Geeks at Last!

So I was hanging around with my traditional archery group and as it grew darker, one of my fellow archers reached into the back of his truck and pulled out a 6 D battery MagLite. He proudly declared "And this is my +10 wand of arrow finding." Next thing I knew, another fellow archer and I joined in about our Dungeons and Dragons adventures. Score! I finally found people who appreciate and still play Dungeons and Dragons! I also found out some other really cool stuff about my traditional shooting group:

-- Our fearless leader may be on the verge of discovering a new sea-lion virus. She was quite excited yesterday as she talked about the gels and other biochemical stuff that people do to identify viruses and their proteins. I'm definitely in good company!
-- Another archer showed quite a bit of enthusiasm about doing research on vertebrates with a focus on large mammals.
-- At least 1-2 other people in the gang work as biochemistry technicians of some sort.
-- Lots of references to Monty Python and Tolkien in the group.

I'm even more pumped up about this group than before now that I know that not only do we love traditional archery and nature, but also we're a really geeky bunch! I don't think I've seen a group of people this geeky since Caltech! People at school wonder why I'd rather hang out with archers of any sort, both traditional and compound. They're a whole lot more colorful and fun than the people who'd rather be drinking at a bar or sitting at some over-intellectual film without any combat scenes or the strange critters who think life revolves around TV!

As for the pictures, the arrows were shot from 30 yards on the Equalizer and the outlier was the result of me punching the trigger when I felt a mosquito trying to dig a well on the one spot I missed with the insect repellent. All in all, I scored 239/280 while shooting from the Hunter posts and 220/280 on the Field posts this morning. I think I did fairly well -- now that I've established a baseline, I'd like to see if I can break 250/280 consistently in those before the end of the semester =)