My old Junior High School gaming group has been in touch and playing together since I was 12, so a bit over 40 years now. Some 16 or 17 years ago we'd spread far and wide enough across the States that we had to start gaming via Play by Post if we were going to at all. In 2006, we started "LakeCon." Late each October we all get together at a cabin here in Arkansas (some travelling 10 or 12 hours by car, some have to fly as the drive would be a day or more, and some 'fairly' local). We commemorated LakeCon 10 in 2016 with a tee shirt that I designed by taking an architectural rendering of the cabin where we gather and putting in a looming dragon. I was asked to do another for our pandemic gathering this year...

Also, I'm learning to wake surf (since I'm not close enough to real surf to make learning that practical).

Wow! So many interesting people here, with so much excellent life experience! I'm very mundane by comparison, I'm afraid.

I'm 53 years old, so somewhere in the middle of the pack age-wise. I've been playing RPGs since the Blue Box edition of D&D back in the 70's. I've dabbled in a few different systems - D&D, Shadowrun (1st Edition), HERO, Fantasy Wargames, Savage Worlds, CHILL, and a few others.

I've been a mental health counselor since the early 1990's, and now manage an outpatient community mental health center in an economically depressed, rural area in the mid-southern U.S.

My wife and I have been married 24 years, and we've got a 17 year old daughter and a 6 year old son.

Though I've always loved computers and what one can do with them I mapped by hand with colored pencils until I found CC2, and jumped into computer assisted cartography with both feet.

Maidhc is pronounced "Mike," and O Casain is - as best I can tell - the original Gaelic of my family name.

I guess that's about it.