Gaming night: I lost

Tonight was gaming night. I didn’t have a great time, though I spent a great deal of time on it, therefore I lost.

from 6:30pm to midnight. We played one, 8 player (then 7 player), game of Arkham Horror. In the end, we faced off against the elder god and beat him in 7 rounds (on round 10 we were all to have been devoured). Arkham Horror would be a fun game if it didn’t take so damn long. As is, it reminds me a bit of Munchkin and Bang, both of which the people I have over for gaming seem to love, but I’m very bored by, and Kill Dr. Lucky. Particularly Munchkin, as it takes for-freaking-ever, and as its main “redeeming” virtue has amusing artwork.

When I went outside, I found someone had let all the air out of my bike’s tires. At least, I didn’t see any slashes in them in the dark. And I didn’t notice them having any issues when I locked it up. And the caps were missing off the tire valves when I went to unlock it. (Recently purchased, hadn’t paid attention to the caps, but I think they were there.) So, I got to walk the full 20 minutes home, and tomorrow I get to buy a tire pump and see if some dickwad did just let the air out or if it’s something else.

At first, it made me wonder what the hell was going on in their head when they did it. Letting the air out of someone’s tires? What’s the point in that? Taking 30 seconds out of your day to anonymously make some stranger’s life miserable? Then it made me angry. I’ve had the misfortune to talk with far too many self-righteous motorists convinced that all bike riders are scum of the earth (fueled by guilt they refuse to acknowledge?). I resolved to do my best to make the next one I talked to supremely uncomfortable and guilty (I wasn’t planning on discussing my tires, no clue if that asshat is a motorist (though I suspect so). I was planning on basically saying that if all cyclists are in a moral equivalence class then all motorists must be too, and how does it make them feel to be held responsible for killing my aunt? For knocking me off my bike onto the concrete? For running into at least one friend of mine while he was walking with right of way? With all the earnest anger I feel for things that are no more their fault than other cyclists going the wrong way down a one way street is mine). And motorists, if you want to condemn cyclists as a class for reckless endangerment, shut the fuck up you howling hypocrites. I curse at individual cyclists all the time, but as a class, motorists are in a for worse boat. I really should be more focused on getting to the gym tomorrow morning. That would be far more productive. But clearly I’m not biking there.

Fun times. Stephen -3

Also, it felt today like WoW may have jumped the shark for me. Not really sure. Time will tell.