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skeeball season will be on Tuesday nights and probably starting on Jan 30.
I can't say that playing every day at home has made me any better. I often felt like I worked too hard for mediocre scores. Now I'm getting mediocre scores w/o working so hard, :-). I've been using a more relaxed style. I've actually tried several styles (modeled after various other people in the league). What is weird is that a new style will seem to work well for me, but only for a short while. Maybe, because I'm trying something new, I'm being more careful? I don't know. Yesterday, I started writing down the scores so I can tally up a set of 10, just like in a match. It is much easier to have a sense of how I'm doing on average compared to having a bunch of individual scores scattered through the day. I forget if I have already mentioned it, but this machine does some crazy stuff sometimes. I don't know if it is the different materials of both the balls and the cups or what. Balls that seems like they were definitely in have come flying out of cups. Yesterday, I had the ball bounce off the bottom of the 40 cup (the entire bottom isn't a hole) into the 30 cup, then bounce out of it to score a 20. Robbed twice! I'm hoping this means this machine is a bit harder and that my league scores could be higher. I know hundos seem harder to score for my wife. I've had the high score (370 - a cherry!) for days. I would have expected her to top that by now.
We still have a rare mis-score. I need to get back in the habit of tracking the score myself, as the league machines are less reliable at scoring and it actually matters there. Another reason I need to practice scoring is so that I can be less distracted by doing it.
