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Three Little Things To Notice and Be Grateful For:
- Leftover Chinese food.
- Swiss Army knives.
- The Sony Walkman.
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The song in my head when I woke up: When You’re Gone, by Avril Lavigne
Favorite line from the song in my head when I woke up: When you’re gone/The pieces of my heart are missin’ you
Commute Tunes: No commute today. My drive to the chiropractor was done to the latest season of the Something Was Wrong podcast.
Something I’m looking forward to today: The start of my weekend getaway with Wifey Poo.
Something I’m looking forward to in the next seven days: Getting a pain injection in my neck that hopefully will work.
Something I’m grateful for from yesterday: Celebrating Boy The Younger’s birthday with the Fab Five.
What I’m writing: Yesterday’s Two Crappy Pages involved a story for a Johnny Boy Marketing client about a group of students who did a project for Walgreens on product development.
What I’ve written: Bringing AI to the Public Sector: Imagine a city where a resident posts on social media about a hazardous road condition, such as a large pothole, and tags the local Department of Transportation. That city’s social media monitoring system would instantly detect the post, process the information, and automatically generate a case management ticket.
Bowling shouldn’t be all that hard. There’s a mass of pins fairly close together that start 60 feet from the line that marks where you must release the ball. Sure, there are two gutters just waiting to capture errant shots, but it’s not like they run down the middle of the lane. They’re on the edges, and you should be able to avoid them.
Yesterday, BTY wanted to go bowling to celebrate his 15th birthday, and because my company is awesome and chose to recognize his special day as a holiday (or Juneteenth. Whatever), I was able to go as part of the Fab Five.
Here’s what I learned:
- I have an aversion to the headpin. Out of 20 frames, I hit it with my first shot maybe three times. I’m the master at being either just left or just right of it.
- My daughter-in-law looks rather elegant while bowling … and is pretty good at it to. She sort of prances up to the line before releasing it, and it tends to go where she wants it to go.
- BTY looks like he’s having a seizure when he throws a bowling ball. It’s the mess of lanky arms and legs flying this way and that, and he puts a tremendous amount of spin on the ball. Sometimes it actually works.
- Wifey Poo is the best first-game bowler in our group and the worst second-game bowler in the history of the sport.
- Boy The Elder retains the same competitiveness as a 22-year-old man that he had as a 5-year-old boy that forced me to cancel any and all future Family Game Nights after just two weeks and two groundings.
- Bumpers in bowling are for 3-year-olds and wimps. Kids need to learn about failure, and there’s little better to teach that than a string of zeroes that lead to a final score of less than 15.
Overall, it was a great family time, but none of us is going to be headed out on the Pro Bowlers Association tour any time soon.
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