Can definitely say that I've been there and done that...I walked away circa 1990 and stayed away close to a decade. Kept all the old stuff but unfortunately got suckered into believing that resin is necessary to score on the current conditions in the league setting.
Then, after I got back from Wichita last May, I basically took off until a few weeks ago. Part of the leave was to try and give the hand a chance to finally heal properly and some of it was simply the lack of desire to bowl league. I didn't miss the house shots at all...even now, they lend themselves more to plastic than anything else. As Queens grows closer, I do find myself going in to practice but league is still a show up, throw the three uninspired games and go home. But for the fact that I didn't trust the response that I could pay my sanction fee in Tulsa, I doubt I would have bowled league this year at all...