Weens is Jordan Cohen

Weens rolled a 278 last night.  That’s a pretty solid performance.   When you consider all the leagues that are rolled night after night it’s not groundbreaking, but it’s still impressive.  It should be noted that he took the perfect game into the 10th which is damn near the most anticipation that can be had.   It starts to get interesting around the 6th strike.  There were also 0 Jersey strikes in this feat.  Big Urn tried to save face in this game as I knew it was going to be a pic.

The man, the myth, the legend…with a little dog.

To add to this story, we all threw in 10 bucks of which half goes to the person with the high game and half to the person with the high series.  In dramatic fashion, Weens ended up overtaking Mugsey for the high series by about 5 pins.  His final series was 1,000 pins after 5 games for an exact 200 average.  There you go Weens, an entire blog post dedicated to your feat.  One of the pluses of bowling with a blogger.  Oh yeah, Jkash was there too after we didn’t invite him about 5 times in  row. Adam bowled 3 quality games.  Evan and myself did nothing noteworthy.

I apologize for the slow posting but I have about 4 posts in drafts right now that I’m not sitting down and doing.  I’ve decided that I’m going to try to do more research before posting and up the level of quality for my posts.  Usually it’s whatever pops in my head but since that only works so well, I know I need to do more.

The biker gang violence in Texas for some reason fascinates me.  I bought Hunter S. Thompson’s book about Biker Gangs in the late 60’s and started reading it.  I  intend to finish that, which will take a few days, and then write a post on biker gangs in their current state with the latest investigation headlining it.  Anyone else think the bar being called Twin Peaks is awesome?

Another post in the pipeline is to have a recap on # of viewers of season finale’s.  This became a light bulb for me after reviewing the numbers of the finale of Mad Men when compared to others.  The point I’d focus on is why the quality of later seasons tend to dip (seeing it big time in GoT this season) and how that affects viewers.

I also want to write a post on the decline of baseball as a whole and why youth (7-17) baseball participants has dropped from 8.8 million to 5.3 in 15 years.  There was an article in the WSJ that I read today that had a lot of good points but I think I could expand further for the decline and give reasons on how to swing it back.

As you can tell, these posts aren’t usually sit down for 30 minutes and write a post.  I actually have the time to write but I’ve just been occupying it with more mindless activities like watching Mercury Rising, the Iverson doc on Showtime, Montage of Heck on HBO, and also Playoff Bball.   So stick with the site.  I’ll spend some time tonight and then tomorrow morning before I’m away for the weekend to get some material up.

No this is me in a nutshell!

I’ve had a pretty normal week but this post will use bullet format to describe a few of the highlights.

• On Wednesday night my first bowling league concluded.  Our team finished with a 13-27 record which was good for last place in the league.  I used JC’s 16lb ball for the very first time in this league and rolled a 237 my very first game.  Easy game.  My average started out at 190 after the first 3 games and finished at 150 after a league’s worth of games.  I sprinkled in a 247 as well which was good for high score of the entire league.  It won me $100 bucks.  It should be noted that in a handicapped league, scores like these are horrible because even though you win the game most of the time, you screw yourself for games after due to the raised average.  I am partly why our team finished last.
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  His was better than mine.

  Last night we played in the championship game in our rec bball league.  We were tied at halftime and lost by 20.  My top play was when Evan was backpedaling and the back of his head collided into my forehead.  Our team must have had 30 turnovers.  I also went 0-4 from the foul line.  It was humiliating.  I feel like a worse version of DeAndre Jordan.

• Dillion Harper, a pornstar, favorited my tweet.  I’m not sure how she pronounces her name.  Is it Dill-E-on?  Or is it Dylan?   She’s hot.

@SethMacFarlane you look like pornstar @DillionHarper #Dopplegangers

— Tom Stortz (@rnningfool) May 15, 2015

Dillion Harper and Seth MacFarlane

Your site isn’t getting traffic because your content isn’t important or useful enough. It’s that simple. You’re not raising the bar, helping people, entertaining them, changing lives, and inspiring your readers to take some form of action. If you were, your audience would grow. Trust me.

I must have upset Google because my traffic is low.  After getting 800 people from a Reddit link, I’ve been punished and logged 131 people yesterday.  Considering I think the blog is at an all-time high, this is disturbing.  I pretty much always think the blog is at an all-time high by the way.

