Day of Deliverance

I play a lot of first person shooters online. So much so that I’ve been the member of a gaming clan called the OSS Brigade. Most of what we play together are war simulations like Call of Duty, Battlefield 1942 and Medal of Honor. Although we’ve been playing together for quite some time (some of us for years) we have never met face to face. At least not until Friday.

I traveled to Seattle to meet Doc (Stan from San José, CA), Treacherous (Joe from Seattle, WA – our host) and Andy Dufrane (Aidan from Denver, CO) pictured below:

We had a great time together. It was just like meeting old friends actually. Not everyone you meet on the Internet is a freak. Good thing considering what we did that day.

Anyway we had a great day. Joe took us on a tour of the Microsoft campus, where he works, then took us 4-wheeling out in the woods to endulge us in his hobby – shooting. We literally had a blast. Joe has quite and arsenal. . Although he only took a portion of it, there were still . I got to fire a (Dirty Harry’s gun) as well as various others like the ones we use in the game. My favourite, however, was the (a.k.a. the M-16).

For someone who’s not used to shooting I did fairly well blasting away at pop cans and other things. No one got hurt, although from the look of , it appears I was about to shoot myself in the crotch.

“Aim higher dummy! The can is on my head!”

Afterward we went back to Joe’s and had a nice dinner with his family and watched South Park the movie. All in all a great experience. Thanks Joe! Nice to meet you Stan and Aidan! I’d do it again in a heartbeat.