2008 - Still lucky after all.
Originally Posted on January 14th, 2008:I didn’t go bowling. In my town, bowling is apparently a big thing. We called a few hours ahead of the dreaded cosmic bowl and were told that they were already packed.
Not even the bars in downtown Peoria get that kind of love on a Friday night.
What did we do instead? Well, we played the longest game of darts ever. It was a wacky version of cricket where the numbers were all messed up; the darts machine was not user-friendly at all. I won by a hair, but only because my karma was good enough to spare me the mild humiliation of losing an hour-long game against three other people who were just as bad as I was.
After that, we smoked… And talked… And smoked some more. This bar has a “heated smoking area,” though it wasn’t very warm. What puzzles me about its legitimacy is that it’s an enclosed space. It has windows, a roof, and four walls. It shares one wall with the bar. Doesn’t that count as “indoors?” Hmph. Not that I’m complaining.
All-in-all, it wasn’t a bad evening.