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Some highlights for me:
-Seeing Groove again, because he's fucking awesome. As well as Bags (also fucking awesome), and a whole bunch of other people I remember from years past.
-Meeting (well, re-meeting technically) Langley and Ice Nine, who are both badasses and incredibly nice.
-Meeting the Crossbow-toting, purple-headband-wearing Seattle duo who are super rad and very generous, both in terms of giving gifts and "generously" shooting me repeatedly.
-Watching Thorn and that young girl (who was she?!) completely dominate four grown men in the speed rounds. Unbelievable. Sorry I had to take you out later in one-on-one Thorn, but I have a (largely fictitious) reputation to uphold!
-Watching in horror as my team got completely and unambiguously owned in missile crisis.
-That time, at the conclusion of my ill-fated last-minute missile run, when I laid down on the concrete and seriously considered vomiting and/or passing out from exhaustion.
-Feeling like a weird combination of C-rate celebrity and creepy old guy.
-Trying to decide how I felt about the fact that about a third of the attendees were younger than Armageddon itself. Proud? Old? Both?
-Feeling satisfied that, after five years away, the Nerfing performance I lost on account of my out-of-practice aim I seemed to gain back from having lost thirty pounds.
-Marveling at what great sports everyone was and how there wasn't a single dick, rule-breaker, or hit-denier. Seriously, such a great group.
-Being intimidated by the speed and proficiency of Langley's pastrami-eating skillz.
-Expressing my unrequited love for Falcon in a lunchtime voicemail that apparently caused him to almost wreck his car while he listened to it.
-Reflecting on the amazing current state of mods and homemades while being repeatedly lasered from like a hundred feet away.
-Remembering why I love Nerf so much and why I've spent 20 years (off and on) Nerfing.
Thanks so much to all of you! Until the next time....
