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« on: October 11, 2008, 07:44:55 PM »
I am FATTIUS!!! Behold my girth and tremble!!!
I'm an aspiring author and born-again RPG nerd. I live in North Ogden, UT (which is NOT slums, for those of you who think you are familiar with the Land of Og) with my loverly wife of 14 years and our wonderful and horrible (can you say dichotomy?) five children. I work as an electronics technician in Oman, which is on the eastern coast of the Saudi Arabian peninsula, for the "Great Satan" of the past eight years, Halliburton. (It's actually a great place to work, folks. Don't believe everything you hear...) I am the Dungeon Master for our D&D4E campaign, though I occasionally play Sitrik the human wizard when my oldest boy wants to run things.
I read lots, write some, and in general enjoy words. I plan to leave my lucrative but lonely job in the Middle East to become a poor educator, focusing on English and all possible uses and abuses thereof. Some day, I'll also finish my Electronics Engineering degree, but probably not any time soon, as I have to get both my teaching and English degrees first. As an aside, my career counselor at Weber State, probably Utah's WORST university, thought I was confused about what I wanted to do for a living. Can you believe it?
My faves are:
Tombstone
Homestar Runner
The Wheel of Time (Congrats, Brandon!)
D&D, going all they way back to the original boxed set from the '70s, which I sold on eBay a few years ago for way too little
Lord of the Rings, books and movies (I can appreciate them both equally, you snobs! You know who you are!)
Discovery/History/TLC/Science/Military and all the other edu-taining television out there
Alternative and Rock music
Pizza
and above all else, my family
I'm an aspiring author and born-again RPG nerd. I live in North Ogden, UT (which is NOT slums, for those of you who think you are familiar with the Land of Og) with my loverly wife of 14 years and our wonderful and horrible (can you say dichotomy?) five children. I work as an electronics technician in Oman, which is on the eastern coast of the Saudi Arabian peninsula, for the "Great Satan" of the past eight years, Halliburton. (It's actually a great place to work, folks. Don't believe everything you hear...) I am the Dungeon Master for our D&D4E campaign, though I occasionally play Sitrik the human wizard when my oldest boy wants to run things.
I read lots, write some, and in general enjoy words. I plan to leave my lucrative but lonely job in the Middle East to become a poor educator, focusing on English and all possible uses and abuses thereof. Some day, I'll also finish my Electronics Engineering degree, but probably not any time soon, as I have to get both my teaching and English degrees first. As an aside, my career counselor at Weber State, probably Utah's WORST university, thought I was confused about what I wanted to do for a living. Can you believe it?
My faves are:
Tombstone
Homestar Runner
The Wheel of Time (Congrats, Brandon!)
D&D, going all they way back to the original boxed set from the '70s, which I sold on eBay a few years ago for way too little
Lord of the Rings, books and movies (I can appreciate them both equally, you snobs! You know who you are!)
Discovery/History/TLC/Science/Military and all the other edu-taining television out there
Alternative and Rock music
Pizza
and above all else, my family