nathan jara

This past weekend, I attended for the third year in a row the World Golf Championships Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio. The PGA Tour event takes place at Firestone Country Club every year. This year, Hunter Mahan was awarded the cup with his twelve under par championship performance. I walked the course during the Saturday round of competition. The tournament was a great time once again this year. It’s so cool to go and see the pros in person. Every time I get the chance to see a live event, I’m continually impressed with how easy these guys make it look. Driving the ball, irons, chipping and putting look so effortless, then I go out on the course and find a different result :P Just seeing the golf course is fun too. The fairways and greens are so well manicured and maintained providing a beautiful backdrop to the golfing. Now I know that there aren’t too many people that get excited about watching golf, but I really think that if you haven’t been to a golf tournament in person, you’d enjoy it more than you think.

Tonight’s one of those nights when I’m clearly, or rather unclearly, reminded of what living in Pittsburgh means for star gazing; it doesn’t happen. The clouds and city lights are blocking my view from the night sky tonight, most unfortunately, as I was hoping to catch a glimpse of the latest coronal mass ejection hitting earth. Coronal mass ejections, which are huge eruptions on the sun’s surface, get thrown into space and eventually can come in contact with earth, producing auroras. NASA has reported that this event in particular is one of the largest in a while. Oh well, I guess I’ll have to catch the next one. In the mean time, maybe I’ll have better luck catching these ejections, but then again, they seem to be kind of poopy today too ;)