It's sometimes interesting to take a step back and look at your life as it evolves and changes, people drift and mutate with extra limbs, friends come and go and you alter over time.
Crucial all consuming elements of your life become less important and focus shifts as time grows on and every now and then you cross a point where you think, "Well thats done for that, best move on.". I think Gencon this year will be like that for me, it'll either make or break gaming, although I'm bound to keep on tabletopping as I run a game at the moment.
But my interest in the whole thing seems to be waning slowly and soon it could be just a pile of books to Ebay...
That said I'm looking forward to the games
davywavy is running, a bunch of my old LRP friends are going to be there and the beer, dice and pizza should be flowing once more.
But I still have my plans for dodding old age, oh yes. Once I hit crusty old fogey level I fully intend to exploit all the karma I've (hopefully) built up over the years by being a generally nice bloke... my plans include buying the biggest, fastest, flashest car I can and driving everywhere at 12 miles an hour, standing in queues at supermarkets and then asking at the last moment if the assistant can go and get me an item that I've previously hidden somewhere else, paying for everything in coupons, standing by zebra crossings and pressing the button six times before slowly sloooowly walking across the road, phoning up window fitting companies for my neighbours so that several arrive at the same time, writing letters to the parish council to complain about 'those young upstarts'. That and playing loud offensive oldy (80s) music so that my neighbourhood is driven mad.
I'm looking forward to it all.