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lance_sibleyBowling started up again tonight for the new season. Walking tomorrow will be a chore, I think. :(
I didn't do that well - I had meant to get a practice session or two in during the summer, but somehow chairing a con, co-chairing another, and attending two more requiring travel got in the way. My first game was okay - 159 - but then I bowled 114 and 136. Ick. In that second game, breaking 100 was looking shaky - I only had one mark in the first seven frames, a spare in the fourth. Fortunately I managed a strike and a spare late in the game.
The evening started off with a shock - the Friday VP was making announcements, and apparently our league treasurer, Jacques, passed away suddenly in June. He was a young guy - possibly even younger than me, though I'm not sure. Apparently he was at a tournament when he noticed a lump on his side. The next day it had moved up to his neck. When he returned to Toronto he went to a doctor, and it was found to be cancer. Two weeks later, he was dead - they hadn't even had a chance to start chemotherapy yet.
He wasn't a close friend by any stretch, but he was someone I knew and liked.
The rest of my day was good, though. I met up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
redeem147 at a Tim Horton's near the bank where she works to deliver her autographed Mickey Rooney photo. We must have sat there talking about various stuff for two hours - IIRC, it was after 4 when I got home, and we'd met up just before 2.
It was also nice to seeh8torun and Mario again after not having seen them all summer - Randy, of course, I had lunch with yesterday. Our fifth team member from last year had declined to make the move from Wednesdays to Fridays with us, but the person the league assigned to our team wasn't there tonight. We had someone fill in, but I don't know if she's just temporary (she said she would be bowling with us again next week) or if she's supposed to be permanently replacing the other person.
I have to say that I was a little disappointed with the lack of eye candy in the Friday session of the league. There was one guy, bowling about ten lanes away, whom I thought was kind of cute.h8torun agreed that he was kind of cute, albeit in that geeky way that I like. She and Randy tried to get me to go over and introduce myself, but I thought that would be a little out of the blue. I can wait until my team bowls against (or near) his, though this time I won't wait until the last night of the season like I did last year with John MacEachern, only to find out that he'd started seeing someone before I got up the nerve to ask him out.
There are also some people who were there tonight who also bowl on Wednesdays, so it's not as though there was nobody there I knew apart from my teammates. Nobody whom I'm particularly close to, though.
Oh, I did have one funny thing happen tonight - a woman whom I know slightly because she used to bowl on Wednesdays as well came over and asked if I did TV commercials. Apparently she had thought that the PC guy in the Mac-versus-PC commercials was me. She didn't believe me when I said that it wasn't. I'm not sure how to take that... I think I'm thinner and have more hair. (There's also the whole thing that he has brown hair, and I've been dying my hair blond for three years - and yet she kept insisting...)
And finally, from the SMOFS list earlier today: the California legislature introduced a bill a couple of weeks ago deploring the demotion of Pluto to dwarf planet status. Here's the bill itself. I particularly liked the clauses that stated that downgrading Pluto would cause psychological harm to Californians questioning their place in the universe (see line 3) and that it would reduce the number of planets available for legislative leaders to hide redistricting
legislation and other inconvenient political reform measures (line 17).
I didn't do that well - I had meant to get a practice session or two in during the summer, but somehow chairing a con, co-chairing another, and attending two more requiring travel got in the way. My first game was okay - 159 - but then I bowled 114 and 136. Ick. In that second game, breaking 100 was looking shaky - I only had one mark in the first seven frames, a spare in the fourth. Fortunately I managed a strike and a spare late in the game.
The evening started off with a shock - the Friday VP was making announcements, and apparently our league treasurer, Jacques, passed away suddenly in June. He was a young guy - possibly even younger than me, though I'm not sure. Apparently he was at a tournament when he noticed a lump on his side. The next day it had moved up to his neck. When he returned to Toronto he went to a doctor, and it was found to be cancer. Two weeks later, he was dead - they hadn't even had a chance to start chemotherapy yet.
He wasn't a close friend by any stretch, but he was someone I knew and liked.
The rest of my day was good, though. I met up with
redeem147 at a Tim Horton's near the bank where she works to deliver her autographed Mickey Rooney photo. We must have sat there talking about various stuff for two hours - IIRC, it was after 4 when I got home, and we'd met up just before 2.It was also nice to see
h8torun and Mario again after not having seen them all summer - Randy, of course, I had lunch with yesterday. Our fifth team member from last year had declined to make the move from Wednesdays to Fridays with us, but the person the league assigned to our team wasn't there tonight. We had someone fill in, but I don't know if she's just temporary (she said she would be bowling with us again next week) or if she's supposed to be permanently replacing the other person.I have to say that I was a little disappointed with the lack of eye candy in the Friday session of the league. There was one guy, bowling about ten lanes away, whom I thought was kind of cute.
h8torun agreed that he was kind of cute, albeit in that geeky way that I like. She and Randy tried to get me to go over and introduce myself, but I thought that would be a little out of the blue. I can wait until my team bowls against (or near) his, though this time I won't wait until the last night of the season like I did last year with John MacEachern, only to find out that he'd started seeing someone before I got up the nerve to ask him out.There are also some people who were there tonight who also bowl on Wednesdays, so it's not as though there was nobody there I knew apart from my teammates. Nobody whom I'm particularly close to, though.
Oh, I did have one funny thing happen tonight - a woman whom I know slightly because she used to bowl on Wednesdays as well came over and asked if I did TV commercials. Apparently she had thought that the PC guy in the Mac-versus-PC commercials was me. She didn't believe me when I said that it wasn't. I'm not sure how to take that... I think I'm thinner and have more hair. (There's also the whole thing that he has brown hair, and I've been dying my hair blond for three years - and yet she kept insisting...)
And finally, from the SMOFS list earlier today: the California legislature introduced a bill a couple of weeks ago deploring the demotion of Pluto to dwarf planet status. Here's the bill itself. I particularly liked the clauses that stated that downgrading Pluto would cause psychological harm to Californians questioning their place in the universe (see line 3) and that it would reduce the number of planets available for legislative leaders to hide redistricting
legislation and other inconvenient political reform measures (line 17).
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Date: 2006-09-09 03:59 pm (UTC)My friend Gordie consistantly get's mistaken for Adam Brody. Sometimes people get VERY insistant and accuse him of lying when he says he isn't. It's really weird. :P
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Date: 2006-09-09 11:23 pm (UTC)Thanks. :) This is someone I've never really spent that much time with, and in fact, except for the annual banquet, I haven't seen her in a few years (since she moved from Wednesdays to Fridays a few years ago), so I can forgive her.
My friend Gordie consistantly get's mistaken for Adam Brody. Sometimes people get VERY insistant and accuse him of lying when he says he isn't. It's really weird. :P
Looking at the pictures on his IMDb profile, there are worse people to be mistaken for. ;)
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Date: 2006-09-10 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-10 05:16 am (UTC)I don't know if I'll ever get to see Hollywoodland. I haven't been to a movie in months, and I'm not terribly motivated. (Heck, I missed Revenge of the Sith and X3.)