And On The Eight Day God Went Bowling

I worked on my birthday, but I was off Tuesday and Wednesday. I thought about going to a movie, but The Man can't sit through a whole movie. He's got to move around and stand up every now and then. The Girl suggested we go bowling, which was seconded and passed unanimously. The Man can't bowl any more than he can watch a movie, but at least he could move around while he watched us bowl. It was fun, even though I did break Four fingernails.

I'm not a bowler. People didn't watch me in awe of my natural talent. On the other hand, I was good enough to solidly whip The Girl in our second match. I don't remember who won the first. Scores aren't really that important to me. Like my age, I just don't care. I mean, I'd like for my team to win, if I ever actually watched a game, but really I don't care.

At night a lot of times we play rummy, but we don't keep score. Whoever goes out first wins and then we go on to another hand. Who cares how many cards you have or if it's a court card or a number card? Just play the game and have fun. We have house rules, too. We use jokers, and you can steal somebody's joker if you have the card it's standing in for. I threatened to institute rolling flushes. Since you can have Ace-2-3 or Queen-King-Ace, why can't you have King-Ace-2? Linear thinking isn't as good as circular thinking. The whole world is just an interwoven assortment of cycles and seasons.

Anyway, my birthday was good. I'm still waiting to use Meemaw, but I have a huge floppy green frog named Butch to keep Bill daBear company, and not one but TWO crystals. A Moralla quartz smoky phantom and a Danburite crystal with White Polka-Dots! I know, how lucky can I get, right? I got the only one with polka-dots. They look like the snowflakes in snowflake obsidian, but smaller. The Moralla quartz looks like a smoky Herkimer diamond, but as far as I can tell it came all the way from Australia for my birthday! Pretty thoughtful for a rock, isn't it?