Rain, Balls, and Holes

12:29AM. It's a bit early for me to be making today's post, but time has taken it's toll and I'm actually tired when I should be, how ironic.

I woke up late today as usual, last night having been another one of those merchant nights where I hit up ebay and snipe to my heart's content. I won 5 Tour Bus playmats each ranging from 30-40 dollars (reg. 70+) from the same seller, so shipping cost was combined (thank god). Pics will be posted in the foreseeable future. So contrary to some popular opinion, 4:55AM is a great time to be awake, especially when you can work some mercantile magic :)

I performed my daily ritual of getting out of bed, hearing the magpies (who all need to go to hell, by the way) from my backyard coupled with the crackling of my screwed up back-bone, and grabbed my raggedy keys to check the mailbox in whatever the hell I may (or may not) have been wearing.

Today's Yield:

 I actually died laughing (then came back as a clone of myself, of course) at this because they actually put each card into it's own top loader! No wonder shipping was 12.95...bastards.

Rain and Balls after the jump!

If you have read this far without becoming bored to tears:

Today, for the first time in about five or six (or more) years, I went to ed's (formerly known as Red's but the 'R' fell off, and they were too chinsey to repair it, and/or change the name entirely; true story) entertainment center at West Edmonton Mall for some bowling with a friend.

Thursday night is the night when you can bowl for an infinite amount of time for 12.75, so having planned to be there for hours, we went to raid the shelves of the T&T (like the Huns!) for soy milk, which happened to be on sale (a 9-pack for only 3.75!! Plus bonus malt flavor omg! \o/ ).

The first couple of bowls, I had no form what so ever, and consistently hurled the ball into the gutter of divine punishment/shame/failure/the abyss. But I preservered, I started to actually develop a technique that produced some measurable amount of aim.

Amazingly, we tied perfectly for the first couple of rounds on one of the games, despite my ass getting whooped in total score. A sure sign of improvement.

We ended up leaving earlier than anticipated due to arm and finger pain, but I feel like I got my  money's worth.

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And oh yes, it was raining outside. Rain is always a nice way to end a day.