I may have found a new crew of.....NERDS!!!!!

Well, after GW Chiba closed its doors way back when, I thought, 'well, that's it for gaming, buddy.' All my ex-opponents seemed to simultaneously get a hard-on, or stimulus evoked contraction, for card games, which, for the most part, are totally gay.

Years went by. I traveled to some far out places, drank my weight in beer 100 times over and smoked enough to decimate a small army whilst in Nepal. (the authorities will never catch up with Fredrick Flintstone,  I assure you) I thought my days of sitting around in a Star Wars T shirt talking about Star Trek TOS episodes  while fondling dice were over as most of my corporeal friends seemed to be more interested in surfing and spear fishing (and running away from the cops) than anything smacking of, let alone hinting at, nerdom. Then, one day I came across Bolt Action, a World War II (before television!!) skirmish game that gave me the biggest stimulus evoked contraction since my first trip to Thailand before I became a bodhisattva. (lol).

Being no slouch to modeling or gaming, I knew instantly that this was the game I had been waiting for since I was 16, all fat, spotted and angry. Finally, units of the Britischefreikorps could see battle under my command. I'm busy shaving dice as I write this! Will Hauptman von Durham lead his rag-tag deserters to glory in the birth of the 1000 year reich? Or will he lead them to their own doom in the defense of the Berlin zoo in April 1945? (Choose option 'B'...it's more correct.)

I found a club to replace the 'Ultimate Gamers' in my hometown in Canuckistan. It has been so long since I rocked the dice and waved a tape measure about like some sort of magic wand cursing my opponent and their juvenile, mal-interpretation of given rules. The years since I have been back in Japan have had a critical element absent from my incarnation; gaming. And as tongue-in-cheek as all of this is, I am sincerely stoked about gaming again. Nothing beats hanging out with gaming nerds. Gaming nerds are the best. Nerd 4 lyfe.

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