SPAM!

So I just finished reading the Discourser's blog about SPAM. Yes, I too love spam. There was a time in my life when I was ashamed to admit this fact, but now I speak about it with pride....I LOVE Spam! Other than eggs, and maybe potatoes, I can't think of a food "product" with more diverse uses. One bit of warning, do NOT read the ingredients list on the back of the can.

And since I'm coming out of the closet about Spam, I might as well disclose a rather embarassing aspect about how I spend my free time. I "role play" game. Yes, I can't believe it's taken me twenty blogs to admit this fact, but I am an admitted "goober". For folks who are not aquainted with this particular brand of psychosis, let me say "Dungeons and Dragons"....there, I said it. I'm a complete nerd. It started in the 80's. All my friends at the time were either nerd-balls geeks or metel heads, bascially living our teenage lives on the fringes. We escaped by playing games of every sort. It started with "Risk", moved onto "Axis and Allies", and finally to "Dungeons and Dragons". I immediately loved the game.....and though D&D is the most well-known RPG (roll playing game) to normal, well-adjusted people in the real world, I should say that D&D is basically dead now...no one "cool" (boy that sounds completely rediculous) has played that system in years.

Now regarding RPG's, the phenomenon has really evolved over the last 20 or so years. There are legions of RPG'ers who now play on-line. Several systems, "Warcraft", etc., has had millions world-wide playing in a universe which exists only within a server somewhere in Indiana or India for that matter. However, old-school RPG'ers like myself build characters on sheets of paper and roll dice of every configuration,...4 sided, the bland 6 sided, 8, 10, and even 20 sided dice.

Anywayz, my uber-goob gaming friends, which my buddy "the Discourser" has most aptly titled the Gathering of Geeks (GOG), are currently enthralled with the game "Legend of the Five Rings"....and NO it has nothing to do with Lord of the Rings. How do I describe this game, hmmm, okay, Medieval Europe is to Lord of the Rings as Medieval Japan is to Legend of the Five Rings. That pretty much describes the world within the game. I've had the most rediculous honor of being super-uber-goob by introducing and running the game...I'm what geeks call the Game-Master or GM for short. My god...this is embarrasing. After over 2 years of running one particularly epic story arc, I've turned over the game to "the Fumbler", uber-goob extraordinaire. I've reliquished the GM'ing reigns and am now a player.

So, in the future, you might be seeing gaming references and blogs. I hope this fact does not diminish your impression of me.

I'll get back to you soon about my new character.