Five Belated Questions
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1. why baseball?
A large number of reasons. But the first time I can ever remember liking baseball was seeing a bright red firstbaseman’s glove in my parents’ closet. I asked my mother about it, and she said my it was my father’s. He had won it in a radio contest, where he correctly identified Pictures of Matchstick Men all scrambled up. She said he wanted me to have it, and that instant I decided I wanted to play first base.
A few years later, I realized that she meant my natural father, and not my stepfather, with whom we were living at the time. But he bought me a Dodgers jacket, and taught me why the Yankees were both cool and not cool. I was hooked.
He never played catch with me, though. That made me sad.
2. does working in games make you want to play more, or less?
More. Specifically, I want to play games of different types than those I’m working on, so that I can better apply game theory to my work. I play at least one kind of game every day, iven if it is on my cell phone.
3. what’s your favorite D&D setting (doesn’t have to be a published one) and why?
I remain enamored of the Greyhawk setting, even though I’ve worked on it. But all told, I love the world my college GMs put to gether the most, which was Greyhawk, with Forgotten Realms content alongside homebrewed countries and civilizations. I could make a character and play with them tomorrow; the campaign is still going 15 years after I stopped playing, and I joined it 4 years in.
4. is there a meal that you think you cook really well, and what is it?
Just one? I was raised in a family of chefs and restaurantuers, and learned to cook for myself and my mother at the age of 8. But I make a mean pasta sauce, and can whip up a batch in either 20 minutes, 2 hours, or 2 days.
5. i think we all have blind spots about our physical selves. (my mental image of me is several clothes sizes smaller than actual size.) what do you imagine about yourself to be better/worse until you get a dose of reality?
I’m overweight, and not in the dark about it. But I still consider myself to be in relatively good shape, since I still have a weighlifter’s build, and my doctor isn’t yelling at me. My fiction is that I can drop a bunch of weight in a couple months if I were to start working out again.
The funny part is that I can, but the reason I got as big as I am is that I took a desk job, and stopped working warehouses. I’d have to add back in about 2 hours in the gym every other day, and start road work again to do so. When I come home at night, my brain is full of spreadsheets,a nd I just want to play video games until I pass out.
Needs me a woman, I does.