I forgot that last Thursday we also went bowling! My scores were 114, 92, 123, and 133. I guess I was distracted by our noisy neighbors for the 92 game. I couldn't hit a spare to save my life.

We ate out tonight at the Buggy Whip. OK, but it's not one I'll go wild to get back to.

I heard from someone who has gathered all the addresses he could find on the class of '62 from both high schools in Laramie, and it appears that one of my classmates may be in Sutter Creek! I thought he was a rich doctor in Massachusetts. So I intend to try this address and see if it's accurate.

Bowling today went OK, but both codgers had an off day. The best one had the same total as I did, which was a real comedown for him. I gained another pin on my average, to 123. Never before the new ball have I bowled better than 118 or so. My scores were 150, 119, 149. I didn't get a meal certificate and I was still having trouble with some easy spares but at least I was picking up the hard ones.

Lawrence asks, in relation to the Prague Zoo:

How do you lose a hippopotamus? And now that they've found it, do you think they ought to be trusted with one of those things again?

OK, I'm definitely quitting Newsweek when my sub. runs out! The editorial states:

Nothing that NEWSWEEK learned suggests that American forces had advance knowledge of the killings, witnessed the prisoners being stuffed into the unventilated trucks or were in a position to prevent that. They were in the area of the prison at the time the containers were delivered, although probably not when they were opened. The small group of Special Forces soldiers were more focused at the time on prison security, and preventing an uprising such as the bloody outbreak that had happened days earlier in the prison fort at Qala Jangi. The soldiers surely heard stories of deaths in the containers, but may have thought them exaggerated. They also may have believed that the dead were war casualties, or wounded prisoners who, among thousands of their comrades, simply didn’t survive the rugged journey from the surrender point to the prison.

Pagan noticed the reference to Citadel BBSing in today's Lileks column.

Finally, ObGoe: why I love my gun.