Gratitude and Musings
Mar. 19th, 2004 09:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seawaspI decided I should take a moment to say things I'm grateful for.
First for my wife Kathleen; she is beautiful, intelligent, incredibly tolerant to put up with me, talented, and manages to keep a home running, care for two boys (plus another one, in me), and she's geeky enough to actually interact with me.
Second for my two boys, Christopher and Gabriel. They're both very bright, cute kids, even if CP has trouble listening at times and Gabriel is the Toddler of Doom.
Third for Eric Flint, the Butcher of Baen, who walked up and handed me the chance of my lifetime to be an honest to god SF writer.
Along with Eric, Jim Baen, who made said miracle possible.
My cool, if so energetic he intimidates me, boss, Zack Mian. He's a genius and a frighteningly Type A personality, but hey, he's given me a pretty darn cool job to do.
All my friends, physically met and electronic, with especial nods to Eric Palmer, Carl Edlund, Vern Sodergren, Steve F., John Nielsen, Andy Wolgemuth, and Larry Conley ("We Won't Be Having Any More Of That!")
Musings;
I've oft mentioned that I'm effectively a Great Old One in the online communities. Sure, there's folks on longer than me, but not a huge number -- I sent my first email in 1976. In gaming circles, I am about in the same position; there's some people who were gamers before me, but not all that many (I started in 1977).
It seems possible, however, that I may actually have an online honest-to-god first: I believe I may be the very first person to have run a true Play By Email D&D/RPG campaign, starting in 1978. At least I have yet to hear of anyone else doing it earlier.
First for my wife Kathleen; she is beautiful, intelligent, incredibly tolerant to put up with me, talented, and manages to keep a home running, care for two boys (plus another one, in me), and she's geeky enough to actually interact with me.
Second for my two boys, Christopher and Gabriel. They're both very bright, cute kids, even if CP has trouble listening at times and Gabriel is the Toddler of Doom.
Third for Eric Flint, the Butcher of Baen, who walked up and handed me the chance of my lifetime to be an honest to god SF writer.
Along with Eric, Jim Baen, who made said miracle possible.
My cool, if so energetic he intimidates me, boss, Zack Mian. He's a genius and a frighteningly Type A personality, but hey, he's given me a pretty darn cool job to do.
All my friends, physically met and electronic, with especial nods to Eric Palmer, Carl Edlund, Vern Sodergren, Steve F., John Nielsen, Andy Wolgemuth, and Larry Conley ("We Won't Be Having Any More Of That!")
Musings;
I've oft mentioned that I'm effectively a Great Old One in the online communities. Sure, there's folks on longer than me, but not a huge number -- I sent my first email in 1976. In gaming circles, I am about in the same position; there's some people who were gamers before me, but not all that many (I started in 1977).
It seems possible, however, that I may actually have an online honest-to-god first: I believe I may be the very first person to have run a true Play By Email D&D/RPG campaign, starting in 1978. At least I have yet to hear of anyone else doing it earlier.
thanks for the nod!
Date: 2004-03-28 08:02 am (UTC)You definitely beat me pbeming. I started in the late 80's. 1977 -- wow that was early. It is strange to think how long ago that was.
It also reminds me that my son is 10 now (went to Disneyworld for his birthday). Judi was pregnant w/him back when we visited you in 93.
Now it's back to work and taking another class at OSU. I managed to get an A in my class last quarter -- it's been almost 10 years since I had last taken a class, so I'm definitely happy for the result.
We need to find some other way to get together if pbeming is too time consuming, maybe an ocassional multiplayer video game?
john
Re: thanks for the nod!
Date: 2004-03-31 07:32 pm (UTC)Multiplayer vidgames seem unlikely -- I don't get much chance to synchronize online time with people, alas.