After the office trip was finished on day two, we were herded to a Dave & Busters for dinner. It was a good way to end the trip. The day had been long, and my brain was still attempting to slide out of my ears, but I got to meet some cool fans who showed up, and spend some time in a casual setting with the devs. I didn’t spend a lot of time talking Vanguard stuff, just hung out mainly, which is why I’ll just go to the amusing highlights of the trip that some how got missed in the massive long winded tangent that was my last article.

Highlight #1: On the first night, I mistook Thott of Afterlife for Alakazham. We were talking about focusing on what we were good at doing. I was all: “yeah, I write stupid posts” and he was all: “I run a spoiler site” and I was like: “yeah, I would never want to do that. When people ask for spoiler sites, I just send them to sites like yours. Go to Alakazham if you want info right? Right? Alakazham rules!” to which he replied: “I run Thottbot.” Definitely a great moment in anyuzer history.

Highlight #2: On the second day, Cindy decided she was going to marry me off to a nice American girl. See? These people are so good to me, not only do they invite me to San Diego, feed me, put me up in a hotel, they’re also going to marry me off! You just can’t find better people than these… of course where they’re going to find a chick into guys who look seven years younger than their age, beats the hell out of me.

Highlight #3: Somehow, on the bus to Dave & Busters, found myself caught in a picture, where, in a 70s, pimp, lacking any chest hair fashion, I was caught, relaxing, with my shirt barely buttoned up. Smooth man. Real smooth.

Highlight #4: Was with Brad at D&Bs. Upon handing my passport over as photo ID to prove I was indeed twenty-three, and not the twelve year old whom I so closely resemble, the lady, being all subtle said: “sure, I’ll be right back” at which point she disappeared. Two minutes later there’s this big burly guy who looked like he was more interested in making me eat my passport than checking whether it was valid demanded to see it. I pondered whether it was going to be time for a good old fashioned throw down.

Highlight #4: At dinner during the Fanguard thing, I sat beside Bill Fisher, who is always cool. After he went around his area of the table, getting everybody to introduce themselves and the websites/communities they were affiliated with, he turned to me. To which I replied: “I run an asian porn site specializing in tentacle rape,” to which he rebutted: “sorry, my thing’s midget porn”. We bonded.

Highlight #5: Sitting at a table talking to Brad again. Our conversation was in regards to motocross, cars, etc. He looked at me, and in the calmest voice I have ever heard says simply: “I like speed.” It is said in such a way, I know that no matter how much I like speed, I will never understand how much he likes speed. I don’t even know what that means.

Highlight #6: After dinner, during the Fanguard, people were playing doubles on pool. Teamed up with Amanda Poe and kicked some serious ass. I’m not entirely sure whose ass we kicked, but we definitely kicked somebody’s.

Highlight #7: Found myself talking to Tom King. He admitted to having spent two days walking around San Diego. His feet were killing him. My feet were killing me. We bonded.

Highlight #8: Spent all night lightly drinking. Heard Oloh say: "that's hot" far too many times for any sane man. Woo!