I've been very volatile with golf lately. On Sunday I had one of the craziest rounds ever; a nightmare start and then played extremely well from hole 5 onwards (minus hole 9 and 18) to still record an okay final Stableford score (30). My putting really saved the day. I hit some nice lag putts and dropped a couple of bombs for par.

I was actually on track for my lowest ever back 9 score with all pars from 10-15, bogey on 16, par 17 (so +1 though 8) but then a disappointing pickup on 18.

Some notes:

• I need to try and hit more fairways, I've been quite streaky off the tee
• I should try and go down to the range at least once a week, focus on getting tee shots in the fairway and hitting solid irons
• When I'm getting a bit messy off the tee it's usually a right to left hook, I think if I weaken my grip a little bit this could help, I'm still getting into good spots when I hit good tee shots with my 4 hybrid even off the blue tees so I don't think club choice is necessarily the problem
• To help with the grip issue I'm getting this, I should do regular practice with it
• I will eventually purchase a new 5 wood for my bag, I'm also currently getting my pitching wedge fixed as it broke on a round a few weeks ago (I accidentally swung the club into a tree and it snapped) so I need to think about where my money is going

This is the first post I'm writing from my new work MacBook Pro.

These are the specifications.

Name: M5 Max chip
Storage: 2TB
RAM: 64GB
CPU: 18 core
GPU: 40 core

I'm pretty happy to have a new piece of tech. It is also incredibly expensive right now. The number is kind of scary (A$7,899.00).

I also got the space black (but more of a dark grey) colour option. It's pretty nice.

Some more pups photos from this week.

I made a small change to my ub script that uploads posts to my blog that will now allow for .txt files. Sometimes when I'm writing I find it easiest to just open a new TextEdit window and quickly type out a post. I feel like for me it's the best way to write more.

The last 2 World Cup based podcasts have been excellent. I kind of love listening to someone who isn't the biggest football fan (like me) examine these World Cup games. I'm pumped for the quarter finals. Hoping England can get through.

This is the end of an era. The Mac Pro has been such a weird product for a few years now. Good to see that the slate has been wiped clean.

They've had a fun week together.

This is genuine hype. The characters and the competitiveness; such entertaining content.

This was one of the best games of football I've ever seen. What an incredible win for England. Still be very tricky to go all the way but you never know.

Yep this sounds good. Hopefully it's in the September direct.

This will likely be my most disappointing game of all time. They screwed it up so bad.

This has been another excellent podcast listen from Sports Bizarre. The amount of sheer corruption and crime FIFA engaged in over the last 80 years is a joke.

She's an old girl now.

Excited to watch all of this. Seems like its been done in a way that's very natural to YouTube and benefits from its strengths.

I watched Batman Begins last night for the first time in ages and it still holds up as such a fantastic movie. The whole water supply poisoning story is really well written.

This style of video from both Bryson and Rick is really cool. The deep analysis into each swing and the kind of shot they were going for is really interesting.

This is such a cool little computer. Such a shame that computer parts cost so much right now. AI is awesome but the fact that it's making component prices so expensive is really sad.

A few photos of Spud over the last few weeks.

This was the best Casey video I've seen in years. An epic story.

This is great news but I'm curious to see the full details.