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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old One" data-source="post: 1040918" data-attributes="member: 83">Amazing Variety...Heck, I will play...40-year old (41 in September) male, married 4 years to a vehemently non-gaming spouse and proud father of the cutest 6-month old boy around.  Also have 2 cats (Smudge and Stumpy) and a big yellow lab (Abbey).  Born in California, but have lived all over the US (Illinois, Indiana, Oregon, Florida, Virginia, New York, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Maryland).  I have visited 46 of the 50 United States (N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Wyoming and Alaska left).Recieved my undergraduate degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1985 (BS in Engineering + a history major).  Served 5.5 years on active duty as an armor officer (primarily in the German town of Friedberg...just N/E of Frankfurt-am-Main).  Did a 7-year stint in pharmaceutical sales before switching to financial planning in the mid-1990s.  Currently a Certified Financial Planner running my own financial planning company.  As of Monday, 8/4, I will also be the Deputy Director of Financial Planning for a major non-profit organization supporting current and retired military officers in the US.Have been an avid boardgamer for as long as I can remember, started playing Avalon Hill wargames in the mid-1970s (Tactics II, anyone) and was introduced to the D&D Basic set my plebe year at West Point (1981) by a friend who promptly lost interest.  Been playing ever since, with a few diversions into GURPs, Palladium and MERP.  My current gaming group took a baby-enforced break starting in November 2002 and we just started playing again in June.  I became hooked on the NWN PW of Narfell during those early sleepless baby nights and spend far too many hours playing these days (come on by Narfell and look for Arashika the half-orc <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=";)" />)!I have been around the ENBoards for over 3 years, although I have been mainly lurking since my son was born.  My neglected SH (see sig) is in bad need of an update, but some die hard readers still give me the courtesy "bump" from time to time (thanks Lela and Darklone, the checks are in the mail).~ Old One<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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