Flutterby™! : Paintball!

Alec took me to Fairgrounds Paintball for my first paintball experience today. Not quite as cool as I'd imagined, although some of that is probably that this was all fairly tight indoors arena play, next time we'll go some place with big outdoors regions. And rental paintball guns are extremely innacurate, and rental face shields tend to fog up, so the fairly dark indoors thing often degenrated into "get behind something, popping up occasionally to empty an ammo container downrange". Even so, over lunch we played with a few of the serious folks in the larger brighter arena, and things started to come together. Lots of communications and tactics, and I realized that running isn't what gets you tagged, sitting still is. And I got my first "cool, I meant to take that guy out, and did" experience. So I did a lot of charging in the afternoon, where I realized that when you have to sit still, it's a good idea to have chosen the where to sit still very carefully. In one such charge I made it fairly deep into the enemy side, then realized that what I thought was my empty flank was actually occupied. So I got winged. But then walking out defeated through enemy territory (gun held high overhead with the muzzle plug in) I came by someone's hiding space and got hit in the thigh at point-blank. That's gonna smart. Anyway, a moderately fun, albeit very expensive, way to spend a day.