DSLJ Bowling Party Pix!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

The DSLJ Ball Square Bowling party last night was a big success! 30 people showed up and we had a great time. So much so that we hope to do it again in the summertime. The formerly mysterious private bowling alley has turned out to be a previously untapped resource for party hosting. It's available Saturday evenings for private parties of 20 or more. If you want the contact number, just e-mail me.

I want to hear everyone's high low scores! And if anyone else took pics, get your links up!

UPDATE: Check out r_dorissa's superior pix!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob_v/sets/72157623399043934/

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Ron, I didn't notice until just now that another bowling post went up just before this. Should I delete this or do you not care?

[ron_newman]

No, leave it up please!

I didn't keep my score sheets, but I think my high score was somewhere in the mid-70s. theodosia beat me in three straight games, even though she'd never rolled a candlepin ball in her life before last night. She also wore an awesome Canadian bowling shirt that she found in a thrift shop.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thanks for letting me leave it up!

My high score was 72, and my low was in the 40s. anomie666 beat me on all games. :-)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

My favorite of all these photos is docorion after he (presumably) scored a strike or spare. It's the first pic after the cut.

[delahk.livejournal.com]

Thanks for organizing! It was a lot of fun. My highest score was somewhere in the 70s, I think, though of interest is my last game, in which my group decided to take only turn per round, and I managed a score (I think) in the 50s. What.

[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

My scores in 3 games were 68, 84, 90. Good times!

[ron_newman]

90! Was that the high score of everyone all night? You must have gotten a strike or two.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Marcus hit 92 in one came and a woman next to us (I don't recall her name, she was with Rob?) got a 99!

[blackdove24.livejournal.com]

Snap, I totally missed that somehow! (Oh, and the woman who was with Rob was Amy.)

I think my favorite part was when we all got experimental with the bowling. Group bowl FTW!

-Michael

[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

>Was that the high score of everyone all night?

Dunno, I didn't ask around. I got one strike for the night but it was in my 84 set. I did make two spares for the 90 tho.

[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

For geek value, we should get people to give their scores to someone at the end, if we do this again, which we should.

[soft-shoulder.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!

[diego001.livejournal.com]

So, who went there?

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

seriously!

i know anomie666 but the rest of the photos are useless without usernames! tho i suppose the last could be ron :)

[diego001.livejournal.com]

Yeah, unfortunately I had to miss it on account of having another event already booked, so...

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

It is Ron! He was moving when I took the picture. Wish I'd gotten a better on of him.

[soft-shoulder.livejournal.com]

Edit, in gray and black, plum trees in purple.

I'm the smiley one with anomie

[ron_newman]

Photo #4: anomie666 in left background, surrealestate and hahathor embracing

Photo #5: plumtreeblossom and anomie666

Photo #6: anomie666 and ???? -- I guess that's soft_shoulder from the comment immediately above this one

Photo #7: cthulhia facing camera, surrealestate with her back turned, not sure who the other three folks are

Photo #9: beowabbit

Photo #10: I guess that's me -- I'll take plumtreeblossom's word for it

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I honestly didn't know the majority of the people who went. When they Paypaled me their money, I got their real names but not their LJ name unless they put it in a message. And then I'd have to connect it to a face, so I just gave up on that. I think folks will start identifying themselves.

It was awesome though, and someone was asking about you!

[diego001.livejournal.com]

Oh, hum! I wonder who it was...

[soft-shoulder.livejournal.com]

I asked about you! Wheres Diego?@/!

[diego001.livejournal.com]

Ah! I see. I'm sorry I wasn't there. I had a prior commitment.

[soft-shoulder.livejournal.com]

Tis ok. I didn't stay long myself.

[diego001.livejournal.com]

Will you be there the next one?

[soft-shoulder.livejournal.com]

Don't know yet, depends on my crazy work schedule. Was it d and d night Saturday?

[diego001.livejournal.com]

Nah, actually. I was off in Rhode Island for the 36th Annual Black Rose Ball (http://kaousuu.net/blackrose/event.htm) with the SCA.

Yes, I'm that big of a nerd.

[soft-shoulder.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

[diego001.livejournal.com]

Oh, indeed!

[soft-shoulder.livejournal.com]

Also, added.

[diego001.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Returned the favour now.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

thanks for setting this up!

It was cool to see friends :)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I wonder what other mysterious local places we could take over? Maybe I should slip a note through the door of that weird old supper club place on Broadway in Powderhouse next...

[ron_newman]

Yes!

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

Who's so psyched in the second photo? Not that I'd know him, it's just a great photo. :)

[ron_newman]

I don't know him either, but plumtreeblossom above said he is docorion .

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

That looks so fun! You guys are like old-school adventurers, only with bowling instead of rainforests.

[ron_newman]

We're going to do it again this summer. Come join us!

Nice pix!

[r-dorissa.livejournal.com]

Hey folks,

Amy (non-LJ user) and I had a really fun time. It was great to meet so many of you.

I took a bunch of photos too, and I hope to have them up in the next couple days...

~rob

Victory Dance!

[mud-puppy.livejournal.com]

This was such a fun event, thank you for organizing it! I'd love to go again sometime.

Oh, and Thanks for posting the pictures, I love that one of docorion taking his victory dance. Our Tom is so cute :)

[genesayssitdown.livejournal.com]

i wish i hadn't had to miss this :(

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and you were so excited! But we'll be doing another one in the summer. Hopefully you can come to that one. :-)

[genesayssitdown.livejournal.com]

nope, i'm moving far away. far far away (http://texarrakis.com). which is why i really wanted to go to this one, but also why i couldn't go. ohhh weelllll

[progressnerd.livejournal.com]

That was really fun, thanks!
High score: 105
Low score: 84

[mem-winterhill.livejournal.com]

OMG, that was like time travel. What a hoot!

Thanks so much for arranging that. I don't remember my scores, but each time they improved at least incrementally...so I guess that meant there was a smidge of a learning curve?

Great time. I'd definitely do that again.

[ron_newman]

What I always find frustrating about candlepin is that my aim and scores do not improve over the course of the evening. Often they get worse.

[r-dorissa.livejournal.com]

I mainly stuck around my lane, but there are some photos from the opposite perspective and "behind the scenes":

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob_v/sets/72157623399043934/

~r

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Yours are so much better than mine! I added your link to the post. :-)

[ron_newman]

Wow, I've never seen a photo of the pinsetter equipment before. Looks very industrial!

[r-dorissa.livejournal.com]

It was pretty neat, and the machinery looked like it operated rather reliably...