twinkletoes in the house

So as predicted, I only got to bowl one game on Wednesday night. I was off to a terrible start, with 9's in each of the first four frames, before I underwent a suspicious Bonds-like performance leap beginning in frame 5 -- I got three straight strikes and finished with a 169, winning a ten dollar bet with a co-worker who finished with a 163. I didn't get a spare the whole game, making it kind of remarkable that I did as well as I did. The 200 game will have to wait. The winner of bowldat2 is Deion, who guessed a 168. Ten well-played kwachas to him.

After the bowling, a bunch of the younger people (that does not include me, btw) decided to head out to The Bar. Part of me was jealous. My days at The Bar, and the unspeakable thrills that went along with 'em, are clearly over. That's one kind of fun that I just don't have anymore, and it was a major one for me for about fifteen years. It has been replaced by the fun of coming home and seeing my beautiful baby giggling at me. I swear to you that I am happy about this personal evolution. My advice to people who are still living the life of The Bar is: enjoy it now, enjoy it often, and enjoy it with every last crumpled dollar bill in your drinkin' pants. Because when the days of The Bar end, you will inevitably wish you had rocked out just a little bit more while you could.

May I suggest a bowling outing at some point down the line, babies and kids welcome?

As for yesterday's Creative Comment Challenge (CCC), it was a tight race, and the responses were lots of fun so I thnk we may do it again someday. I am going to give Pete the Grand Kwacha Mas Fina Genius Points (8 in total) for his tale of deli-karate, and I am also going to toss 5 GP's to each of the following competitors:

isired
deion
dipak
mdilly
mrsSmal
crsmal (for dreaming of verbungle)

Thanks folks.

Things are looking up at work. The hard days are over for awhile and I plan on watching at least part of several NCAA games Thursday and Friday (I have a TV at my desk!). God bless the NCAA tournament. God bless you!

I feel like eating Burritoville.

We will have a new edition of HSSS for you very shortly. This week's episode featured a 1983 first round playoff matchup between the Knicks and Nets. I've watched a little already, and it's wildly entertaining. Guys then played so randomly, like nobody was keeping track.

For eight GP's (no googlin'), who was the first person to run a sub-4:00 mile? Hint: it's not Deion. For five more, tell me what the current world record is for the mile? We want minutes seconds and hundredths, closest guess gets the points. Again, no googling, you googling motherfuckers.