So...

Yeah, it's been a while. I'll admit it: Battletech wasn't the best choice for a gaming series. Unfortunately, when you'd have battles that last two or three sessions (and that's with me cutting some corners for the sake of speed), there's just not that much you can put in a play-by-play. So we didn't even get to the exciting and interesting parts of the mini-campaign, when the players got to Hyde (a water world on the Steiner/Marik border; made "famous" when Cranston Snord led his mercenary unit, Snord's Irregulars, on a garrison there. They dug up a bunch of beach looking for buried treasure and managed to turn that into an advantage against a raiding party sent to the planet) and spent some time out of their 'Mechs exploring an old Star League base. Alas...

Anyway, I like to think I have a good excuse for being silent so long. Well, three good excuses, really. That's right: I've got three kids now. That's how long it's been... I have some content to post here, but, uh, no promises on how active I'll be. I was advised that you just have to make it through the first five years and then you can get your life back, but while my eldest is past that milestone now, my youngest is very new, starting the clock back over. I love my kids, and I accept the trade I made, but I definitely miss playing table top games. Or seeing my friends.

When I told Amenon that I was going to have my first child, he mourned my death, which I pooh-poohed a bit. I am willing to admit that, at least in my case, he wasn't so wrong. Children are great, but they can be a bit all-consuming. One does sort of slowly get their life back, or they are able to grow a new life around what they do for their child, but I could forgive anyone who thought that I might have died. I largely disappeared for a long time, after all. I'm trying now to gradually claw a few things back, but that's definitely not easy. Time is always the resource we expect we'll have more of than we do.

I should probably talk to my old GM and get back those Battletech books that I left with him. It's going to be a long time yet before I can do much table top again. <sigh>