The Beach
Posted by Skrud at Sunday, July 30th 2006 at 2:25am
I went to the beach today. To anyone that knows me well, this statement will seem odd. Skrud? At the beach? Skrud doesn’t go outside, in the sun, with water…
Granted I wouldn’t normally go to the beach, or the pool, or any other place that where I would be expected to roam without a shirt on. Below is an actual picture of me with my shirt off. Clearly, you can see why I would be timid.
The fact that there were literally hundreds of gorgeous girls in bikinis on the beach only made me more self-conscious.
Anyways, I figured it’s been far too long that I’ve cowered behind the fear of my Wookie-like appearance and braved the open seas … err, lake. We went up to Oka National Park for a day of beaching. I would’ve been difficult to recognize, though proudly sporting my Geek colours with a white (!) t-shirt that said CODE HERO in large letters on the back. I also had a red (!!) baseball cap promoting the Concordia Stingers which I got as a door prize registering for my first year of university.
I ventured into the water pretty quickly, and eventually we got into a competitive game of free-for-all frisbee, or something, in the water, and it was fun.
I also got to reading some of my book (Microserfs by Douglas Copeland, which I’m re-reading, which is a telltale Nerd book.) I didn’t play volleyball, because when my friends went to play volleyball they were joined by a couple of people that I didn’t know. I’m really shy with strangers – ever since I was a kid when I’d adamantly and absolutely refuse to use a swing if there was someone I didn’t know on the swing next to it. So yeah, I didn’t play volleyball, I read my book. I still had a lot of fun at the beach. :D
After the beach we went for a barbecue … at _my_ house. Nobody ever comes to my house. It was a very strange day. Needless to say we ran out of barbecueing gas and so we had to make our burgers and hot dogs (with beer) on the frying pan. Rather, Harley did all the cooking, because I can’t.
The girls (Roxanne aka Lime, Linda aka Kiwi and Leilani aka IronArms) made a dessert consisting of 20% sponge cake, 30% fruit, and 50% Cool Whip. It was … interesting.
Then we started a game of Taboo that lasted until 2am. Taboo is a game in which you are given a word, and a list of words that you are not allowed to say (they are taboo). You need to give clues to have your teammate guess the word without using any of the illegal words.
It’s interesting how personal references and shared experiences factor into how you get people to think of words. For example, Leilani said “I went through one of these yesterday” so I knew the answer was “stop sign”. Or “At dinner we thought Kiwi said that Orlando Bloom was doing…” and I said “Elizabeth Taylor”. You see? Random. But you had to be there. :P
I hadn’t played Taboo since I was a kid. Games take on a whole new level (of perversion, most likely) when you’re older. I’d definitely be up for another uncharacterstic day of fun.
