My bed is covered in tools. And with Misty who has chosen to be in here. There are many people in my flat. They are all playing Call of the Cthulu.
I went out to see my friend Dan this afternoon. If there’s anyone in my life who I might have expected would be playing Cthulu in my living room it’s Dan, but he’s not there. We met at the geekiest place you can imagine while Brian’s Cthulu geeks came to mine. Dan and I were in a railway arch full of old arcade machines where people like us who had them the first time round could go and geek out.
Dan designs games now and we are all older so it is clear to us now there are some games designed to take as much money as possible. The model is much the same across the market. Lure in players with an easy start, then start to take it out of them financially when they think they are getting closer to the end. “Continue?” Dan impressed me with his sense memory on Out Run, getting to the third checkpoint on one credit. “It’s about using the gears to slow down.” Most of the light shooter games were broken, but we could still machine gun House of the Dead. Absolute pair of nerds. I’m shameless about it. We were nerds back then, we still are. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Point Blank, Time Pilot…
The house is much more Christmassy suddenly despite the current emergence of the great old ones from Rll’yeh or whatever is going on in the living room. There’s a tree there made of wood, not flesh. I cut the top off to put the star on and it didn’t scream. No tentacles, just baubles.
I love my multitool. Don’t use it much but it is just situationally perfect for doing things that would otherwise be annoying. The tip came off in moments.
And all my tools are on my bed. I had them on the kitchen table but Cthulu happened so I moved them in. I need to pack them all nicely but first I’m charging up all the batteries. Annoyingly I’ve got a mix of DeWalt and Makita now and they need different chargers. Dewalt is better though as the 18 volt batteries charge on the same cradle as the 12 volt ones. I’ve got a corded angle grinder too but access to power points ain’t guaranteed on these jobs. Tomorrow is gonna be a long long day. I think I’ll be asleep in an hour or two max and it’s half five.
Pretty tree. Not too overloaded. But I’ve got my Harrods 2020 baubles on it…
AlBarclay 