Opportunity Lost

My bowling struggles continue as once again I was under average and it's slipping steadily away from the 200 line. I don't really get it but I'm still trying. I cost my team a win in the 10th frame of the first game. Needing 2 strikes I got 1 and an 8 count and we lost by 7. We did rebound to win the next two games easily. Fortunately my teamates all bowled over average, lead by the Grinder with a 630 something. Of course, the one time he makes the paper somehow there were no scores listed for our lanes. Haha.

Before bowling I watched The War at Home which I am really loving. It's on Sunday nights between Simpsons and Family Guy and stars Michael Rappaport. This week's episode was all about how parents can't do anything to their kids these days, there's no fear of getting your ass whipped if you screw up. After his kids were blatantly disobeying him, he finally put his foot down and announced that any more disobedience would result in a spanking! Now, his kids are like 12, 15 and 16, a little big for a spanking but he was just trying to scare them. It worked until his 15 year old son Larry broke his putter playing gladiator and his other 2 kids basically demanded that he be spanked or they would know he was bluffing all along. He ends up having to spank Larry, who then packs up his things and moves to his gay friends house (somehow he doesn't know he's gay). Of course, after that child services shows up and wants to know why he's beating his kids. It was pretty funny and right on about the differences between when we were kids and kids today. That fear of an ass beating is gone and with it some level of who's in charge. All my dad had to do was start to take off his belt and I knew I better straighten up. He never actually hit me with it but the fear was there. I say bring back the fear!

When I got home we watched Lost on Tivo. Wow, that was an awesome episode. If you haven't watched it yet, stop reading here unless you want to know what happened.

First, we learn that Kate killed her father, only it's more complicated than that. She learns that who she thought was her real father was not. Her mom divorced him when she was 4 and married her real father, who was a no good, evil bastard who beat her mom. Kate just couldn't take it any more, she said she couldn't live with having part of him within her. So, she created a gas leak and one night when he came home drunk and her mom was out, she blew up the house. She was caught after her mom gave her up but she escaped after a car crash. We don't really know what happened after that yet. She did see a black horse on the island, but I'm not sure what that means and neither does she.

In the mean time they found out that the computer is not to be used for anything other than inputting the numbers and hitting execute and is not to be used for trying to communicate with anyone else, which seems weird. Michael was messing around with the computers when suddenly he hears a beeping from the terminal. He looks at it and the word "Hello?" is there with a blinking cursor. Normally they cannot type until the 4 minute alarm goes off but he is able to type and replies with his own "Hello?". The response is immediate "who is this?". When he responds with "Michael", the reply is simply "Dad?" and the show ends! Is it really Walt on the other side? And where is he? The others had him but he's been seen in the forest too. What the hell is going on???? I can't wait for next week!

Have a great Thursday, it's Survivor day!