After a year of being on the grind my business is doing well. We broke even the first year (lost a little but paid our salaries) and project around 300k in profit this year. I gave up my hobbies (been absent for a bit over a year on gaming) and adjusted my lifestyle to put in the work.

We are really making the difference. After the Super Bowl the NFL contacted me to tell me they were getting calls from people with disabilities (5 families total) asking if we were at the NFL Draft in Kansas City because they felt comfortable coming if we were.

The NFL never had that happen before and we had three people we recognized from the SB. One from ACL. We were recognized by the NFL for our service and locked in the next couple of years with events with them. Also, lots of music festivals, etc. Got the college football playoffs now, too. People love what we do and every event the ADA love we get is so amazing.

I went from loathing corporate life to loving owning my own business and being control of my fate to some degree. And we are truly helping people feel better about living their lives. I’ve never went to bed and slept so easy.

It’s so amazing. When I was shot in Denver with my son I thought I would never live a productive life again. The PTSD and night terrors went on for six months of me not being able to protect my son and him being murdered every time I close my eyes. I got help, took FMLA, and didn’t shovel it down. I had to sleep in other places because I would wake up attacking my wife thinking I was protecting my son from death. Rather than folding though we tackled our dreams, quit our corporate hack lives, refinanced our house for the downpayment and took a million dollar loan.

I never thought I would be thankful in anyway for what happened. Never even considered it a possibility but there it is.

Getting shot at with my son in Denver saved my life.

Tornado hit my house Tuesday. Six trees down, one on my house, and the power pole snapped in two and the live wires killed two massive trees worth of birds and squirrels. No one was injured, the one child home was fine, my mechanic was at the house and acted: great man.

I had the greatest day Tuesday. I happened to get the news of the third tornado to damage my life in three years during the first break of the trial in NYC. They led me to a side room to check my phone. I have insurance and won’t have a home a couple of months again. The real life happy is that I spent the day inside the courtroom for closing arguments of one of the most significant trials in American history.

I am in the hospital. This is one of the few times fever has cleared and I haven’t been with family or friends. Evacuating a flooded facility from the hurricane I became extremely sick sick. Rapidly started losing flesh on my buttocks toward my anus. It got worse and fast. Have an eighty percent chance but you never know I am diabetic and have other factors against me but much love and support.

Just in case I adore many of you I met here. Loved a few (you know who you are) and don’t regret many years spent in the hobby.

See you soon.

NSFL:
https://ibb.co/zJJDqY6

@Warlander

Gonna make it surgeries later.

They thought it was Staph it was Strep A Necrotic Fasciitis. I was doing evacuations and a power chair user was partially under water and they didn’t know how to free his chair restraints. I went in to help and felt a light scratch on my buttocks while I was getting his lap belt undone (typically we stay in our vans but I volunteered on this).

Went to the trailer to shower and it hurt there. The night was chills and fever and it got to be a baseball size lump under my buttock.

Went to the ER to lance it and got it drained they gave me bactrum for Staph.

Two days later of fever and chills had one of my employees drove me home to Texas for a better hospital and went to emergency surgery as it was near my rectum and the tunneling.

Two surgeries later I have a huge open wound no flesh but the wound culture came back with what to target and that worked. Had it got to my rectum my mortality chances would have gone up huge.

Now six weeks or so of healing these open chasms and praying it doesn’t come back or get infected. Should be okay (alive). But given the location and severity bed ridden a long time.

@allthecookies

This is some torch being tossed down is it not?

Like one day you’re brought into a room and told this is a sad job but if you don’t do it the aliens will descend and destroy us all.

One of those mysteries that means very little that we will never have the satisfaction of solving will be the niche Jill the Guest mystery.

I am coming into free-time and a lot of desk work for the foreseeable future or even a bit of travel and me time.

I struggle with application submissions now, where I utterly used to hate the concept of not doing an OC bit. I enjoy something I can set down if needs be

Are there any roster WoD games?

The one genre I think rosters are readily available is the superhero and I struggle with that flavor the most!

@Tributary

Yikes.

