About Me
I am a 57 year old retired statistician and database programmer. My last job was supervising the Consumer Product Safety Risk Management System (CPSRMS, or as I liked to call it, “Crappy Mess”), a portion of which feeds into the public database on SaferProducts.gov.
These days I play lots of board games and fiddle around with computer programming. Playing board games lets me live the childhood I missed because so much messed up shit was going on. I love programming, I’m like the guy with an elaborate model train set up in his basement, but mine is all made with code.
For board games, I mostly play Tuesdays and Thursday nights at The End Games, and other less regular or irregular game groups. My favorite games are probably Cosmoctopus and Windmill Valley, but I have a constantly growing collection of games I play, and I often play games other people bring to these events.
I’ve gotten back into RPGs, and I started a campaign using the One Ring RPG. The One Ring is designed for use in Middle-Earth, and we’re doing a campaign in Moria. I used to play D&D, but I don’t want to continue with that system. I really don’t like Wizard’s of the Coast’s attitude toward their customers, and I find the quality of their books to be really poor. I have some ideas for a Pathfinder campaign in a homebrew world, but it’s going to be a while before I get back in gear on the Pathfinder rules and get the campaign running. I also have an idea for a Free Range Charlottesville campaign with kids riding around on bicycles in 80s Charlottesville. And I still have that classless, feat-based D&D I wrote sitting on my hard drive.
For programming I’m currently working on an interactive fiction engine in Python. I hope to recreate Adventure and Zork with it, and then I have an idea for a game of my own called MacGuffin Delver. Then I will probably revamp my T-Games suite with the interactive fiction and the solitaire construction kit ideas I have been working on.