Took my first swings with the new clubs on Saturday and hit 3 buckets of balls. I had no idea what I was doing, hit probably 3/4 quarters of them straight…. left. Today I discovered about 350 new muscles, all of them introducing themselves rather stiffly. I hope “Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf” arrives soon.

Mike (who hooked me up this week) is at the Masters right now. He doesn’t know it yet, but he’s blogging it. I’m pretty sure he has his camera with him so I’m sure we’ll see some pics soon.

My main man Mike .NET hooked me up big time today with a set of irons from Cobra, a dozen balls from Titleist and a FootJoy bag. Now I just need to learn how to play golf.

On a related note, today at MINDSEYE we announced our new Content Management product, called Element. Titleist, FootJoy.com, FootJoy.co.uk, FootJoy.com.fr, FootJoy.de, FootJoy.nu (and soon Cobra Golf and Scotty Cameron) are using the ASP version of the product. I know we’ll have more information about the product in the coming weeks, but, gosh darn it, we’re pumped!

MountainDew® LiveWire, coming to a soda fountain near you.

Spent the majority of the day at Joe and Amy’s wedding at Park Street and reception at Les Zygomates Wine Bar & Bistro. Beautiful wedding and great food. I only wish I could be on my way to Kauai for a honeymoon. The forecast in Boston called for ‘Light Ice Pellets’.

The baseball season begins today with the Angels taking on the Rangers. Catch it on ESPN.

John writes that “… blogging is almost recreational — it’s hard to point to a solid return-on-investment for the time.” I don’t work at a large enterprise so I can’t comment on ROI at the business level, but personally, blogging is great way of saving and then reusing the knowledge you gain on a daily basis (how to use rsync, getting servlets to reload…). How many times do you think to yourself “I remember doing that once, but where did I write it down?” I used to use Outlook for this, but searching your Outlook hierarchy is excruciatingly s l o w. If you have a blog, you probably wrote about it in your blog, which you can then use full text searching to retrieve in a matter of seconds. I can get my job done faster. That’s ROI. Course, the same thing applies to people that I work with. I’ll get an email from someone about JSP Coding Standards and I can point them here because I remember writing about it. Other people get their job done faster.

Dave has only driven halfway across the country in 3 days…. Pffhaw.. when Karen and I moved to Boston from Cali in 2000, we made it from Orange County, CA to Boston, MA in 4 days. Total. Balls out Dave.

On a personal note, Karen and I just got back from a long weekend in NYC.. we took the Fung Wah bus from Boston’s Chinatown to NYC’s Chinatown Friday morning ($15 per person each way, a steal!) and arrived a little after noon. Per a friends suggestion, we went to Times Square and got a couple tickets for 42nd Street and then moseyed on to have a cupcake at the Cupcake Cafe. Checked into the hotel, went to the show, had dinner at Les Halles (where we sat 2 tables away from Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale… behind us was Angela from ‘The Bachelor‘ !!!!). Saturday we had a late breakfast, went to Chelsea Market to look at cooking stuff for Karen and then took the ferry over to see my grandparents in Staten Island. They took us to Pal Joey’s for some fabulous Italian food and then I got my grandpa to break out the 20 year slide projector and watch slides from the 50’s and 60’s. Took the bus back today… New York city is a really fun place.

Karen and I are going to NYC this weekend to hang and to see my grandparents in Staten Island. I *know* some of you have been to New York, got any suggestions for dinner on Friday night?