It Wasn't Actually Bound to Happen
06/16/09 02:33 AM | Spurts
For the eleven or twelve people who still read my blogs on or around the third rock from the Sun I have a bit a of news about myself.
In the grand scheme of things it is less important than 5 generations of a single termites offspring in Africa releasing 5 parts per million of methane into the atmosphere in a decade, and effecting the global warming scenario, still, with billions of termites at work there is an effect on the global community. Me, I am still far less important that all the farts of a single African termite in its entire two year life cycle. Still, tonight I have reached a pinnacle of my own existence. My endeavors and accomplishments usually make no difference upon the lives of any of my family or friends, unless they bring more money or comfort into the body-collective experience as a whole.
I know that individual achievement is only relevant if it raises the experience of the collective as a unit, still I believe my own personal achievement may raise, enlighten and enrich the body politic, as it did the other citizens at the arena of my endeavor this night in the outmoded anglican calendar of the religious zealots of monotheism.
Pride may come before the fall, but it is still days before summer, so I might as well mention that tonight I bowled the best game of my 14 year league (sanctioned and unsanctioned) bowling "career."
Three years prior I achieved a high point, (kegling wise) with a mark of 257 for a single 10 frame bowling contest. Since then I have garnered only ten additional 20+ totals game scores within 12 different sanctioned and non-sanctioned bowling leagues. Never to again topple the 257 pinnacle for to better the life experience enjoyment of my fellow travelers.
Last week I entered the arena of bowling on East 10th. just south of Shadeland with a confidence and swagger not befitting my capabilities and proclaimed that I would have a 200 game that very evening. (it would be my first of the 5 weeks within the 12 week league) and low, I pulled a 206 out of my proverbial anus (I don't know which out-dated and illegal proverb per-say to attribute my collective achievement to this evening) in the very first contest of three. My teammates rallied and bolstered by my confidence and effort also improved their games and we won all 8 possible points in the contest of kegling of that evening.
With an undeserved pride in (individual) achievement, not altogether attributed to the entire citizenry, I did again this evening utter forth a proclamation that I would achieve an unheralded series collective score of above 600 as a cumulative score of three continuos bowling game endeavors.
The evenings first game started roughly only to end with a collective team effort triumphing over an equally deserving and capable opponent by just 8 pins (including a generous and system mandated handicap in an attempt to make all combatants truly equal). The second game saw the opponent team rally back and prevail by a 9 count and after two games the scores were separated by 1 pin, truly the equitable solution and system of handicapping was an accurate and a fair one. The final game in the trio of bouts found the opponent team players all failing to achieve their system ascribed averages while the team which I captain realized marked improvement ,with the first three players combining their efforts to overcome their cumulative averages by 29 pins, while I in the anchor position bested my average by 102 pins.
In the end we were able to prevail over our opponent team by a total score of 273 for three games with my (all new) best ever game of 268 and the rest of the teams collective efforts. Sadly I still failed in my unnecessary boisterous claim of achieving a 600 series with my final tally for all three games weighing in at only 597.
Chuck Pace ©2009
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In the grand scheme of things it is less important than 5 generations of a single termites offspring in Africa releasing 5 parts per million of methane into the atmosphere in a decade, and effecting the global warming scenario, still, with billions of termites at work there is an effect on the global community. Me, I am still far less important that all the farts of a single African termite in its entire two year life cycle. Still, tonight I have reached a pinnacle of my own existence. My endeavors and accomplishments usually make no difference upon the lives of any of my family or friends, unless they bring more money or comfort into the body-collective experience as a whole.
I know that individual achievement is only relevant if it raises the experience of the collective as a unit, still I believe my own personal achievement may raise, enlighten and enrich the body politic, as it did the other citizens at the arena of my endeavor this night in the outmoded anglican calendar of the religious zealots of monotheism.
Pride may come before the fall, but it is still days before summer, so I might as well mention that tonight I bowled the best game of my 14 year league (sanctioned and unsanctioned) bowling "career."
Three years prior I achieved a high point, (kegling wise) with a mark of 257 for a single 10 frame bowling contest. Since then I have garnered only ten additional 20+ totals game scores within 12 different sanctioned and non-sanctioned bowling leagues. Never to again topple the 257 pinnacle for to better the life experience enjoyment of my fellow travelers.
Last week I entered the arena of bowling on East 10th. just south of Shadeland with a confidence and swagger not befitting my capabilities and proclaimed that I would have a 200 game that very evening. (it would be my first of the 5 weeks within the 12 week league) and low, I pulled a 206 out of my proverbial anus (I don't know which out-dated and illegal proverb per-say to attribute my collective achievement to this evening) in the very first contest of three. My teammates rallied and bolstered by my confidence and effort also improved their games and we won all 8 possible points in the contest of kegling of that evening.
With an undeserved pride in (individual) achievement, not altogether attributed to the entire citizenry, I did again this evening utter forth a proclamation that I would achieve an unheralded series collective score of above 600 as a cumulative score of three continuos bowling game endeavors.
The evenings first game started roughly only to end with a collective team effort triumphing over an equally deserving and capable opponent by just 8 pins (including a generous and system mandated handicap in an attempt to make all combatants truly equal). The second game saw the opponent team rally back and prevail by a 9 count and after two games the scores were separated by 1 pin, truly the equitable solution and system of handicapping was an accurate and a fair one. The final game in the trio of bouts found the opponent team players all failing to achieve their system ascribed averages while the team which I captain realized marked improvement ,with the first three players combining their efforts to overcome their cumulative averages by 29 pins, while I in the anchor position bested my average by 102 pins.
In the end we were able to prevail over our opponent team by a total score of 273 for three games with my (all new) best ever game of 268 and the rest of the teams collective efforts. Sadly I still failed in my unnecessary boisterous claim of achieving a 600 series with my final tally for all three games weighing in at only 597.
Chuck Pace ©2009
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