Like class a 5 hurricane

Wow, only a few months since my last post this has to be a record!

A friend of mine recently announced he and his spouse were going to have a child. I could not be happier for the 2 of them. Children are the one gift you give yourself that you never seem to deserve. They are so amazing1 that something so small can change your life in ways you do not even imagine at first, It is great.

Whats new with me? Well the "o this sucks and O that sucks" moaning has been reduced to a minimum and things are going great! New job is keeping me busy and making me use my brain (yup the brains back!)

The changes I'm making in my life have made me feel more spirtualy centered then I have in years. Do not get me wrong I miss some of the people I no longer see regularly, but life intrudes and you make the time you can. I had dinner a couple nights ago with some people I had not spent time with socially in 3 years, maybe longer. The night was wonderus and I noticed that we all talked and and acted like no time at all had passed for us, this is a sign of true friendship.

So things are well and I can not complain, well less then usual.

From the ashes: reports of my death etc...

It has been far to long for me to post. I just recently had an excellent time with some gents at a gaming session. I have since that session decided to greatly curb my gaming time and habits.

Someone told me about a year ago that "I was the person I was going to be and that odds are I was not going to change" What terrifies me is this person is educated. How obtuse to make a statement like that, people are always changing. Some may be set in their ways but we all grow as we age, some in a straight line some branch out.

I still love gaming but not with all the people I game with. I have noticed in the past few years a surging forward of an elitist "cool kids" attitude that makes me want to puke! People don't want to play with other people because they are not cool enough, christ its so much pre-school bullshit, its simpler to move away from a hobby that has been infused with this huge lack of comradery and good fellowship and exchanged for basicly drinking night behavior.

Hell Give me clever socially unacceptable players over fart joking,"your a pussy" bar room giggling any day. I know, I know grumpy old school guy rants on.

IT's this simple; In the old days the guys I gamed with knew my birthday, called just to say hey and didnt only get together to sit in a basement for 3 hours a week and think that made us friends. My friends know they can call when the body in the living rooms to heavy.

Sorry my end of the friendship pool is not the shallow one, my end has the diving board.

I love this world

Wow! I can not believe where the time has gone it's already march and I still need to change my BROM calender from february. Life has been full of interesting twists as of late.

My past (which tends to be a bit dark and unforgiving) has caught up to me in an odd way. I at one time managed local bands and would get them booked for shows. While buying a new sports coat at a local mens store, the gentleman helping me find a sales person started to talk about local bands and how the "scene" had changed and when I told him about the shows i had produced he remembered them. so he says I'm putting together a show of shows kind of thing next fall would I be interested in getting involved and hands me his card, says give me a call.

so to those thatmight pass this way what say you? Yeah? or Nay? let me know.

Thank god for brown gravy

Wow! Time like a humming bird flies quickly. Seems like it was just November and here we are on a new year. My resolutions have been made and I'm already doing well on all of them. I have stopped bitching about my job (except in jest) and started looking for a new opportunity. That's all you can do lifes to short to eat bad cheese.

I have decided to streamline my personal hobbies a great deal in the next year and to expand the number of new people I game with this will give me more exposure to new ideas and variety in playing style. I figured out recently that I do not dislike gaming, except for my Wednesday group I'm not having as much fun. I was at welcon this weekend and it really opened my eyes because I had fun in the game I played on Friday but I did not really enjoy the game I ran on Saturday, might just be I need to play more?

What ever the case I find myself longing for games that are run rarely, Inquisitor, Mordhiem and more rpgs then you can fit here.

So I'm looking forward to this new year I'm sure its going to be a doozy!

Shadow