TOG - The Older Gamers

Most of my gaming life I've been a one game person.. One game at a time, I mean. And now in my late 30's I'm no different from early 20's.

If it's an engaging and submersive game, it can keep me going for years. Like Diablo II or Ultima Online. The times in between was filled with brief interludes (except for a 5 year black hole created by WoW) with short term but VERY enjoyable games like Dungeon...

At the rate I've been posting updates, I'll be lucky to average a post a month since I started this thing. Oh well, you can't rush greatness.

Which would hold true if my ramblings could be equated to greatness. Or even medicoreness. Is that even a word? You know the quality of your writing is poor when you make up words (and your last name is not Seuss).

Anyways...

For those of you with long memories, you may recall one of my early posts dealt with...

Wow, I haven't been 'active' on TOG for a long, long time. I remember the days when gaming and being a very active member of the TOG community were very central to my out-of-work life. They were great times, spent with gaming friends that we enriching to be around. But, as with all things, change is inevitable.

I started spending a little more time sleeping, and a lot more quality time with my daughter. We get out and enjoy photography together (she is fascinated with insects and...

I've been dealing, I've been coping...until today. Today I didn't cope and, because of that I spoke to my daughter in a way that I am ashamed of. So I'm putting this here so that some of that frustration can be vented. I don't have RL friends to 'have coffee with'. I know people don't believe me but it's true. The one person I considered a friend told me 'I don't have room in my life to deal with this' when I told her I have Lupus and I haven't heard from her since.

Lupus. Systemic...

Oh dear. The cobwebs. The dust. I think I even saw a few cockroaches scurrying their way through here. And who left the back door unlocked? I think I saw a few squatters comment spammers camping out in here.

Well, we cleared all that riff-raff out. Time for a little spit & polish, a little elbow grease, (a lot of booze), and we're gonna make this place shine again.

(In other words, I am totally going to start making regular updates and articles again)
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