Footage of some things that should never be done on or off a golf course (hat tip ES). Some of these are kind of painful to watch (and likely wouldn’t have been attempted without copious amounts of liquid courage being consumed).

It’s been another warm spring around here (Bozeman, MT) and people were again playing golf in March which is kind of unusual. Ski season ends this week and the furnace will surely appreciate some downtime over the next seven months.

This Fiscal Times story is almost two months old, but I just couldn’t delete it from the drafts folder given my borderline OCD that flares up from time to time:

The Useless Penny Wins a Floor Vote of Confidence

How many pennies does it take to tile a bedroom floor?

In the case of one crafty Chicago couple, about 60,000. Their mantra: “They say it takes a village. We say it takes a bottle of wine and some OCD.”

It might be an unusual way to save on home furnishing costs in an extremely tough economy – but overall the project cost the couple, Ryan Lange and Emily Belden, about $1,000. They say they’d been “looking up options [for their bedroom floor] and were thinking about being green” – then decided to go the penny route after Lange, an entrepreneur and self-described design “freak,” suggested they “just tile the floor in pennies,” starting with a long-ignored jar of pennies.

Belden, a freelance copy editor, says she wasn’t sold on the notion at first – but then “came home one day and found a small corner done, so I thought, ‘I guess we’re doing it,’” she recalled.

The painstaking coin work took four months and 128 hours to cover their 234-square-foot plywood floor, say the couple, who created a blog about their project called thepennyfloor.com.

That floor must get pretty cold in the winter (and the dog doesn’t seem too happy about it)…