12/17/2025 - Splinter Group - The Running of the Cans
Dec 17 was the date of the annual Running of the Cans, a Splinter Group tradition dating back hundreds, tens even five years. Each Christmas season the runners and ruckers…
Pax: Robin Hood
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10/29/2025 - Splinter Group - Rain, Rain, go away…at least for 45 minutes
11 brave souls thumbed their nose at the consistent rain we have been experiencing and made it out to this week’s edition of Splinter Group. Remarkably the rain held off…
10/22/2025 - Splinter Group - Swimming the Floodplain
A beautiful morning for that eclectic thing called Splinter Group to tip off. We are in that fun time of year where it is neither too cold nor too hot…
10/08/2025 - Splinter Group - Trying not to embarrass Valdez
Splinter is an unusual animal in that once the bell sounds pax take off in multiple directions never to be seen again until we reconvene at 6:15ish. The Q who…
10/01/2025 - Splinter Group - Seek out flat land, lad, seek out the flat land
Those who post in Myers Park know that flat land is hard to come by. I guess that is why there aren’t many wheat and barley fields along Queens Road.…
08/27/2025 - Splinter Group - You can go your own way!
Fleetwood Mac taught us that going out on your own is the method of choice for a dysfunctional rock band but we found out today that that method doesn’t work…
08/27/2025 - Splinter Group - You Can Go Your Own Way
Fleetwood Mac taught us the value of going your own way and finding yourself which might work well in a rock and roll band but not so much in a…
11/29/2022 - Achilles Last Stand - Don’t call it a comeback
There are those that would say me writing a back blast is like Tom Brady unretiring. Or the Eagles doing another tour. Or maybe even Henry Kissinger running for office.…
05/24/2022 - Achilles Last Stand - Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Having spent the last couple of days studying the meteorological prediction models I realized that there was a good chance that dreaded rain may settle in on fashionable South Charlotte…
05/15/2022 - *CORE* - Over The Hills Team Not Yet Over The Hill
The Over The Hills (OTH) King of the Hills team was a super selective group of HIM. 1st: your year of birth had to be <=1960. 2nd: you had to…