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| Tuesday, February 22, 2005 |
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Going out on top 
| | So I figure I haven't been bowling in 25, 30 years. And I wasn't much good when I did much bowling. In those days (mostly in New Jersey, which I left in 1974), scoring was on sheets of paper, or on transparent film that lay on overhead projectors that never worked. All the balls were black and the machinery was by AMF or Brunswick. (Do they still exist?) The shoes were lace-up and stank. And I was never much good. Bowling in the 120s or 130s was a good game for me. I doubt I ever beat anybody who could actually play the game. |
| | Anyway, I figured 1) I'm old, and 2) I have arthritis, so 3) I'd suck. Sure enough, I bowled 89 in the first game. Worse, they had these barriers in the gutters, so the kiddies wouldn't bowl zeroes. About half my score was banked off the barriers. My score was about in the middle of the pack, mostly of second graders, plus a couple of younger sibs and one other parent, who had a broken thumb but bowled anyway. Then in the second game I bowled this: |
| | Full disclosure: The 1 in the 7th frame was right at the edge of being a gutter ball, but the barrier kept it in. So, knock a 1 off he score and it's still a 171 (woops, 169). Either way, it felt pretty damn good. Might have even been my highest score ever. |
| | So, with that, I think I'll announce my retirement from the game. |
Not as much as when the rest of us make a zero-dollar investment in the same thing
| | Forbes: Stopping the Presses. What does it mean for news when The New York Times and Dow Jones place a billion-dollar bet on the Internet? said the email I just got. |
Wherezat again?
| | Lessee... A bunch of ya'll (links coming) guessed correctly that yesterday's Wherezat was Heavenly, the ski resort above South Lake Tahoe. |
| | I have a story about that, which I'll tell later, after I'm back from taking the kid bowling. |
| | Anyway, that was an easy one. Today's isn't. In fact, I just spent way too much time figuring out exactly where it is. But I do believe I got it right. See if you know more than I did until a few minutes ago. |
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