I’m not mad, I’m trying to stay awake in the semi-sweltering heat and ridiculously long food line at the Black Star Coop.
It was a bittersweet homecoming for our Geek Who Drink team. We were missing a couple key teammates but we did have a great sub to cover for Anita. After the Geek Bowl (a super, super overdue story), our team (let’s go with Team Hacker-Wilder) hasn’t really played much. I’ve been pre-occupied with getting my D&D back on and the recent Calder Cup run. Pablo has been touring (he’s in a band). Anita and Consuelo visited their parents. The big delay after hockey though was Game of Thrones which ended its current season last week. (I have no opinion of the show, I am curious yet I already know the key spoilers, I think.)
Sunday evenings are tough. Black Star Coop is the only gig currently. Past locations gave up and I didn’t care for them much; Strange Brew was too far away, some Mexican restaurant was lame; and the Highball remains under construction. The joint was a mess. There was a charity match, a slug of hipsters and noisy children. BSC doesn’t adjust its AC accordingly neither. I do hope the Highball returns soon so our annoying nemesis goes elsewhere. I don’t mind losing to Bobby and his ringers, I just find the un-funny-trying-to-be topical names insipid. Ken described them even better, they’re Dennis Miller wannabes who are even less funny.
We have maintained our skills. We were leading in first all the way to the last round. We aced the Casey Kasem part, music was ugly on one song (let’s hear it for me knowing my Rilo Kiley!), T/F about Animals (blech), aced the visual, the movie audio was spotty and the screaming yard apes didn’t help and I think we fared decently on the random knowledge. Second place isn’t a bad result when you’ve had mental atrophy.
Next week, we’ll be honing our brains further to get some more first-place victories. A co-worker got me hooked on Quizup for my iOS gear to practice on.