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vovatHappy Turkey Day to everyone, except for the vegetarians reading this, who should have a happy...uh, Soy Turkey Day, or something. Does "Turkey Day" seem to anyone else like it should be a Turkish national holiday? You know, like the election of Mustafa Kemal as President, or something like that? Okay, it's probably just me.
I remember learning that Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national bird. One of my first grade classmated laughed at this when we heard it at the zoo, but I think it might have been a good choice. Instead, the country went with a long-standing symbol of imperialism. Pretty telling, isn't it?
Anyway, last night, I went out bowling with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje and her cousins Dorothea and Alyssa. The bowling alley had installed this new system, which took a little time to figure out. The screens no longer show merely the score, but they now have advertisements and little animated sequences that pertain to how well you bowled. For instance, one of the cartoons that shows up when you hit only one pin shows an elephant sitting on someone. There was also a problem with the bowling balls getting stuck behind the pins, but that was probably just our lane, and had nothing to do with the new scoring machines. For what it's worth, I'm a REALLY bad bowler. There was one point in time when Beth and I went bowling almost every week, and I was starting to get a little better. Now I'm back to being just plain bad again. After bowling, we went out to Denny's, where I had the Moons Over My Hammy.
In Mario and Luigi, I managed to get past the difficult part on Hoohoo Mountain without consulting a walkthrough. As I had guessed, it turned out I was neglecting something obvious. I didn't realize I could have Mario and Luigi move from side to side while spin jumping. I DID end up looking at a walkthrough to figure out how to defeat Queen Bean, since it really seemed like I wasn't making any headway on my own. It turned out that the best method to use in fighting her is pretty similar to that used in fighting Baigan in the original American Final Fantasy II.
I'm here at Beth's house for Thanksgiving dinner. I had considered going home, or even eating at BOTH places, but that wasn't really practical. We haven't eaten yet, but we should be doing so before too much longer.
I remember learning that Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national bird. One of my first grade classmated laughed at this when we heard it at the zoo, but I think it might have been a good choice. Instead, the country went with a long-standing symbol of imperialism. Pretty telling, isn't it?
Anyway, last night, I went out bowling with
bethje and her cousins Dorothea and Alyssa. The bowling alley had installed this new system, which took a little time to figure out. The screens no longer show merely the score, but they now have advertisements and little animated sequences that pertain to how well you bowled. For instance, one of the cartoons that shows up when you hit only one pin shows an elephant sitting on someone. There was also a problem with the bowling balls getting stuck behind the pins, but that was probably just our lane, and had nothing to do with the new scoring machines. For what it's worth, I'm a REALLY bad bowler. There was one point in time when Beth and I went bowling almost every week, and I was starting to get a little better. Now I'm back to being just plain bad again. After bowling, we went out to Denny's, where I had the Moons Over My Hammy.In Mario and Luigi, I managed to get past the difficult part on Hoohoo Mountain without consulting a walkthrough. As I had guessed, it turned out I was neglecting something obvious. I didn't realize I could have Mario and Luigi move from side to side while spin jumping. I DID end up looking at a walkthrough to figure out how to defeat Queen Bean, since it really seemed like I wasn't making any headway on my own. It turned out that the best method to use in fighting her is pretty similar to that used in fighting Baigan in the original American Final Fantasy II.
I'm here at Beth's house for Thanksgiving dinner. I had considered going home, or even eating at BOTH places, but that wasn't really practical. We haven't eaten yet, but we should be doing so before too much longer.
