elected for a touchback.  What?  How was that a touchback and not a fair catch?   It turns out, over the off-season, they made up a new rule in college football so anywhere inside their own 25 yard line, the kickoff receiver can signal for a fair catch which is then treated as a touchback and the ball comes out to the 25 yard-line; and no one even checked with me, or informed me!   Who knew?   I had to look it up.  This is part of the overall effort to reduce high speed head-on collisions in football.