Hang with Jeremy

You check your contacts and there just isn't anyone you want to hang out with more than with Jeremy.

So, the two of you eat {if grocery < 1}a frozen pizza{else}a healthy meal then sit down with your computers to play a multiplayer World War II simulation. You play as Belgium and Jeremy plays as The Netherlands, which means you're dwarfed by France and Germany at your borders (then again, you dwarf Luxemburg, for what that's worth).

With some clever alliances, astute investments in technology (which you share, eliminating any wasted effort), and some luck in battle, you manage to survive until 1942... well after the fall of France, but the German player allies with Soviet Russia and Great Britain, leaving the two of you ultimately facing the onslaught of the European powers alone, abandoned, and in agony.

Until you bring in the US, Japan and China and Vichy France, springing a trap that closes on the superpowers and leaving you, if not victorious, at least among the victors.

Feels good.

You note that your stream picked up more followers than Jeremy's typical half-dozen and you mention your own stream both to them and you message it to the other players. Hey, marketing is marketing, even if it's at a small scale.

"Got to get some sleep," Jeremy tells you as you shut down around two in the morning. "There's this chick at work who wears me out."

If you hadn't seen him with Huan, you would think he was bullshitting you. Now, you wonder if he actually is getting it at work. Not that you would have been unfaithful to Amber, but couldn't a few girls have even tried?

Then again, things definitely seem to be going better now, at least in that front. And speaking of that front, maybe you should call Huan sometime. Clearly Jeremy doesn't have any use for her.