So tired of GM'ing. Want to play for once.

...and I'm willing to give the online thing a shot. But I have a problem.

MONDAY, TUESDAY
0000-0700 Sleeping
0700-0800 Getting kid ready and taking kid to school
0800-0900 Exercise
0900-1030 Online Class
1030-1100 Picking kid up from school
1100-1400 Multipurpose (Homework, Time with Family, Honey-Do's, etc)
1400-1500 Get ready for work
1500-2300 Work
2300-0000 Get ready for bed/Sleep

WEDNESDAY
0000-0700 Sleeping
0700-0800 Getting ready for class
0800-1200 Class on Campus
1200-1400 Multipurpose (Homework, Time with Family, Honey-Do's, etc)
1400-1500 Get ready for work
1500-2300 Work
2300-0000 Get ready for bed/Sleep

THURSDAY (My Weekend)
0000-0700 Sleeping
0700-0800 Getting kid ready and taking kid to school
0800-0900 Exercise
0900-1030 Homework
1030-1100 Picking kid up from school
1100-1400 Running D&D4E
1400-1600 Multipurpose Time (Homework, Time with Family, Honey-Do's, etc)
1600-1900 Class on Campus
1900-0000 Continuing D&D4E


FRIDAY (My Weekend)
0000-0700 D&D4E/Sleeping
0700-0800 Getting kid ready and taking kid to school
0800-0900 Exercise
0900-1030 Homework
1030-1100 Picking kid up from school
1100-2300 Multipurpose Time (Homework, Time with Family, Honey-Do's, etc)
2300-0000 Get ready for bed/Sleep

SATURDAY, SUNDAY
0000-0900 Sleep-in
0900-1000 Morning mojo (breakfast for kid, wake-up, etc)
1000-1400 Multipurpose Time (Homework, Time with Family, Honey-Do's, etc)
1400-1500 Get ready for work
1500-2300 Work
2300-0000 Get ready for bed/Sleep

... as you can see, times in Red are all I have available and better spent with family or homework. But without gaming as a release, I'll burn-out (EVERYONE should have a release).

My BEST BET is: Fridays 1100-14 or 1500. Or Saturday or Sunday, 1000-1400. Three or Four hours available where wife is still asleep/waking-up, can watch over my son, don't have to work... etc.

Any later on Fridays and the wife will be awake and up enough to want to get things done (shopping, cleaning, spending time together, movies, dinner, etc... and catch-up on homework).

Is there ANYONE willing to run a 4E game during this time? (UTC-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)

Tell your group you need a break. I did that and several stepped up to run one night delves for a few weeks. Everyone enjoys a change of pace and perspective. After a few weeks off, I felt much better and was happy to return to DMing.
Now we do a delve once a quarter or whenever I need the break and everyone loves it.

Ask them, you might be surprised who would be interested.

jcayer said:

Tell your group you need a break. I did that and several stepped up to run one night delves for a few weeks. Everyone enjoys a change of pace and perspective. After a few weeks off, I felt much better and was happy to return to DMing.
Now we do a delve once a quarter or whenever I need the break and everyone loves it.

Ask them, you might be surprised who would be interested.

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That's great advice, however the group I'm with right now is new to gaming and neither of them are ready to GM.

We began the session two weeks ago to replace another session I was running involving my best friend (the kind of guy you love because he's like family, but hate because he's a d-bag). I dissolved that group because it seemed to be defeating the purpose to spend my time dealing with drama rather than relaxing.

This new group, however is excellent. Watching fresh minds experience D&D is like experiencing it for the first time all over again. I love that feeling. But I now have an obligation to them... and kind of jumped into it out of necessity since nobody else here wants to run anything but 3 and 3.5. Soooo... so so so soooooo tired of 3 and 3.5.

But thanks again for the advice... it's very sound.

Running a little late... time to get ready for work...

HAH your schedule actually suits me fairly well.
saturdays and sundays are about the only time i would have. especially after lunch time cause the kiddos are sleeping

woooooooooooooooooooooo

i think it would quite fun on a saturday