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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spectre72" data-source="post: 2327988" data-attributes="member: 18885">What we are all experiencing as adults and trying to schedule games is something that groups and clubs are experiencing throught the US.  Over the past 15 years I have been a member of several different organizations.  Examples being a volunteer fireman, a member of a convention organizing committee, and recently was asked to join Lions International and each one has problems finding members and getting them to attend functions.The issue is one of a society which is applying additional demands upon each adult than were applied in the past.  Work for many of us is no longer 40 hours a week, both husband and wife are working which pushes housework to after work houes, children are involved in sports, drama, and other after school activities.  Many of these are requirements in our lives due to the cost of living and employers expectations.  Others we force on ourselves because we want better for ourselves and our children.These are in addition to the time required to maintain a home, attend family functions, and once in a while just relax for a few minutes....This issue is something that I struggled with during my 5 years as a fire chief, and we never found any good answers.People are just busy, and many times people will skip an obligation to get a few hours of relaxation time (myself included).What our gaming group has done is schedule the 3rd Sunday of the month from 1PM to 8PM as our game time.  This way it is on the calendar and we can work our lives around it, most of the time <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=";)" /> Using this schedule we are able to hold sessions 11 out of the 12 months usually.  Would we like to game more? YES, but it is just not possible due to our commitments in life.</blockquote>

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