Archive for December, 2007
Project: New Shaft (Day 5???) & More
Mike and I played at the Rack ‘Em Tournament on Saturday. It was a coin toss as to whether or not we were going to play since we’d been up since 5a.m. that morning working on a holiday volunteer project that morning. We barely got home in time to feed Vegas, hop in the shower, [...]
Project: New Shaft (Day 3 and 1/2 and another 1/2)
Wednesday night, I returned to Rack ‘Em to practice. It’s free pool there on Wednesdays after 6p.m. I grabbed a table off in the corner and begin piling rocks for about an hour.
I’d forgotten how much I like to practice there. The place is like a dungeon. It’s in the downstairs of a Bingo Hall [...]
Project: New Shaft (Day 2 - sort of…)
Last night was a scheduled Free Pool Clinic. I told Butch I would meet him an hour early since I’d missed him last week due to my delayed flight. I decided to show up an hour earlier than that to hit some more balls with my new shaft.
When I’d arrived at Table Steaks around 5pm, [...]
Project: New Shaft (Day 1)
I FINALLY broke down and had a nice (figuratively speaking), long practice session yesterday for about 7 hours. It pretty much went like this:
Dang it! Rats! Oooohhh, okay… Hhhhhmmm… Interesting… GGGRRR!!! UGH! *Gasp! I guess it’s not that bad. This thing sucks! Aaaarrrrrrgh!!!
I decided to go to Shakes since I wasn’t far from the area. [...]
