{"id":4831,"date":"2002-02-11T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-11T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/02\/11\/gaming-comics-and-fancy-restaurants\/"},"modified":"2002-02-11T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-11T22:49:00","slug":"gaming-comics-and-fancy-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/02\/11\/gaming-comics-and-fancy-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming, comics and fancy restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m actually thinking of being not only social tomorrow night but going along and meeting new people. There is a game club that meets and plays LOTR and I would really like to play it again so I might go along. Not got much in the way of a deck yet though \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>On a whole other note, for the first time I actually felt old last night. It was something I saw and it just stood out as me being old.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve finished off the TPB of Astro City and am eager for more, unfortunately there does not appear to be anymore. I am slowly but surely getting the office hooked on Transmet, and that is pretty much going to plan. I lend out the first book and keep the next 3 in my desk so when they bring the first back I can just give them more.<\/p>\n<p>Went out to dinner with one of the guys from work tonight and a couple of drinks afterwards. It was good, but it felt strange a couple of times, we were in a far more fancy restaurant than normal, for no real reason other than we passed it. The office is not a formal place at all (in so many ways) so we were not dressed the part at all. There was no problem being there but it just felt strange, I think the phrase is self-conscious. Someone once said to me that it didn&#8217;t matter, that we were the future (i.e. well paid, young, casual internet geeks) and it shouldn&#8217;t bother me. It&#8217;s good advice&#8230;.I think that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davewhite.net\/\" title=\"\" onmouseover=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return true;\" onmouseout=\"JavaScript: self.status=''; return false;\">Dave<\/a>when we were in DC a year or so ago.<br \/><i>soundtrack: &#8220;Flowers in the Window&#8221; by Travis  <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m actually thinking of being not only social tomorrow night but going along and meeting new people. There is a game club that meets and plays LOTR and I would really like to play it again so I might go along. Not got much in the way of a deck yet though \ud83d\ude41 On a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/02\/11\/gaming-comics-and-fancy-restaurants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gaming, comics and fancy restaurants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}