So how's life treating all of you?

[Eye Tyrant]

[OT]
Hey Eye Tyrant,
You don't know if Scarhead has any connections do you? I've been trying to go play in the big sandbox for a couple of years now. I guess the Air Force just doesn't have much need for a computer programmer over there.
[/OT]

Ahrimon

I have no idea, but if you REALLY wanna go see Saddam's neighborhood, just take a ride to your local recruiter's office. I'm sure they will be more the happy to oblige you. I, thankfully, got out last summer after almost 9 years... Woohoo!!

Oops!

Just re-read your post... and I don't know that they wouldn't need programmers there right now, but when Iraq becomes state #51 you will be in high demand I'm sure...

 

[Tabarnak Smokeblower]

Everything's fine, thank you.

Work is hectic but stable, love-life is stable, great friends, a little less D&D than I'd like (but still a little more than my gf cares for), playing a little music once in a while, continuing my master's in september. Can't complain, except about the weather (we didn't see much sun in Montreal this summer) but at least we didn't have crazy fires or killer heat waves.

Life's good. So far.

TS

 

[VorpalBunny]

Work's good. It looks like some research I've been involved in will be published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

We're getting things together for my daughter's third birthday next weekend. She's very cute and scary smart.

My beautiful wife gave me a 17" flat-panel monitor for our Wedding Anniversary.

It turns out a player in my Sunday FR game is moving out to Long Island, but will communte back each week to play.

Life's pretty good. Don't worry Art, things will pick up for you.

 

[Djeta Thernadier]

I'm good, thanks.

Annoyed as all get out at my computer because my mp3 editor, NERO , decided it won't save edited files as MP3s anymore, thereby completely screwing up a powerpoint presentation I have been working on for two weeks, which I took the day off to finish today...

And the puppy ate my speakers...So now I have to go buy new ones... bah.

But aside from that...MojoGM is the most wonderful man on the planet; I'm still baffled as to why he spends his time with me when he could, in fact, pretty much have anyone, but I guess it's best not to question... My puppy recovered from his pneumonia is now a little fluffy bundle of trouble (that's a good thing). I'm going to Disneyworld in Feb. I finally got my finances in order and I have not cheated on my diet once this week , which caused me to lose 1 lb (Go me!) Started a new swashbuckler game with some fun people. It's not a serious game by any means, but it's very fun.

And uh...that's my week in a nutshell...

Glad everyones well.

 

[Rel]

But aside from that...MojoGM is the most wonderful man on the planet; I'm still baffled as to why he spends his time with me when he could, in fact, pretty much have anyone, but I guess it's best not to question...

Djeta, I'll go out on a limb and venture that it might be because you seem like a very interesting woman with a warm, witty personality and a gamer to boot. Being a stone cold fox probably doesn't hurt either.

I'm a bit of an expert in this area because I happen to be married to a very interesting woman with a warm, witty personality and who's a gamer to boot. Also very attractive. I try to stay humble myself, but it's obvious that I'm pretty awesome to have landed such a delightful creature as my spouse.

Aside from that bit of excellence, life is pretty good all the way around. My 2 year old daughter is simply amazing to behold. She is learning things so fast that I'm astounded on a daily basis at the sort of stuff she is learning.

Tomorrow will be the second North Carolina Game Day, which I've helped to organize and I'm proud and excited about that. Henry is dropping by the house this evening and we are going to meet some of the other Game Day attendees for dinner and drinks and just hanging out. I'm really jazzed about hanging out with this gang.

After this weekend, Tuesday should see the wrap up of the campaign we've been playing since just after Christmas. Then it will be my turn to GM again and I'll be cranking up my Faded Glory campaign where the characters will start advancing into the "higher levels" (10th and above) for the first time since we started playing 3E. That has me excited and a bit scared of whether I'll be able to properly challenge and handle the game at higher levels but I'm going to give it my best shot.

Yup. Life is pretty darn good.

 

[CarlZog]

Super hectic.

Getting ready to go to sea for three months (Working on a tall ship that runs a high school semester-at-sea program.), which means finishing tons of publishing deadlines at my shoreside job, and getting lots of personal ducks in a row. ("Who's going to take care of the dog? Who's collecting our mail, and paying bills for us?")

Should be a good trip (I haven't done one of these in a couple years.), but right now I'm already looking forward to coming home in December, relaxing, and finding a good weekly game to get into.

CZ

 

[hunter1828]

How's life?

Other than nearly chopping my finger off two weeks ago, life is freakin' awesome right now.

My first history paper is going to be published next year, I'm doing some minor web work and moderating for a 3rd party d20 publisher, I'm getting plenty of overtime in my regular job and I turn 34 in just over a month.

Plus, the wife just got hired as an adjunct instructor of meteorology at the local community college (which is above and beyond her regular job with the National Weather Service).

So, pretty dang good right now!

hunter1828

 

[orbitalfreak]

Almost everything's hunky-dory in my neck of the woods. I don't have any health issues, even though I don't live a healthy lifestyle. Money's a little tight right now, and I have (checks wallet and checkbook) $160 to last me until mid-September. Good thing the next book I want is coming out in October (BoED)!

Things are good at home. My sister's still growing up, and is one heck of a genius. Our new kittens are making themselves at home, and have killed the shower curtain in the process. My stepdad has almost single-handedly doubled the revenue of the company he works for. My mom is finally seeing that she's almost through with college, getting a degree in General Studies. We bought four more calves at auction (total now is 6), and they look like they'll live; a couple looked like they wouldn't make it at first. With luck, in a few months, we'll have four or five of them sold (>$300 each), with the rest going into our freezer.

