Heydee all!
Firstly my apologies, I will be getting back onto schedule with this game starting tomorrow. My plan is to post every Tuesday and Friday morning. Every post will move the game along at a round, a turn or more depending on what's appropriate. If we are in combat it will move forward a round, if in exploration mode a turn. This way I can be more structured in how I post, so everyone can plan how they want to post. Hopefully that's acceptable to all.
Secondly, I want to explain my intermittent absences and in particular my absence over the past week and a half. Basically I was having some difficulty with my new supervisor of my job - he came in as COO because we merged with another agency, he's from the "other" agency. Nothing major, he's a nice guy, but it wasn't working out the way it should, and the signs I saw made me nervous. Then a couple days before Easter I received an email from a CEO/President I know of another agency, she wrote "Hope things are going poorly with the merger, can we meet for coffee?"
She had said before that "I want your brain at my table." Being a AD&D guy I worried about that statement for a NY minute, but then figured it out. We set a meeting for last Tuesday, she said nice things about me, and brought in the rest of the executive team to say nice things to me, offered me a VP position, and (here's the kicker) a big ole raise - which doesn't happen in the Social Work field all too often.
I talked to my wife, took her offer, gave my 4 weeks notice on Wednesday to both my incoming CEO and my outgoing CEO - both of which went extremely well. Now, though the work is still a bit overwhelming, the other "stuff" isn't. That's a real big reason that I took the job too, I don't mind 60 or 70 hour work weeks, but when the other stuff, outside the work, gets stressful and overwhelming, then it's time to move on. Well that was a big reason, plus the fact that a little Alethan was on one shoulder, with a little Argennian on the other both screaming "take it you idiot!"
Anyway, my apologies again, real life took quite a weird turn, and I hope that my new schedule for gaming will keep me on track. Honestly besides my wife and four little girls, and the occasional Guinness, these games are what keep me sane! Besides my two oldest daughters (and sometimes the 7yo) I don't have any face to face gaming.
So cheers to you all, thanks for hanging around! And if you couldn't hang around, I fully understand.
Be well everyone and game on!
--Ron--
