Paintball today was, in a word, AWESOME. 13 people (myself included) showed up. We played on an outdoor field… and left extremely filthy, because there were puddles and decaying plants and bird poop. I felt like a swamp monster afterwards. The mud was really bad for mobility… at one point I was crouching down in a puddle and when I tried to move, I couldn’t!! Hmm… got shot in the face a few times and got hit many other times. But none left marks except when Chris shot me from ~3 feet away, repeatedly!! Man that hurt. So my only souvenir from this paintball excursion is the bruise that resulted. It’s multicolored. I took a picture, because, well, bruises fun to look at in a morbid sort of way.
Till gets the award for bringing Nerdom with him everywhere he goes. The ref asked, “So are you guys going to pull some matrix moves?” and Till’s reply was, “We’ll do matrix multiplication!” *koff* To his credit, one of the highlights of the day was his lonesome self versus the other team, after the rest of our team had been eliminated. It was a glorious standoff, and he fought bravely until the others surrounded him. See, situations like paintball make me glad I’m not male, because Jed got shot in the groin!
It was a nice day overall. I sat in the hall (literally sat in the hallway) with Jim & Francis & whoever else stopped by and looked at us with amusement. ^^;; So many friendly people in the department. It’s awesome.