School's been amazing. I'm in my second-to-last semester now. Taking 20 hours of classes, but it doesn't look too overwhelming. Three classes are in Math, and the rest are low-level courses which won't give me trouble. Shouldn't be a hard semester. A friend and I are working on a research project in math. This is my third, and her second, and our first to do one as a team. We're getting funded by the university to do this, to the tune of $1500 to split between us. Some mathematics software, programs and hardware for presentations (including an awesome mouse! ). I think we'll manage to each get an ATI Radeon 9800 All-in-Wonder graphics card too,[b.s.}]"to use its advanced graphical rendering processes to aid us in creating dynamic slides for presentation of our research."[/b.s.]

It's cool hanging out with her, as well as faculty on campus. Our faculty advisor for the research is a real hoot, and we chat with him whenever we can. I'm also hanging out with my physics professor, talking about getting a bachelors in physics after getting a doctorate in math. He just lent me a copy of a book on relativity, so I've got somethig to keep me occupied until school starts on Monday.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I wanna thank all you guys for sharing with me and everyone else.

Its great looking into the window of your lives and seeing how everyone else is doing.

We all relate to one another on the level of being gamers, writers, developers, and so forth. But with things like this we can relate to eachother based on other things too, like real world problems and life.


I want to respond to just about everyone. But i cant, lots of you guys commented. For those that are doing good, Great. Keep it up you're an inspiration to all of us. To those that are having a bad run of luck. Well, all i can tell you is to do what I do.
Instead of dwelling on the here and now, look toward the future. Your current problems are only steps and the future is at the top, climb over them one by one and eventually they will be behind and below you.

I should chime in with the other aspects of my life too.

Things arent all bad. Yea i've been kicked in the jewles a few times in the past month, loosing my luggage, the ticket, spending more on my laptop then i originally planned ^_^, the Gameday not coming together as easily as i hoped it would.

But other then that life is overall, good.

A bit over a month ago I moved into my own apartment with my Uncle. We split a 1 bedroom apt together. I renovated the livingroom into a bedroom so its pretty spacious.
I have a full time job and come Sept 3rd will be back in college for my 3rd year and a 14 credit semester. (time to catch up, i've been slacking, i may as well still be a freshman.)
My parents (more my mom, but my dad too in a few ways), as much as I do hate them at times, are owed a bit more appreciation then I grant them. My mom not only covers half of my portion of the rent, (so long as i'm a full time college student), but also pays for said tuition to college! I'm really lucky in that aspect. At the same time I'm working 40 hours a week to cover the other half of the rent, and bills...which is still hard to cover. Living expenses in NYC are friggin extreme!

I have a girlfriend, finally. Though due to our work schedules I havnt seen her in almost 2 weeks. And she's not a gamer, but hell we cant all get what we want! I work 7 days a week till midnight, she works till 6pm and the days she's had off recently were buzy with family stuff and the result of the blackout, etc etc.
Hopefully that situation will change soon, one way or another. I'm supposed to get a new work schedule today or tommorw switching me to 5 days.

When my uncle doesnt need his car I get to drive it around. So thats good. (thats how i got that parking ticket) and there is always the need to pay for gas, thats bad, but at least nyc gas prices are pretty cheep compared to the rest of the world, and states.

So on the up and up, life i'd have to say is good. A few kicks to the nuts or head wont get or keep me down. I've had and been through worse!

Carry on friends, Carry on.

P.S. This thread has given me an idea for a new photo album. I wonder what you'll all think.

 

[DaveStebbins]

Overall, things are pretty great!

My divorce has been final for about four months now. I'm all seetled in to a new apartment (this one with two bedrooms, my daughter has her own room when she's here!).

I just got a bonus for my work on a 15-month team project at work. It ended over three months ago, so I had assumed there would only be the heartfelt thanks of the company officers. The cool part is that, since it's a bonus, my ex doesn't get 80% of it!

My daughter has been having a great summer and is looking forward to middle school in a few days. I am deeply gratified at how crestfallen she is every time I tell her it's time to go back to her other home across town.

I'm in good health and reasonable shape for a guy my age. I have recently gotten a cable internet connection. I am the Captain of my destiny.

Sure, things could be better. Though I'm back in my old department I'm working on unrelated projects, so I feel a little disconnected. My mom has begun refusing to take her meds at the nursing home. It would be nice if I wasn't quite so shy.

But, when I look at what's important to me in life (the love of my daughter, the companionship of my friends, to love and be loved by a special woman, good health and to laugh and enjoy life), there's only one thing that would substantially increase my happiness. I've almost got it all! How cool is that?

I know it sounds hokey, but attitude really does make a difference. After I dropped out of college, I decided to change who I was. I decided to improve myself by taking after what I admired in my friends. That's when I realized that the friends I ALWAYS looked forward to seeing were positive people, and the ones I sometimes tended to avoid were often negative. I decided to experiment in trying to look at things in a positive way, give myself positive messages, and it worked. I became a much more positive person. Happiness isn't a result, it's a choice. A choice we all have open to us.

In the end, I've finally reached a point in life where I'm not spending a lot of time worrying about things I can't change. I'm living the truism that the best way to change the world is to change my attitude. Overall, I really like where I am right now and I'm very much looking forward to the future.

Have a better one.
-Dave