One bourbon, one scotch, and one mav

I miss lan parties. I mean, old school lan parties where we didn’t care so much about what was the newest latest thing, we didn’t have to run the absolute newest patch, we took on some technical challenges and made them our bitch.

Now, we sit around and drink beer and hassle over patches and listen to inane bullshit, watch each other play movies and sounds and flash from everyone else’s computer, but never really get anything done. The sole product of about twelve hours of gaming was two nice solid hours of Day of Defeat.

It just seems like the intelligence level is dropping, the interest is completely gone (nobody cares anymore), the inane bullshitometer is going through the roof and I’m getting really tired of it all.

It’s a shame really. Lans used to be a place where we could all get together and just be geeks, but now it’s something else. I’m not quite sure what, but I think I’m happy I’m not having any more of them for a while. I can’t tolerate them like I used to.

I know I’m getting old.