Written on 1-25-14.
One of the best and most wonderful things in my life happened today. I was at Eric’s Big-O Tire, hanging out in the waiting room while our GMC truck was getting lubed across the street at the new Big-O Quick Lube, working on the official birdie and eagle count when I hit a huge roadblock, coming to a dead end at the close of Golf Diary-Part 3 and the beginning of Golf Diary-Part 4.
Part 3 ended in May of 2004, and Part 4 started at the end of 2005. I was missing over a year and a half somewhere, everything from May of 2004 and the entire year of 2005! It made no sense to me; I was certain I had continued one right after the other, but somehow a huge chunk was missing.
I went home, scrambling to find it. I turned on the Mac Mini and hooked up the external hard drive. I opened them up from there and got the same result. Then I remembered...
I had printed out the beginning parts of my journal years ago and had stored them away neatly in our computer room closet. Sure enough, I found the printed versions of Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.
Thankfully and miraculously, the rest of Part 3 was still there, the entire section that was missing.
I remember writing in a later Golf Diary that I knew I was missing out on some important parts of my journey, specifically a section I had written about our family’s trip to Zion National Park. Yet, there it was...and so much more. Today, I have found a missing piece of our family’s history and my golf journey (a piece I didn’t even know was really gone until now) that would have been lost forever had I not somehow printed it out nearly a decade ago. Phew!
Now the hard work of retyping it all begins. I don’t care; it’s worth it. Included are sacred Lake Powell and cabin stories, thirty or so birdies, and much, much more, approximately 250 pages worth.
One of the best and most wonderful things in my life happened today. I was at Eric’s Big-O Tire, hanging out in the waiting room while our GMC truck was getting lubed across the street at the new Big-O Quick Lube, working on the official birdie and eagle count when I hit a huge roadblock, coming to a dead end at the close of Golf Diary-Part 3 and the beginning of Golf Diary-Part 4.
Part 3 ended in May of 2004, and Part 4 started at the end of 2005. I was missing over a year and a half somewhere, everything from May of 2004 and the entire year of 2005! It made no sense to me; I was certain I had continued one right after the other, but somehow a huge chunk was missing.
I went home, scrambling to find it. I turned on the Mac Mini and hooked up the external hard drive. I opened them up from there and got the same result. Then I remembered...
I had printed out the beginning parts of my journal years ago and had stored them away neatly in our computer room closet. Sure enough, I found the printed versions of Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.
Thankfully and miraculously, the rest of Part 3 was still there, the entire section that was missing.
I remember writing in a later Golf Diary that I knew I was missing out on some important parts of my journey, specifically a section I had written about our family’s trip to Zion National Park. Yet, there it was...and so much more. Today, I have found a missing piece of our family’s history and my golf journey (a piece I didn’t even know was really gone until now) that would have been lost forever had I not somehow printed it out nearly a decade ago. Phew!
Now the hard work of retyping it all begins. I don’t care; it’s worth it. Included are sacred Lake Powell and cabin stories, thirty or so birdies, and much, much more, approximately 250 pages worth.
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