Dogs and geeks

The thing I miss the most up here in Montreal are dogs. I spent the last several years surrounded by good fun pooches, and now I don't really have any way of doing that. My apartment is no pets, so I can't get one.

So I think I'm becoming sort of a dog whore. I see plenty of dogs on the street here, some cute, some not so much, but I have to smile and try and pet each one of them. Most people are polite enough to let me do that -- I think they recognize the look of a deprive canophile.

This morning I woke up feeling kind of blue and lonely, because I don't have but one or two friends here right now, and both of them seem to be awol for the weekend. And if I waste another whole day playing WoW or obsessively checking DailyKos, I think I'll go nuts.

So instead I decided to go find some friends. Since I'm a geek and get along best with selfsame people, I looked up the nearest gaming store, and walked there. It is rainy and gray out, and Montreal is a brown, grim place when you're all alone, so I was in a pretty bad mood by the time I found my way to Chemin Queen Mary, and the gaming store there. It looked like I would stay in that mood, because the only gaming going on was a bunch of kids renting time on the internet terminals playing WoW and Battlefield 2.

But as it turned out, I was in luck, and there was RPG player meetup scheduled for 2pm. So I killed some time until then, and then got into a decent 1-off GURPS game with some other cool geeks. So now I feel better, because I got some names and faces in my head of people who I can maybe hang out with in the future.

The moral of the story is you've got to go looking for fun, it won't come to you.