Been a while since we did one of these, and we've had some new members since then--and some changes in the lives of our forum veterans, I'm sure--so it's that time again. Time for...introductions!
Tell us about yourself! You can post as much or as little info as you like. I'll break the ice....
What's your name, boy?J. Ryan Evans, good sir. But fellow World Wide Interweb users know me best as Dáin Ironfoot or, 'round other parts, as "Seawolf".
You a boy or a girl?Male.
How ooh-old are you?I'll be 28 in a week. Yikes.
Where you from?Maryland. Lived here all my life, though I was born in Texas.
You got a job, you bum?I'm a government slave with the DLA. Hoping to become slightly less of a slave with the NSA in a few months, though.
Married? Dating?Yes, married for two years.
If anyone wants the full story on how we met and all, let me know. It's a story and a half.
You got kids?We will have our first in less than four months...a girl. I'm excited, yet terrified.
How long you been here?I arrived at CobraCards in January of 2007. (I know, feels like a lot longer, doesn't it?) But that was after a year and a half long gap away from the LOTR TCG community, before which I'd been a longstanding member of Decipher's boards.
And how'd you find us, anyway?A post at Decipher's boards, actually, after I came back from aforementioned absense. I think it was Menace64's fault, so blame him.
How long you been playing card games?I played a tiny bit of
Magic: The Gathering...jeez, back when it first hit the shelves, I guess. A friend of mine was into it and let me borrow some of his cards to play. Then I got into
Star Trek CCG during its early life with a couple of my cousins (and my uncle, funny enough)...I guess that was back in high school, 1995 or 1996-ish. Highlight of that was finding the origial Jean-Luc Picard in a booster pack.
Played a little
Star Wars CCG around that same time, but never really got into it. Fell out of card games in college, until poking around for new
ST CCG stuff one day in 2002 and stumbling across Decipher's website and LOTR TCG. I was hooked...though as a typical penniless college student, I didn't really have the funds to buy much, so I just followed it for a while until finally joining the Decipher forums in...2005, was it? Maybe 2004. Can't remember now.
Anyway, still didn't play it yet, but followed it very closely and got into DCing (which I became most "famous" for in the forums), calling myself a "student of the game". Fell out of DCing and the forums for a while before finding CC around Christmas of '06, and then went full bore back at the game. FINALLY bought some cards and started playing last fall. Loved it even more ever since.
Jeez, I didn't ask for your freakin' life story!I have a tendency to ramble, for those who have been living under a rock and not noticed until now.
What else do you do with your time?Just finished a master's degree after two long years, so since that began...not much.
But I enjoy spending time walking or playing games with my wife, playing with my dog, bowling,
bouldering (though I gotta get back in shape to do that effectively again :-\), target shooting, reading (MAN, have I missed that...got a number of books to catch up on), watching various films and a couple TV shows (
Lost and
Mythbusters, mostly), fantasy sports (usually competing against my wife
), watching sports (at the parks/stadiums, if I can), and of course, making LOTR TCG dream cards.
It's kind of my "thing" around here.
Anything else?Uh...I like seafood?
Yeah yeah, that's great. Got any pictures to share?Sure. Here are a few:
A now-famous avatar I used to have, and still use on MSN Messenger. Yes, the gun is real, and yes,
it's mine.
The rest are big, so I'll just do links....
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My wife and I. Guess what event THIS was?
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Swing dancing at said event. Yeah...don't ask me to do a whole lot of that now. I've probably forgotten more than I learned.
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Me and my then-future bride at Medieval Times.-
Christmas in New York! Yes, really!
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At a ballgame with my wife's sister. True story...I was interested in that sister in high school, and we actually went to prom my junior year. Life turns out so funny sometimes.
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Our daughter. Hopefully I'll be able to post some clearer pictures when she's, you know, out of the womb.
Okay, that's enough. You can all return to your normal lives...AFTER you post about yourself!
Again, as much or as little as you like. I don't expect everyone's going to want to post their pictures, for example, but at least telling us how you got into card games and this little community of ours would be nice.
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