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I am married to another gamer (have been for 18 years) and we met through Gencon. I have a MS in engineering and serve as a technical director for around 80 engineers.  We own our home.  We have 4 cats.  My friends, family and co-workers know I play D&D but I do not access websites or do gaming activities at work.

Keith

Guess I should throw down. 

I'm Dustin, and, I'm a geek through and through.

My primary day job is that of an IT Systems Engineer.  I design the servers, configure the network, and keep all that happy stuff humming quietly in the background for the mid-sized law firm that employs me.  It's a feast-or-famine kind of job as far as actual WORK (projects, etc) goes.  Which is no small part of why I'm sometimes here in the community all day - and other times I'm gone for a week or two (buying 40-odd new computers, building images for them, while also installing a new set of servers and re-configuring the network, for example is a current feast.  When that's all done I'll probably have another month of busywork - training people on Windows 7, then several months of famine and be bothering the forums again. )

I also work part-time in my FLGS.  I started there because I stepped up and introduced them to the RPGA with Xen'Drik Expeditions.  The owner was cold to the idea of D&D in the store (having had some players a few years previous that would play open-to-close on weekends, and turned into a band of wnadering gypsies at the time.  Seriously.  There were croc-pots involved) at first, but when I described the way RPGA play works (4-5 hour slots, 6 players, in, out, done) it turned out to be something he was all but begging another of his employees to envision and create from scratch.  Right time, right place.

From there, he took a liking to me, and now I work at least one day a week there - just to earn myself a nice discount on games, books, etc.  Having a little extra money doesn't hurt either, since the wife is working her way through her last semester of school before becoming a teacher.

At home, I'm rasing an 11-month old, GORGEOUS little girl who, like D9's child, has a complete set of plush dice that she got for Christmas.  She's particularly fond of the D10 and d% dice.  My wife is a minor gamer - enjoying board and card games, especially if they take an hour or less to play.  D&D isn't really her bag, though I suspect she'd get involved in D&D Encounters if we could find someone to take baby off our hands on Wednesday nights.  Otherwise her attention span simply isn't long enough to hand a 3-4 hour game (by her own admission).

I think that covers my "Day Life" pretty well, though I'm willing to answer questions.

Also: Dragon9 - I dunno about Mnah Mnah, but my daughter is a huge fan of (Do You Wanna) Date My Avatar.  You should give it a try. 

Feb 6, 2010 -- 10:09AM, RCanine wrote:

I'm a Web Application Developer / Front-End Engineer for a sports entertainment company you probably all have heard of.

There's only one company that I klnow that says "sports entertainment."  That's the WWE.  And I know that because pro wrestling has been part of my geek credentials since I was 5 years old.

Feb 6, 2010 -- 4:43PM, Dragon9 wrote:

Feb 6, 2010 -- 10:09AM, RCanine wrote:

I'm a Web Application Developer / Front-End Engineer for a sports entertainment company you probably all have heard of.

There's only one company that I klnow that says "sports entertainment."  That's the WWE.  And I know that because pro wrestling has been part of my geek credentials since I was 5 years old.

That's not it. I'll give you a hint though: this is a pretty big week for us.