21/5/23
My girlfriend and I went 10 pin bowling yesterday. I go bowling, maybe once or twice a year. I'm inexplicably good at it. I don't know why. I have zero sporting prowess in any other aspect of my life but bowling is something I'm somehow weirdly good. Not like bowling a 300 every game but I think I'm pretty good for someone who only plays, like, a grand total of 20 minutes a year bowling?
Bowling is a pretty social thing. As a kid i went to a couple of 10 pin bowling birthday parties, I went bowling one time for end of year activities in maybe year 10 and, I was not very good at it.
Then, one day, I hadn't been bowling in maybe 3 or 4 years, I went bowling either a group of friends and bowled 5 strikes in a row first up. Last year, the community radio station I volunteer at won the charity fundraising bowling competition. And yesterday, I got 5 strikes and a bunch of spares. It was actually embarrassing to have to keep turning around after knocking the pins down because I don't know how I was doing it. If I had practiced, had good technique, strategy etc then it would be different but I was literally just chucking a ball down the lane.
I don't brag about things, particularly sport things, but I'm somehow just pretty good at bowling all of a sudden. I'm not going to join a competition league or anything. I prefer it to just be some random thing that I can be pretty ok at cos there isn't many things i can say that about. Hell, even writing this may jinx it for me.
But at the end of the day it was a fun thing to do, which I need to do more of.
I also purchased another typewriter or a hunch. It's an Olympia Splendid 66 from 1968 and.... it is in script typeface! I got pretty lucky with it. I saw it on marketplace and noticed it had a '1' key. Normally portables will negate this key and you have to use a lower case L instead. But I took a chance and it paid off. I'll try and write next weeks post on that so you can see how fancy it looks.
Here's a picture of it.
Anyways. I've had a very good week and have no words of wisdom. Other than go bowling and buy a typewriter. Both are fun activities.
