I’m a bit of a nerd. I’ll admit that. As proof of my nerdness I spent this past weekend hanging out with friends from my hometown playing Dungeon and Dragons. Yes, the pretend you are level 12 wizard or paladin and fight monsters D&D. I’ve played off and on with these guys in one form or another over the past fifteen years, give or take. I don’t think we ever actually finished a campaign, but it’s been more about getting together,forgetting our troubles and just having a good time. Recently we started upagain through the marvel of modern technology. We connect every other week or so through Skype, tell bad jokes, rib each other mercilessly and generally havea good time. Last weekend was great because we were able to do it face to face.

I won’t go into details of monsters fought (acid spitting lizard men) or player character deaths (there were two). I’ll just mention that we stayed up until 3:30 AM a couple nights in a row getting our nerd on. In between battling dragons (for those in the know there was a black one) there was also swimming and beer. There was also GenCon on Sunday which was used as the initial excuse to get together. I really had only one reason to want to go to GenCon and that was to get myself an utilikilt. I’ve been eyeballing them for several years now. When I found out that Utilikilt had a booth at the convention the money was already spent before I got there. Of course like any good D&D nerd I bought new dice, too. Don't worry the picture isn't of the new dice.