RangerWickett
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Joshua Dyal said:
Hmm. Josh, you wouldn't by any chance be going on vacation in the near future, leaving your dear wife alone at home, by herself, in need of company, would you?
What's this guy's story?
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Hmm. Josh, you wouldn't by any chance be going on vacation in the near future, leaving your dear wife alone at home, by herself, in need of company, would you?
DungeonmasterCal
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I was born in Batesville, Arkansas in 1963. I will be 42 this coming October. I grew up on a small farm between Batesville and Cave City, which we sold in 1988 (my dad died in '85 and my mom rented it out until then). I went from kindergarten to graduation at the same school (Cave City Public Schools, Home of the Cavemen and the sweetest watermelons in the world!).
I made many attempts at college, but never graduated. Just never really knew why I was there. I've worked many different jobs, most of them inconsequential. I have worked in radio as on-air talent, projectionist in movie theaters, labor in agricultural factories, and the longest stretch, data entry for various organizations.
I have been married for almost 15 years, though the last 3 and half my wife and I have lived apart. We get along fine, even work for the same organization, but simply drifted apart. I have hopes we'll get back together, but we'll see. We have one son, almost 12.
I started playing D&D in 1985 during one of my forays back into college, and have never stopped (although there have been several dry periods). The bulk of my gaming group has been together for almost 20 years. It's odd, we started out in one town, moved to another town (we didn't plan to all move together), split up and went all over the world (except me), and now we're back together in central Arkansas. It's just fate, I guess. I'm doomed to game with these mugs the rest of my life. Overall, though, they're a pretty good lot, and we're all friends to varying degrees.
Except for one disastrous year from August 2000 to August 2001, I've lived all my life in Arkansas. The one year we didn't we lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and while that city has a lot going for it, it was just a disaster for us on a lot of levels. So we moved back to where we live now. I've never traveled to speak of, the longest trips I've ever made have been to Loveland, Colorado and GenCon Indy last year.
I have one younger sister, and two half siblings much, much older than I. My dad was 21 years older than my mom, so his two kids from his first marriage are in their 70's now. My older half sister is in fact a few weeks older than my mom (both my parents are gone, now). I have great-nephews and great-nieces older than I. I'm not really close to any of them, however.
By and large I'm a homebody. Living apart from my wife the last few years has shown me how much I enjoy my solitude, though I do miss spending time with my son (he stays with her during the week because of the school district he's in). My wife and I both agree that we've gotten very accustomed to our own homes, and it'd be hard to give them up to move back in with one another, so it remains to be seen if we'll ever do that.
I go to church at a Nazarene church, a fairly fundamentalist denomination that grew out of the Methodist church. The church I attend was started by my wife's great-aunt back in the late 1930's, and a large portion of the congregation are related to her. I have a pretty strongly held belief in God, but am often in conflict with what I see and believe on a "worldly" level. I hope to come to terms with that conflict one way or another someday.
Like a lot of gamers, I've considered writing, but I'm too lazy to really start and when I do get started I think I suck at it, so I let it drop. Most folks think I'd be good at it, but I have to believe it myself, first.
And I love paleontology. I should've gone to school for it, but like an idiot, I didn't. To this day I'm fascinated by the latest finds, and a friend of mine who knows paleontologist Robert Bakker has warned him should the two of us ever meet, I'll probably punch in the mouth over one of his theories.
I suppose there's more, but I'll stop here.
Great thread, by the way!
I made many attempts at college, but never graduated. Just never really knew why I was there. I've worked many different jobs, most of them inconsequential. I have worked in radio as on-air talent, projectionist in movie theaters, labor in agricultural factories, and the longest stretch, data entry for various organizations.
I have been married for almost 15 years, though the last 3 and half my wife and I have lived apart. We get along fine, even work for the same organization, but simply drifted apart. I have hopes we'll get back together, but we'll see. We have one son, almost 12.
