I have a golf date today with several of the male faculty at BISS. We’re playing at Chaoyang Golf Club in the middle of Beijing. It’s a 9-hole course with 6 par 3’s and 3 par 4’s. We have a morning tee-time, and I arrive an hour early, in plenty of time to “warm-up” a little. As usual, I’m stiff, but the swimming I’ve been doing seems to have helped my flexibility.

We have a fun morning. Everybody plays pretty well. I shoot 2 over par, and hit the ball really well. I seem to play better when I haven’t played recently. I’m still not used to having a caddy carrying my clubs.

Back at the apartment, Judy has been working away at school stuff. She always enjoys a chance to knock items off her to-do list. We keep threatening to go somewhere and do something, but we never quite get it in gear. Eventually I leave for a swim session, and she joins me over at the Marriott later for dinner (using our 50% discount card). To finish off the day, we begin to watch Season 1, “House of Cards.” We finished “Lost” last Thursday night. One of Judy’s friends at school loaned her the DVD set for HOC It’s only 10 episodes. It may not last the week.