Last night during our softball game, a guy on the other team broke his aluminum bat. The thing split right down the middle and half of it flew past third base. That’s not something you see everyday.
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Great Week
Quiet customers.
Raise!!!
HDTV?
Softball Champions!
Brewers game on Sunday.
Miller Park Doesn’t Sell Sunflower Seeds
How messed up is that? There were peanuts everywhere, but not a single sunflower seed. Anyway, we spent our evening last night at a Brewers’ game in Miller Park. I’ll have to say it’s a really nice facility, but they lose a few points for lack of my favorite snack. We chose to go to the game because they were playing the Royals, but we ended up rooting for Milwaukee anyway. I think we might go back a time or two.
Mother Nature, I Hate You
It’s Thursday. How do I know? Because our 3rd week of softball was rained out, which makes 4 games for us (1 week was a doubleheader).
In other news, we’re going to spend the weekend in Milwaukee. We’re going to the Brewers/Royals game on Saturday and probably the zoo and a few other places. It should be fun.
Going Down
We lost our chance to defend our championship title by bowling one of our worst nights of the season. Woohoo. Bring on the tournament play.
Holy !@#$
Session Average: 206
First Ball Average: 9.1
Open Frames: 5 (average 2 per game)
Spares: 9
Strikes: 17
Splits: 2 (1 converted)
Games: 195 211 214
Series: 620
Oh yeah…we won the championship. Thanks to Chris, Ken, Eric, Nolan, Joe, Chad, Jesse, and Matt for a great league season.
Update: Apparently my name was in the paper. They got my score wrong (625) which tied for tenth best series in our league for the night.
On to the Finals
Despite having the lowest averages and the worst record in the league, we’re headed to the finals! We all had at least two games well above average and banged out a victory in the first two games. We won the second by 185 pins!
The other team in the finals had an incredible third game tonight – three of their guys were over 240. Still, if we had played them tonight, we would have taken the first two games and the championship. I was a little nervous to start things off tonight, let’s hope I can relax next week. I’m looking forward to it.
Knockout!
Week one of the playoffs. We arrive to find that we’ve been matched up with the number one seed (the team from the bowling alley). We’re number eight of eight; but it didn’t matter.
We knocked off the number one seed!!
I honestly don’t even know what my scores were, I just know we held on to win the last game by five pins. It didn’t matter that Chris was robbed of nine pins by a technicality in the second game and we went on to lose that game by six. It didn’t matter that Eric was well below average all night. It didn’t matter that their third man had a 252 in the third. It didn’t matter that their anchor finished with six strikes in a row. It didn’t matter that we had an annoying audience for the last five frames.
All that mattered was Nolan’s finish: X X X 9.
Sweet.
Too Bad It’s Not Wednesday
Chris and I headed over to Wildcat Lanes tonight for Buck Night. We were both bowling way better than we have in the past few weeks. It would have been more fun with more people, but I can’t complain too muich. We both bowled well above our league averages, and I set a new high game of 223 with a series of 551! I still can’t believe more people don’t show up on Saturdays.
Gotta Love the Holidays
It’s a pretty busy time, but it’s one I really enjoy. My parents along with my sister and her boyfriend (who I finally got to meet) were up for Thanksgiving. We sort of hosted, and I think we did pretty well with it. I gave them a (limited) tour of Madison through the snow and slick streets. We also went bowling and saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The movie was pretty good, but there is no way Dumbledore would ever grab a student like that. I think Michael Gambon really missed the target with his portrayal of the headmaster this time around. A few other changes for the movie were mildly annoying, but overall it was really good. It was also nice to talk to my family for more than 30 minutes on the phone.
My bowling team has been doing pretty well lately. After the first seven or eight weeks, they reset the standings and since then we’re right around .500. My average is still going up (six pins in the last two weeks) and we’re third in our division. Bowling in the league is fun, but I think it’s a little too competitive for my taste, at least with my current performance where it is. I’ll probably try to get into a mixed league next summer.
So after losing every single coach’s challenge for the entire season, the Chiefs finally won not one but two today, one overturning a crucial play that helped them beat the Broncos. My three Chiefs fantasy players all did pretty well too which was nice, even if the rest of my players were lousy today. Oh, and the Bears handed Green Bay one of their bigger losses of the season. I am highly amused with the Packer’s total suckage this season, especially since I’m now surrounded by fans of The Pack.
I’m about 1/3 done with my Christmas and birthday shopping (both my mom and sister have birthdays within a week of Christmas). I’m hoping to have the rest done by the end of the week. I just have to figure out how to keep Amber’s hidden away until I can wrap them. This apartment isn’t that big. It is big enough, however, for a 6 foot Christmas tree. We went and got ours yesterday at a tree farm north of Madison. The place was OK, but I’ve been totally spoiled by Prairie Pines. It took quite a while but we eventually got it inside and decorated. It’s twinkling away as I speak (although it was an adventure finding some lights that did what we wanted).
I really think Amber and I could get into GeoCaching. It’s something I heard about on TWiT while I was listening at work this week. It sounds like lots of fun. I need to do some research on GPS units…
Edit: Here’s our tree. Happy Holidays!