The wife's workplace held their Christmas party at a nearby bowling alley on Saturday night. I haven't been bowling for years but I tried it recently on the Nintendo Wii where I found my carefully aimed throws were all curling to the left and only knocking down the pin(s) on the end. A fault with my Wii controller – or so I thought until I tried it for real on Saturday...
Quasar

... and thoroughly embarrassed myself as shot after shot struck the single pin on the left end. What's worse is that the wife broke a nail on her first throw leaving her with a bleeding thumb. She switched to her left hand which she has never used for bowling before and still managed to thrash me! What a flippin' smartarse!


The smartass wife bowling

Afterwards a couple of us tried a spot of lasertag in the Quasar arena. Now that's something I was once pretty good at – back in 1994. For some reason everyone else in the arena were wearing togas (weird place for a toga party), so there was a surreal scene of what looked like ancient Greeks running around with laser guns but they seemed like a good crowd so I was happy to jump in and start shooting 'em.

I never was one for sneaky tactics – run into a crowd of the buggers with guns blazing I say. It usually ends up with me taking out one or two leaving me surrounded and thoroughly machine gunned by the other six of them. I'd be shit in a real war. It was jolly good fun though and besides getting a stitch I came out of it covered in sweat with bleeding elbows and with my ace Casio watch scratched up something rotten. That possibly indicates I took my short lived military career a little too seriously as I had been gamboling and jumping around the arena – certainly the people in togas didn't seem to come out of it looking as battered.

Anyway, my team won – so the sacrifice was probably worth it and I can give myself a posthumous pat on the back.

Next Christmas party is on the 17th and involves beer and curry with the lads which should involve fewer injuries - unless Sanjay the stingy contractor decides to get drunk and punchy....