The good thing about bowling at a club is that there is something new to blame each week. This week, the air conditioner broke. It was very hot and stuffy. All the cigar smoke made it worse. It was a miserable bowling condition, but we bowled through the stress and took all four points. My scores are as follows:

Game 1: 191 - I wasn't hitting my spares, as usual. I just couldn't focus.

Game 2: 234 - Things started to click this game. I had a four-bagger to start the game, then left an open in the fifth. Between this game and the first game, I struggled with ten-pins. I usually hit them without any difficulty, but tonight I wouldn't hit one - my only one - until the third game.

Game 3: 197 - I needed a turkey in the tenth frame for a 200-game, but didn't. I did, however, get enough pins to lift our team to a new team-game total, just two pins higher than before.

TOTAL: 622 - It's not what I was hoping for, but it could have been a lot worse. I had a lot of open frames.

When I got home, I went right to sleep. I'm still feeling sick from the uncomfortable climate on Tuesday.

Our team is still tied for first place. Although we are tied, we have the pin accumulation as our advantage to keep us on top. It's going to be close in the end. If I remember, I'll bring a stat sheet home next week so I can share everything.

Till next week...