Okay, first I have to explain why I was in a Starbucks yesterday. No…that’s too complicated. Let’s just say I had good reason NOT to be in my usual coffee dive. But I needed free wifi access in order to chat with the Jamelah and cobble together the new Iron Photographer elements. For those of you who aren’t part of the Utata community, that probably won’t make any sense. I’d explain Iron Photographer and why I needed to chat online with Jamelah, but it’s even more complicated than the reason I was in Starbucks.
I wouldn’t even mention the fact that this happened in Starbucks, but the location is part of what made it so amusing to me. So…Starbucks.
Right. I’d just finished my business (if you can call a chat with Jamelah ‘business’) and I was packing to leave when a middle-aged guy in a nice suit sat down at the next table. Packing to leave takes time when it’s only 17F outside–there’s all that business with the scarf and the hat and the gloves and the coat. By the time I was ready to go, another guy in a suit approached the table where the first guy in the suit is sitting.
I started to walk away. I overheard the first guy in a suit say to the other guy in a suit, “I used to be an accountant like you; then I took an arrow in the knee.”
I was halfway out the door before that sunk in. Then I was out on the sidewalk cackling.
It occurs to me, this will probably only be amusing to folks who have been playing Skyrim. I’d explain Skyrim, but it’s about as complicated as Iron Photographer and why I was meeting with Jamelah and why I was at Starbucks.
Okay, maybe you had to be there. Or maybe you had to be me. Or maybe next time I’ll just put this sort of thing on Twitter. Overheard: I used to be an accountant like you; then I took an arrow in the knee.
In my defense, I did say the world conspired to amuse me. I didn’t say it conspired to amuse anybody else.
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Ah, your surreal world conspires to amuse us all through your wonky perspective and way with words. Thanks, and *hugs*.
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Much as I’m looking forward to Skyrim, I insist on playing Oblivion first. The most-used feature of my Elder Scrolls games is how they sit on my hard drive waiting for me to have enough time in the world. (This is also handy because by the time I buy them they are usually on sale at $10, but the downside is I don’t get to play them while Felicia Day is playing them.)
I still haven’t figured out what faction I want to join in Morrowind, though I think it’s probably too late to go that far back. I had a bit of a setback in that one when I stored a bunch of stuff in a handy chest in someone else’s house, and when I retrieved my goods the game declared me a thief and an outlaw. It was downhill from there.
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