I'm forty-six as of January 14 2006, in other words, past the peak of just about any characteristic you can name and on the long downward slide to… well, I’ll tell you when I get there. My life is work, family, and an occasional computer game. I've been a software development manager for way too long and find more and more that Dilbert's boss is an admirable role model, in that it's easier to be an idiot than to deal with people. In other words, I’m your typical mid-life-crisis angst ridden kind of guy.

I am married to Kate and have two children, Brianna (14) and William (12). Kate graduated from Caltech, is a great cook and plays a lot of tennis. Brie is a voracious reader, loves small furry rodents, and plays a lot of tennis. Will kicks my butt at most computer games with "twitch" factor, likes sports, and plays a lot of tennis. 

On games, I was first exposed to Fantasy Role Playing about twenty years ago at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y., where I functioned as an officer in the University Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF) Games club. This interest spread to more traditional war games as well, and eventually to computer games. The club's primary responsibility was to rag on the Student Government, who took themselves much too seriously, with a secondary emphasis on hanging out in the student union and making one corner of the third floor (the corner housing the student government offices, by strange coincidence) a place to be studiously avoided by the rank and file. After that I graduated and had to work for a living, which has been much less enjoyable. 

You can reach me at dave@dickieville.com