This post however isn’t going to be an all-time high post.  This is a “my brain isn’t working 100% and I’m not able to produce a great post so you’re going to get my shitty weekend report.”

On Saturday the Stortz clan met up with my mom for some brunch and to celebrate Mother’s day.  Laura liked a place called Kanella’s where I had some salmon infused eggs which were interesting.  We walked around Rittenhouse for a little after to check out the art and parted ways.  I then met up with Gourlay and crew at Frankfurt Hall for a few hours.  I made a mistake and didn’t eat after the brunch and after 3 tall beers at Frankfurt Hall I was toast.  My younger self would have continued getting plastered but I went home and passed out at 9pm.  Life is tough at 31.

Shee, Jeff, Mike, and I played golf yesterday at Raven’s Claw.  My scorecard had me shooting a 91 and edging out Jeff and Adam by a stroke.  Jeff’s scorecard had something completely different.  It was a fun time though and the only part I’ll remember is chipping in from 20 yards to save a 9 on a par 5.

I didn’t exercise once over the last 3 days and feel like a piece of shit.  I should be back on track by tomorrow.

I was cleaning my room last night and noticed the top of my dresser was filled with trinkets or objects that don’t ever get thrown out. Here was what they looked like.

• Far left is a picture of Evan, Justin K, Celeste, and myself from December 5th, 2013.  Why do I still keep this?  I honestly have no idea where else to put it that’s not the trash can.  Apparently this photo op drew the fine line of being important enough to me not to throw out.
• A pin the says “it’s my fucking birthday” was given to me almost 18 months ago.  Lauren McGrath made it (or bought it) and it was cool enough for me to not throw out.  I didn’t wear it once.
• Above that is about 20 bucks worth of casino chips to Valley Forge, Sugar House, and a few AC casinos.  A voucher for $1.60 is also present.
• There are 4 coins which hold some type of currency but they aren’t a penny, nickel, dime, quarter, so I have no idea what to do with them.  The far right is a $1 and the one to the left is $.50.
• Below the coins is a gift card for $50 to a Steven Starr restaurant.  I just don’t use gift cards.  I used JKash’s $50 dollar Express gift card to by a 3 months subscription to Brazzers.
• The far right are 2 wedding invitations that are upcoming.  I keep these so I don’t forget to go.

I’m having the same issue that Sam had when we upgraded to WordPress 4.2.1. The theme that we were using wasn’t compatible and the only way to get the posts to show is swapping the themes. Naturally I didn’t have a proper backup. I’m working on re-installing the old theme with what I’m hoping are proper updates. Stay tuned while I work out the bugs.

Of course the best blog in the world has nothing more than text as its first impression.

Gourlay’s blog returns and my life is once again complete.

Not so much actually.  My life has been a whirlwind of activity that I can’t even keep hold of.  I have so many activities planned that I’m in need of a planner.  At no other time in my life have I felt the need of a daily planner but I think I’ve reached full adult.

In complete display of being an idiot, I double booked a weekend with two trips.  6 months ago I committed to an annual team relay from Gettysburg to DC (last year’s write up).   Without realizing it, I also told Adam and Evan that I’d go to Punta Cana on the same weekend.  The latter trip was booked on Friday and I felt sick to my stomach on Monday once I realized what I did.  What to do…

I knew I could back out of the AOR but it would have been the wrong choice as a responsible human being.  I ended up calling Expedia and getting a full refund on the hotel no problem but I had to incur $300 of fees to get vouchers to American Airline.  They wanted to charge $600 but it was a “courtesy” for me being an idiot.  How airlines make money 101.

I wish it ended there.  I have a bowling league on Wednesday and a basketball league on Thursday.  This Wednesday there is an AOR meeting which I have to choose between and then I have a trip to Baltimore for work related business that will have me missing basketball.

Not to mention that the new Stortz website launched today and it is accompanied with ordering issues and failing re-directs all over the place.   I’m thinking of walking in the Duplicator:

I’m sort of a fly by night kind of guy where I make plans and then just make it happen. Lately though this isn’t possible because I’m learning that different locations make regular events problematic. Without a doubt I’ve been traveling more lately and it does involve some lifestyle alterations. All is good though now that Goodies is back. Whew!