Man I must have missed somewhere where Cobalt was a villain. I’ve been around them on and off in different incarnations over the last couple of decades I think and never once even when we’ve staffed on the same games had an issue.

But, meh. That’s me.

@Tez

I’m not savvy, forgive me.

Why does it matter where they used a tool if you like the theme and setting, and that tool assisted them in setting up a game? Seems like less work for game runners and administrators is a good thing in my estimation.

I guess I don’t understand why this is slightly an issue? Is there a fear RP will just be AI output or what? How would this impact enjoyment of the game outside of judgements about the type of people that might us a tool?

Just trying to understand, not trolling. I don’t get the they used ChatGPT in their game creation and why if you like the theme and the game this could ever translate into something negative?

My money was always on Larry Nassar but then he went to prison. I’m fresh out of Jill the guest theories. Glad that guy got shanked and air holed a bunch though.

I can’t stand playing heroes most the time.

I don’t mind at all when my characters die. It doesn’t upset me as I guide them into consequences. The same with failure and losing. I’ve never griped in my years of mushing once about consequences.

I think I would rather play nothing but NPC villains and grey/dark characters if I could have my druthers and ultimate RP enjoyment. I like temporary characters that are impactful but don’t need to run years. I don’t get too attached.

Mostly I play grey hats and in knowing that about my staff I’m always open to staff and consequences and I’m very easy to work with when approached about them. But that’s my perspective. I don’t like playing the hero much, so I don’t need to win, really, ever. In fact, I mostly lose in the end.

I think I’m in the minority there?

So, in the last couple of months I got to witness closing arguments in the NYC of Trump. My son and I went on an epic near 30-day road trip and visiting seven of the ten greatest national parks (Rocky Mountain, Tetons, Yellowstone, Sequoia, Yosemite, Zion, Bryce, and the Grand Canyon). Been an amazing journey.

But today in the line to get my box of bagels the cashier looked over to me and gave me a senior citizen discount, she let me know and I was horrified – I am 44.

So I went white early (late 30’s) and I can’t not sport a beard. I’m bald and keep my head shaved.

Should I dye the beard back red to its natural color? Or is that just a horrible decision for men?

@Roz

I don’t think so?

It may have been someone I RP’ed with. But it would be cool to know if there was a scandal I was involved in I didn’t know about.

So I am guessing it was the person I was in the scene with. I have never edited a TS involved scene and posted one.

Mind you this doesn’t really bother me now but /I/ would never post a log like that. I am way too self conscious about my writing and It may be the poster asked me if I cared and edited log went up and I said I didn’t mind. But yeah if this was a me thing I didn’t post the log.

@Pyrephox

Last post deleted since I read this one.

@Kassien

I have it already. Locked it down for three years.

Current:
Arx - Ahriman
Game w/ Zombies - Eddie (roster)

What I can Remember:
Arx - Abbas, Ahriman, Gunter (Gunther?) played by Danny D
Thundergulch - Nayati, Thomas (he was a serial killer never got to reveal that in the game and was an NPC slated to die when players figured it out)
The Reach - Pyongyang (staff), Sandeep, Mason
SWII - Head Judge, Han Solo, Drazil
Firan - Asishon

And many more over the years I can’t recall.

Abbas was touched or marked or something by Despair. Right before he died he was about to take over House Ischia/Seraceni and had sacrificed a ship full of prisoners stranding them out in the ocean. He died before that occurred, but I did get to add a House to the game which was cool.

Ahriman was in a body timeshare with a demon.

Gunther was a Dwarf in a past life, I think? I actually wish I would have gone after his secrets and uncovered more about him. Such a great bit.

Not a peeve I guess.

My hands are killing me from my earlier years breaking them in MMA overseas. I have a hard and slow time typing. Does anyone pose through speech to text? If so, what device? And it is it too much of a pain?

I guess my peeve is at me for taking too long to type too large poses. Although thank goodness for ASYNC.

@Jumpscare

I just picked up and iPad Pro on a recommendation of the speech to text performance and will give it a shot.