In a short while I’ll be heading over to Erik‘s house, where we are going to apparently “get our geek on.”  There will be gaming that involves pencils, paper, starships, dice (?), and, apparently, interplanetary conquest.  This will be my first foray into this type of gaming, and I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to think of it, but I feel that if I’m going to continue being a geek I need to try some of this stuff.  I think it’ll be fun.  Plus, because it is all imaginary, if there are any hot Wookiee or Borg girls hanging around I’ll be free to “do them” without spousal reprisal.  My magic missile is aquiver with anticipation.

I grew up having disdain for “role playing” games drilled into me, due to the apparently millions of kids who were unable to tell fantasy from reality and ended up killing themselves and/or others when they couldn’t handle the events that happened to either them or their characters.  I suspect this was largely false information being spread by James Dobson and the rest of the armies of Christian naysayers, and that there’s no truth at all to it.  Still, I’m going to bring my lightsaber in case things get out of hand.

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