Took this picture when Osi was being real quiet in the back seat and I couldn't see him to know if he was awake or not.

We made it!

On April 1st, at about 11:30 pm (after a LONG day of labor), Isaiah Pierce Davis made his entrance into our lives. He is 7 lbs 12 oz and Raquel and I and our parents are falling more and more in love with him every day! We can't wait for ou to meet our son! [and yes, he's already been christened with his first gold pair of WV booties...it is game day after all]

-T.J.



Isaiah Pierce Davis
Born: April 1st, 2010 - 11:30 pm
Weight: 7 lbs 12 oz
Length: As of yet, unknown (don't ask)

So I was in Manhattan yesterday for an Infant/Child CPR class, but that's not what this post is about.

While in Manhattan, I felt like stopping off at Best Buy and window shopping a bit. Luckily there was one right next door to the CPR class, so I didn't have to venture out of my way to get my technology fix.

I looked at GPS units (need a new one for the car), then to iPhone accessories (why not?) then spent some time brushing up on television technology. In shopping (or more appropriately "hoping") for a new TV (someday), I have formed the following strategy...

First we'll get a smaller, but still nice, HDTV...maybe 32" or an affordable 40". Then when the time comes, that one will retire to a den or bedroom and a bigger model will take center stage. Now, in browsing Best Buy yesterday, I tried to stick to the smaller models...but I think we all know that didn't last very long...because quite frankly, it's no fun! I soon found myself in a small room, with 3 large HDTVs all belonging to the Best Buy Magnolia collection...

Oh yes, they rule.

I found my future center stager. The Samsung 46B8500...
This thing has what they are calling Auto Motion Plus. Don't get too excited, because it's really not much more than a 240 Hz refresh rate. But at the same time, it turns out, THAT is some to get excited about.

I found myself stepping back across the room to compare this beauty to another (not much lesser) model, which were both playing a sequence from the end of Transformers (I'm sure you'll admit, a visually impressive movie)...well let me tell you - some of the shots in the movie we so incredibly clear! The say that the Auto Motion Plus makes you feel like you're in the shot...at which point I typically roll my eyes...but the longer I watched, and the more I compared, the better it got...this TV is the best I've seen yet. It is full HD, super high contrast, and super fast refresh rate...I can't wait to see what they have in store when I'm ready to buy.

Until then, I'll have to settle for a dinky 32".

-T.J.

Best commercial ever:



-T.J.

I finally have a cool looking blog...you think so right? I have serious blog insecurity. Gotta make sure it looks cool, but unique at the same time.

So here I am again, making my first post in 9 months. I just don't get inspired by much I guess. But that's about to change. This is going to become my space, my outlet, my time on the web. It's going to be a place for me to develop passions if I don't have them already and to develop the ones I already have. (And yes, that means I'm going to blog about golf...some have philosophy, others theology, I have a little white ball and 14 sticks.)

I know there are people out there who care to learn about what I care about (Mari) and others who can already relate to my interest and growing expertise in the game on any number of levels, so here's a place where I'm going to write, ramble, and otherwise expose my views, knowledge, and theories on the game.

But not JUST that. I won't just bore you with that. I fully intend to make this a blog about my ever-changing life. There's Los Davises Live!, and that's for Raquel and I to do family blogging. This here is going to be my more personal blog. Where I hope you'll enjoy getting to know me as much as I enjoy getting to know myself.



-T.J.

Well, not quite passed. More like conditionally passed. The condition being that before I graduate the PGA's Professional Golf Management program, I have to return to the PAT battlefield and pass again, for real next time.
But in the mean time, it's true. I went down to WV and played on the good ol' track at the Pines CC. I forgot how short that course really is. Coming down the stretch I knew I could triple bogey the 18th in order to pass, and what do I do? I make it a closer call than necessary and make double bogey to shoot 82.
Man oh man. I could have kicked myself, too. I got off to such a bad start on the second round that I shot myself right out of the event and forfeited any chance at shooting 75 and passing for real. I never felt such focus on the golf course. I never realized just how micro you have to think out there. And now, looking back, I realize just how right Russell (Reid) was when he said "It's cumulative." He meant that the game, or any round in particular, is cumulative. You don't shoot a 79 on the first tee. Nor do you do it with a chip shot on the 8th hole. Nor do you do it with your last holed putt on 18. You shoot 79 (or any number for that matter) by narrowing your focus to each individual shot-each target and the method by which you will advance your ball in the direction of that target-and adding up those shots-ONCE THE ROUND IS OVER!
You don't even so much as determine the score on a par 3 with your tee shot (well, aside from the rare instance of a hole in one).  And even when the ball is holed for a 1,2, or 3, or more, what good is it?  It's 3 (if it's a par), that's it!  You might as well not even think of it as par, or birdie, or good or bad.  It's just a group of 3 shots that can't be taken away.  They've been recorded just the same as the middle 3 shots of a par 5 are recorded.  And you know what? Once you sink the putt for par, you just have to go tee it up and hit another shot, and another shot, and another shot...until you've holed it 18 glorious times.

An interesting conversation came up last night about performance enhancing drugs in the world of golf. I continued to think about it some and decided to publish.

PEDs in golf probably once seemed out of the question, but nowadays, not so much. With fitness and athleticism becoming an increasing fad in golf - see Villegas, Woods, and others - it's speculated that the use of PEDs in order to gain a competitive edge in the future will be a likely temptation for some players.

Gary Player, one of golf's greats, is convinced that at least 10% of the pro golf population is using. He has first hand knowlege of at least one case, though he is sworn to secrecy as to who. On the other hand, players like Tiger and Phil are not aware of the use of PEDs on tour.

In the middle of last summer (mid-PGA season) there was rumors and news of random drug testing on the PGA tour. Tiger encouraged it, Player too. Additionally, I heard amature rumors that one top golfer conveniently went down with a knee injury around the same time as random testing. Now, if Tiger's 9 month vacation was intended as a detox, I hope his recent return to form at Bay Hill might aid in dispelling that theory. Specualtions were also made that Vijay Singh could perhaps be using. Now, I don't pay very close attention to Vijay, other than knowing that he's a workhorse on the range and practice green, but given his natural size and frame, the effects of PEDs in the dosage size that would benefit golfers (they're not fighting 300 lb. linemen down the field - a golf club weighs 400 g, tops!) could easily hide in his structure.

Now I'm not here to point fingers, or to speculate who's guilty and who's clean. I'm a naturally trusting person to begin with...I give people the benefit of the doubt until they show me otherwise, and that goes here, too.
I do agree, though, that given the direction the sport is heading, with guys like Camillo taking up cycling andTiger being Tiger, it won't take much for someone to come along just slightly weaker-willed than they are and start injecting something in the locker room before a round to see if they can keep up til Sunday afternoon.

In the end, while I don't doubt that there is a temptation out there, I guess I just feel like golfers are made of better stuff. Who expects to find a golfer, who on one hand assesses his own penalties, tarnishing the valor and character of the game and gamesmen in his very midst with HGH, Testosterone, or Xanax (calms your nerves over that crucial putt, doesn't it?)

-T.J.