The realisation that I’m getting old hit me after a Meeples session with py and Jerm two weeks ago or so – a female friend of Jerm’s who joined us told us that she was only 17 despite sounding incredibly mature for her age, and I realised that it was 5 years since I sat [...]

In the aftermath of that departure, I recollected my routine among the debris. It took a week of battling inner turmoils but I emerged from the wreckage relatively well—I busied myself with my ongoing job search and finishing Demon’s Souls, which I did just 30 minutes ago. And I rekindled my DotA playing days again [...]