Thanks for the good wishes, Bhagpuss!

Retirement is something everyone handles differently. I feel pretty happy with being gainfully unemployed at the moment, but it has only been a couple of months. I do really enjoy having nothing particular to do and no particular place to go, though. But I know several folks who have bounced off of the retirement life pretty hard: either struggling to find purpose or going right back to work.

AD&D was a weekly thing for most of about a 20 year span for me: it is interesting to me how many people who I find interesting once played this pen and paper game. But I should qualify that I was never MENSA qualified: Like Long John Baldry once sang: I’m almost a genius… well, that’s what I claim. My actual genius-level friend who introduced me to D&D lasted through a Master’s degree in computing science: he was much more University-capable that I am.