The Ghost of ‘Gamers’ Picnics past…

It would seem that 'SOMEONE' was searching on here to see if I had posted about a certain picnic I went to last year – to see if I had possibly written (perhaps?) about him...*smiles*

Of course (luckily), I got to return THIS year to said picnic and have been on Cloud 9 ever since…

So if I HAD posted about that day (and perhaps even ‘said subject’) what would I have written (sans hindsight)?

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Fresh Impressions on a Past Impression

July 2005

So was dragged to a Gaming’ picnic by the idiot...don’t ask me why I agreed to do this – perhaps part of me feels sorry for him on some level (note to self: STOP THAT!! Stop being held captive by your guilt!!!).

At any rate there was a nice enough group of people there. We ended up sitting with another couple that had a really cute baby and playing a game called ‘Flux’ (sp?) – my head is still kind of reeling from playing this game – I did not understand it at all – or perhaps their ‘instruction’ of how to play was lacking. I wanted to play ‘Apples to Apples’ cause I heard it’s a blast...

My ex seemed to know most of the people – on the surface at least.

There were a couple of men there that I took notice of as well – one was from CWRU – and he seemed pretty nice and pretty intelligent. That IS the one thing I will say about geeks/gamers in general - you're likely to at the very least be able to have an intelligent conversaiton - now if only we could get htem to talk about something BESIDES Star Trek and dice rolls....

The ‘other’ guy I noticed was cute in a rather unusual way – well from what I could see – when I was not playing with the other couple I was sitting under a tree reading a Yoga book (I am sure they all thought I was EXTREMELY antisocial).
I AM NOT – but then part of me just didn’t want to be there either..

Back to that guy...he seemed really ‘take charge’ – he was cute – cuter than the other...um...*sigh* (no other way to say this) couch-potato-esque-‘gamers’ (I mean that is if we are talking 'cute' in terms of physicality – he was good looking in other ways too – lots of charisma LOL I wonder how many 'points' he has for that character trait' - Jesus listen to me will you...); he was a bundle of energy too, and he was REALLY trying to get people to play the game he was running. (I had to laugh it was almost like a carnival ‘barker’ trying to get people over to their game, only there was no money/prize to be had/won.) Note to self: ask the idiot in a nonchalant way about this guy...