I started playing D&D in 1985 during one of my forays back into college, and have never stopped (although there have been several dry periods). The bulk of my gaming group has been together for almost 20 years. It's odd, we started out in one town, moved to another town (we didn't plan to all move together), split up and went all over the world (except me), and now we're back together in central Arkansas. It's just fate, I guess. I'm doomed to game with these mugs the rest of my life. Overall, though, they're a pretty good lot, and we're all friends to varying degrees.
Except for one disastrous year from August 2000 to August 2001, I've lived all my life in Arkansas. The one year we didn't we lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and while that city has a lot going for it, it was just a disaster for us on a lot of levels. So we moved back to where we live now. I've never traveled to speak of, the longest trips I've ever made have been to Loveland, Colorado and GenCon Indy last year.
I have one younger sister, and two half siblings much, much older than I. My dad was 21 years older than my mom, so his two kids from his first marriage are in their 70's now. My older half sister is in fact a few weeks older than my mom (both my parents are gone, now). I have great-nephews and great-nieces older than I. I'm not really close to any of them, however.
By and large I'm a homebody. Living apart from my wife the last few years has shown me how much I enjoy my solitude, though I do miss spending time with my son (he stays with her during the week because of the school district he's in). My wife and I both agree that we've gotten very accustomed to our own homes, and it'd be hard to give them up to move back in with one another, so it remains to be seen if we'll ever do that.
I go to church at a Nazarene church, a fairly fundamentalist denomination that grew out of the Methodist church. The church I attend was started by my wife's great-aunt back in the late 1930's, and a large portion of the congregation are related to her. I have a pretty strongly held belief in God, but am often in conflict with what I see and believe on a "worldly" level. I hope to come to terms with that conflict one way or another someday.
Like a lot of gamers, I've considered writing, but I'm too lazy to really start and when I do get started I think I suck at it, so I let it drop. Most folks think I'd be good at it, but I have to believe it myself, first.
And I love paleontology. I should've gone to school for it, but like an idiot, I didn't. To this day I'm fascinated by the latest finds, and a friend of mine who knows paleontologist Robert Bakker has warned him should the two of us ever meet, I'll probably punch in the mouth over one of his theories.
I suppose there's more, but I'll stop here.
Great thread, by the way!
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Teflon Billy
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Joshua Dyal said:
Well, the incident occured during the chart-climb of Love Removal Machine.
Teflon Billy
Explorer
Queen_Dopplepopolis said:
I'm not so much with the Pink and the Unicorns, but Dippin' Dots...?
I'm right with you there
Teflon Billy
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RangerWickett said:
No one would watch, it would be a TV show about a barber who follows around cheating wives/girlfriends in his off hours.
Hours of footage of a guy sitting in a car, in the dark, with a camera as nothing happens
Yeah, it was an enjoyable read (though I only saw a script, not a comic book)
Queen_Dopplepopolis
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They're the ice cream of the future!! Mmmm!!!Teflon Billy said:I'm not so much with the Pink and the Unicorns, but Dippin' Dots...?
I'm right with you there
Desdichado
Hero
D'oh! Which one? I'm a bit of a dinophile myself; I've trained myself to more or less read the technical literature even. I know Bakker's theories pretty well. His biggest fault is that he's too much of a showman and wannabe cowboy, but most of his theories are a lot more mainstream than he pretends.DungeonmasterCal said:
Desdichado
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RangerWickett said:
No plans at the moment, sorry! Besides, she'd kick your butt if you tried anything. I've learned a long time ago not to mess with my wife.At least not too much.
One of the ways in which I'm an extremely lucky man is that my kids look a lot more like her than they do like me.
Oh, here's a picture I found of her and her grandparents. It's a year old, and she's lost a little bit of weight since then, but it's still a hawt picture.
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Teflon Billy
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Queen_Dopplepopolis said:
as far as I am concerned they are the ice cream or right now
but yeah..Mmmmm!!
