I wrote my column for Thursday’s paper on my first golf lesson, and in it I talk about how I used to argue with my old friend Brian Robin, who’s handling media for the Toshiba Classic tournament this week, about whether golf is a sport or a game.

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Ever have one of those days you feel like you’re losing your mind. No wait, let me rephrase that. You wish you’d lose your mind so you wouldn’t have to deal with the reality of all the work sitting in front of you. We’re down a couple of editors and a reporter so I’m pitching in a lot more than usual. It didn’t help I stayed out too late on a school night to go bowling Monday (and posted miserable scores on top of that).

When I got to work today I scrambled to put our game plan of stories for the next day’s paper together then rushed over to Costa Mesa City Hall for a long-ago scheduled meeting with the city’s various public information officers (Thank God for those Outlook reminders). They invited me and a couple of journalists from the OC Register. We had a really constructive conversation about how we can better work together. It was a terrific idea. While on the one hand, since reporters are meant to be government’s watchdogs, there’s a bit of an adversarial relationship there, but on the other hand I think of us all as public servants trying to give you as much information as possible. I look forward to more of these meetings.

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I have more than 9,000 songs on my iPod so far.

I have many more to still download.

As regular readers already know, I was a rock critic some years back during the glorious post-Nirvana boom days.

And as my longtime friends know, I am an inveterate snob (well, just like them actually).

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