Yo-yoing

I'm sure you have heard of yo-yo diets. Well, I'm currently yo-yo gaming.

Two Sundays ago, I was invited to play Vampire. Got my junk together, showed up, but I was one of the few that did. The Storyteller decided not enough people showed. So, we didn't game.

A week ago Saturday, my Star Wars GM flaked out. So, no gaming there.

This past Tuesday night, I was invited to do something I cannot remember doing for the longest time: play D&D on a school night. It was fun and we had a good time.

Today - today was the anti-climax to about three weeks of mixed and missed signals. It's pretty obvious that I have some personal investment in seeing the role-playing hobby survive. So, when I was approached by an MIB from SJG to run a GURPS game at a FLGS - I was all "LOL! FTW!" :)

To make a long story short, I didn't make it on the schedule at the store - no one outside of the staff knew I would be there. So, I sat for three hours. Not that it was a bad thing. I put out a little sign practically begging people to talk to me. Many did. (Shout out to S and his son S - you know who you are! Thanks for entertaining me!) Others came by said hi and talked a bit. Most were more interested in my copy of The Red Dwarf RPG (not an SJG product) than the other GURPS items on my table. (Little hint for the licensing boys in Austin, no?)

The FLGS is correcting the scheduling problem and one of the D&D players that was in the store (they had a HUGE turn out - apparently that campaign has been going for a while) stated he was interested in playing GURPS - asked me if GURPS did fantasy? Yes, indeed!

So, in all, not a total loss. Certainly is breaking up my unemployment boredom.