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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 5368230" data-attributes="member: 2072">Tomorrow I turn the age of two score and five. I have been married for nearly seventeen years, to my wonderful wife whom I met on America Online - if that helps set the stage. We currently have eight children; three by birth, four by adoption, and one foster child. Several of our kids have special needs. We live on several acres with horses, donkeys, goats, pigs, chickens, ducks, a goose and the like, as well as dogs, cats, a parrot, and fish. Needles to say, free time is at a premium, around here.The last face-to-face game I DMed was in 1994. However, in the attempt to keep my offline group together as we went our separate ways, I devised "Into the Land of Black Ice", a play-by-post game that began on AOL's RPG Forum, moved to TSR's AOL Forum, followed TSR to the web, and then moved to a website I set up using FrontPage discussion groups. I have run a few play-by-post and chat-based games, since then. For the past three years, I have DMed "Heirs of Turucambi", an underwater adventure.The game I ran prior to that was an undersea play-by-post game. I prefer undersea settings because I can amalgamate my interests in D&D, writing, and saltwater aquariums. I started keeping saltwater aquariums after I got married. I had given up keeping reptiles and collecting comics, but didn't realize the addictive nature of keeping glass cages. I have always loved the sea, but I have two older brothers, one who majored in marine biology. The youngest child never wants to do what the others have done, you understand.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />My gaming, these days, consists of sitting at my computer three hours a week every Sunday night starting at 9pm, after four of our eight kids have been put to bed for the night. Granted, I keep a gaming notebook and write on my computer and iPad, when inspiration strikes. My wife, a non-gamer, will occasionally roll her eyes or give me "that look" when game time rolls around, but she understands how important it is to me that I exercise my creativity in a manner of my own choosing.We do not always see eye-to-eye, my wife and I. Nor do we share every interest, belief and hobby. But we understand and respect one another. When she wants to go work out at the Y, I think nothing of it. My workout consists of heaving dozens of 50-pound bags of animal food from the feed store into my trailer and from the trailer into my barn. I also enjoy walking in the woods behind my house, where I get to see deer, raccoons, possums, foxes, wild turkeys, and more. The other night, I saw a coyote.Long story short, no relationship is like the e-harmony commercials. Two people should not share every interest. How boring would that be? My wife likes country music, I like music from other countries. We agree on politics but not religion. Etc, etc... It always gives us something to talk about.As for "growing up"... it's highly overrated. I will occasionally wake up my kids by blaring "Dead Puppies" on the stereo, play "naked sock puppet theater" (no socks required) with my younger kids, and will always think flatulence is hilarious.  I also find professional sports to be boring and pointless. Your milage may vary.</blockquote>

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