Looking back...the long view...
How do you sum up a year much less a decade? 2010 started out with the millennium, a look to the 21st century. I had been at my job for 2 years, attended my first LARP convention and was still living with my parents. I was table-topping every weekend and thought I had life kinda figured out. Then came love or at least my first real relationship. My first campaign LARP: 1936:Horror which I will always regard with joy and happiness since it has led to the formation of many friendships in the following decade. As the decade progressed, I found my life changing, I moved out of my parents to live on my own, 9/11 happened and my work life got more...interesting. I had come to accept myself as who I am, I gained confidence to start dating and eventually found the love of my life. I watched in happiness as my friends also grew as people, in their relationships and their live. I felt bad about those who didn't. I was saddened by the loss of friends and loved ones. Of important people in history of relationship that did not last...of people I lost contact with. My life got busy with three of the best LARP's I have ever been a part of. 1948: Signals, ARC and Brassy's Men. I made friends with larpers from Boston and Chicago and everywhere in between. I went on a trip to Iraq and changed divisions at work. I have become the jaded cynical government employee I have strived for :-) But more importantly, I met the woman who would become my best friend, my soulmate...my wife geochick! As the year and the decade draw to a close, i find my self down a path to a brand new adventure...that of father. The next decade is unwritten, history has yet to be made and I look forward to it. While there have been difficulties in the decade of 2000-2010; for me it will always be the sight of my newborn son that I will hold dear...and the optimism that it represents. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL...