Having read promises of three skee ball machines, dragged parents & dogs to Valley Park Lanes & Family Fun Center in North Adams. Turns out there are only 2, one of them out of order, and they're Ice Ball machines, not proper Skee Ball at all (shorter lanes, inflated scoring, plastic balls). Anyway, we made the best of things, blew about fifteen bucks, I tried both my usual strategy of attempting consistent 40s (4000s in the horrible otherworld that is Ice Ball) and my former colleague's method of going violently for the 100s in the corners, did better with my own, both are pretty fun, got some nice prizes.

Photographic documentation here.

Couldn't get a satisfactory shot of our glittering prizes, may try making a scanogram later.

Keep getting called by work, agh!