Monday - January 12, 2009

Movin’ On Up

Not to the east side, but in the standings. Another great night at bowling league. We took all 7. Again. For the 3rd week in a row. We’ve gone from 13th to 11th to 8th, and tonight’s win might put us up into 7th place. Which is pretty cool, since we aren’t that great and we’re only somewhat serious. We like to have fun. Those super serious guys are no fun. Especially the ones who get all upset when they don’t make a strike, boo hoo, and have to stamp and scowl and kick things. Screw that.

So we gave the other team 61 pins, but managed to win the 1st game by 15. Then we rolled better, and won the 2nd game by 50 and some. They did pretty well in the 3rd, and it was very close for most of the frames, with our friend Melissa throwing a 200 game, or nearly one (she only started bowling last summer), but in the end we squeaked past them and won by about 25. I’ll know later tonight if we advanced, since Dutch does such a nice job of Secretary and gets the scores posted really quick. [update: we earned 7th place! And M didn’t make her 200. I thought she did because she had 5 X in a row followed by /, but I guess her other frames were opens]

But conditions were terrible tonight. No, not the lanes. They were great. The air. Apparently there’s this drain in the restaurant kitchen right behind the lanes we were on, and it gets backed up or something. P. U. We were acting like 12 year olds, making poopy jokes and checking the old guys for brown stains all night. It was VILE. So I sure hope they get that pipe cleaned out. I suggest a few hundred gallons of Clorox™ to kill whatever is rotting away in there.

We had a little ceremony before league. It was nice. I thought Rob owned the place; after all he’s the boss. It turns out that the alley is still owned by his dad, and has been in business for 50 years as of this week. Good for them.

Ok, that’s about it. I bowled Ok tonight. Not great, but not bad; I threw a 503 series, which is just a hair above my average. And that was good enough. But I did most of it using my old “spaz ball” throw, because I just can’t get my hand to work right. I threw 1 perfect late breaking big hook ball tonight, and it just blew the pins right off the rack. It drove right out to the 3 board at about 45 feet, turned, and raced right into the pocket. Amazing. And I don’t have a clue how it happened. But it felt so right coming off my hand, like I wasn’t doing anything at all. They always tell me “let the ball do the work” and I just can’t seem to let that happen.



So, anything exciting happen while I was out? What, peanut butter causes salmonella poisoning? Not my brand I hope. China cracks down on the internet, and shuts down nearly 100 web sites? Oh sure, it was all porn. Except they probably define “porn” as not agreeing with the chicom government. Obama is going to close Gitmo during his first week in office? Better start shooting them bastards right away then. So, in other words, same old same old.

Ah, here we go, Israel is sweeping into the Gaza suburbs, and has practically eliminated “the military wing of Hamas”. Threatening the little rats with “an iron fist”. Awesome. Um, except all of Hamas is it’s “military wing” as far as I’m concerned. Hurry up, IDF, you’ve got another week, two at the most. Then back off, and keep the ground you’ve taken. Forever. OTOH, the great and might Ozama won’t be able to do much against them for at least a month. So never mind: keep the fight moving forward.

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