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dejavu:
The new ball sounds exciting, Chuck.  Will it be the multi-color one that you showed us a picture of?


Glad your scores improved this week, too.  Sounds like you worked your way out of a not-too-good situation with your mental concentration in game #5.  That's important to be able to do that, so congrats.   :)

Penthesilea:

--- Quote from: CellarDweller on May 08, 2011, 06:31:22 pm ---After last week's average of 110, I'm glad to see it going back up to 118 again.  ;D  I also sent an email to the bowling league, and got a very nice reply.  They are remodeling their website, but they're very excited to have me as a new member, and invited me to see them bowling next Tuesday.  I believe I'll go and see what everyone is doing, and see what the competition is up to.

lol

Next weekend, I'll be going to a pro shop to see about ordering the ball, bag and new shoes.  ;D

--- End quote ---


Congrats on not having a game <100!
The above sounds exciting, having a look at the team and how they play, and getting all pro with your own shoes and ball.
Have fun! :)


BTW, what do people do with old balls (bowling balls, take your mind out of the gutter! ;))?
Do shops take them back for recycling? Or do you throw them away? I just picture a poor garbage collector, cursing over a trash bin containing two or three old bowling balls. :laugh:

CellarDweller:

--- Quote from: Penthesilea on May 09, 2011, 12:34:56 am ---BTW, what do people do with old balls (bowling balls, take your mind out of the gutter! ;))?
--- End quote ---

Chrissi, that's not something I have thought about.  I believe that one can "donate" the ball to a local bowling alley, and it becomes a "house ball" that someone who doesn't have their own bowling ball will use.

CellarDweller:
And now, here I am with today's scores.

115 - 125 - 113 - 98 - 103 - 127

Slow and steady wins the race.  LOL   I keep telling myself that. 

Once again, not that thrilled with the overall scores, but happy that I had 2 games that went over the 120 mark.  I am very pissed at the 98 in there.  That game was awful.  The pins would not break for me.  I was hitting the pins in the right spots, but never a strike, and then I would miss the spares.  And when I did get a spare, I would get only 1 or 2 pins on the next ball, which really took my score down.  One thing that I did notice was that the ball felt lighter than usual today, so I'm assuming that I've adjusted to throwing that weight ball down the alley.  I was debating getting a lighter ball, but today it felt like it wasn't such heavy weight to be holding.


                 3/12/11   3/20/11  3/27/11  4/3/11  4/10/11   4/17/11  5/1/11

Game 1          109         96            89       125     127        113       112
Game 2          121       115           113      134      93         142       122
Game 3          146        110           125     103      133        140        90
Game 4                       115           132     101      124          88      109
Game 5                       112           117     121      116        100        92
Game 6                       129           118     125      132        147      138
_________________________________________________________________
Average:         128        112           115     118      121        121      110


              5/8/11 5/15/11


Game 1     122       115
Game 2     122       125
Game 3     112       113
Game 4     117        98
Game 5     110       103
Game 6     126       127
___________________________________________________________________
Average:   118    113


Average is still over the 100 mark, and I hope this trend improves.

dejavu:
The practice is doing you good, if you're getting used to the weight of that ball.

When you order your own ball, will it be the multi-color one?

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