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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kanegrundar" data-source="post: 2460356" data-attributes="member: 3913">I'm 28 and work as a digitizing lab manager for the Farm Serivces Agency of the USDA.  It's boring work sometimes, but it pays the bills.  I do hate the fact that I have to drive over an hour to work everyday.  I work in the same small town in Missouri I was born and raised in, though I now live in Independence, MO.  It's a big change for an old country boy like me.  I don't really like living in the city, so I'm hoping to move further out on the edges of the growing KC metro area.  I'm getting married to a beautiful middle school band instructor next year.  She's the best thing to ever happen to me...even if she let's the dog sleep on the bed.  (I hate where I sleep to smell like a dog, clean or not.)My family is huge, as my fiancee has found out over the last year and a half.  I'm the oldest of 4 kids (2 brothers and 1 sister), but I have a lot of cousins.  My folks are a bit of a rarity in my area (in most areas by the sound of it) in that they've been married for 29 years with only the occasional bump in the road.High school was OK.  I wasn't overly popular, but I had a core group of friends many of whom I'm still friends with now.  College was fun, but I never finished (something I'm working on correcting now).  However, I don't really talk to many of my friends from college since they only really knew the wild and crazy drunk that I was back then, and I'm not that guy anymore.  (I still enjoy a drink every now and then, but not to excess...except on the 4th of July.  <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 do talk to a few guys that I gamed with in college.  Too bad we're scattered to the fours winds.  I got into gaming with The Legend of Zelda and the old Hero Quest boardgame.  From there I started playing Basic D&D, which got me into everything from AD&D to Alternity to Rifts and then into the whole D20 craze.  I don't get to game a lot nowadays, but when I do it's usually with my old group made up of a couple friends from high school, my HS science teacher (who is going to be one my groomsmen), and his wife.  My fiancee has resisted RPG's so far, but I have gotten her into playing boardgames like Zombies!!! and DOOM with me, so there's hope for her yet!  Beyond gaming, I'm into hiking, camping, fishing, hunting (mostly small game and deer), baseball (watching only, my knees are just barely good enough to liesurely hike a trail, so playing is out of the question), computer games, and reading.I love my life, though this year has been rough so far.  I lost my grandfather (on my mom's side) a little over a month ago.  I was there when he passed, so I take solace that he didn't die alone, but it's been extremely hard.  I was blessed by having 9 of my grandparents and great-grandparents alive when I was born.  I'm down to 2 now.  It never gets easier letting go. There you have it.  My life overview in a few paragraphs!Kane</blockquote>

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