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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Friadoc" data-source="post: 4574241" data-attributes="member: 5445">Oh, now that's a loaded word, Leif, although I appreciate the thought and sentiment of it, I am not a celebrity, not in the least, although I have done some playtesting and some game design work. To give you some perspective of where I am coming from with that comment, my lifetime income from all things related to freelance role-playing game design and development is, maybe, between one hundred and two hundred dollars, American, over an eight year period.My celebrity is more on the level of the folks you see for American idol who do not get picked, but avoid making a fool out of themselves. Who knows, maybe if I do good in the Pathfinder Society Open Call, or this years RPG Superstar, then I can, tentatively, acquiesce to such a compliment.Thanks, though, as it is cool to be noticed, although one of these days I would really like for it to be a girl who notices, instead of a dude. Seriously, thus far, it is always dudes. I even have had a couple of fan letters, from dudes, talking about games, asking questions, and so forth, but no dudettes. Now, if my boat floated in dude waters, it'd be awesome, but...yeah, nope. <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=";)" />Seriously, though, thanks.Now, as for my life and troubles, I'm doing okay. I'm still out of work, but thankfully it has allowed me to focus on my school work and I'll have earned my Associates this March, which I am looking to see about leveraging into a program at my local college, the Oregon Institute of Technology. They have a nice Applied Psychology program, which when leveraged with an Associates in Criminal Justice, could make for some interesting opportunities. Once the Associates Degree is done, I am gonna apply for a few licenses here in Oregon, one for private security and the other for investigation, see what I can do there, while also going to school.While I have applied for a few jobs, thus far nothing has panned out, although my unemployment is still fairly solid and my living expenses are modest (the house payment is only $395 for a three bedroom two-story house with a basement and a garage), so I'm doing okay.After several months with no tabletop games, that should be changing this weekend, which is cool, as I have been way too much of a hermit, lately. <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=";)" />Anyhow, as I said, all is good, just different, and although I am not floating in ducats, I am not homeless or destitute, either, so I've got that going for me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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