Opening Day!!!

Well, Baseball season is here again.

Time for grand times at the ballpark. 5 dollar beers and 4 dollar hotdogs. Nothing like it.

I love baseball. Grew up watching the Astros. Went to a few games in the Dome that I will never forget. I even had to admit to Damsel that Baseball was my first love. She was none too happy but i think she has comes to grips with it. The plus side for her is that I will happily fold all the laundry she can place in front of me for four hours every Saturday or Sunday, and I will fold it so far as I do not have to get up for more than trips to the fridge or bathroom. She gets folded Laundry, and I get to watch the game, pretty much uninterrupted.

Right now its the bottom of the 3rd and Astros are down 1-0 against the San Diego Padres. A good friend of mine will call to gloat if his Padres win. Of course I will call him if it goes the other way.

I like baseball, but I was never very good at it. As I am not very good at many sports. Golf being one of them. I picked up golf about 3 or 4 years ago an played pretty often for the first 2 years. But in 4 years i have not improved much. that is to say; Not at all. So I have decided to “hang-up” the clubs and change sports. I play on a mens church league Softball team, which actually played tonight and I was not there due to a very sore back. no, I will take up Bowling.

“Take-up” being a loose term since I have bowled since I was about 17. A friend of mine in high school turned me on to the game and I liked it. It is a game that I noticed you didn’t have to be in “Olympian” shape to play. I got pretty good at it. I even worked in a bowling alley while going to college in Lubbock. Bowled on a league and did pretty well. My high game is a 264, which is not too far off some professional players high score. Different of 1 strike. Sometimes when friends or family try to suggest thing to do someone will say “bowling”. I say “sure, let me go home and get my ball”. all of the sudden they don’t want to go.

But lo and behold a “Bowling Center”, as they like to be called now, is opening in my town. In just a few weeks. And Yes, I got a job there. I little income supplement that is needed right now. But truth be told, I would work there even if i didn’t get paid.

SO, goodbye Golf, and probably RC planes, and almost every other hobby I had in the last 7 years.

Bottom of the 4th, score still 1-0 San Diego

(did i mention I have A.D.D.?)

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