Howdy All

I guess I'm one of the young pups, 38, am married for about a year so no
kids yet.  My wife tolerates my gaming very grudgingly so it is mostly
e-mail stuff.  I first started gaming in 1972 with 1914 by AH.  I was an
avid gamer all through the seventies and eighties amassing a large
collection, 300+, of games.  Grad School and Post-doc slowed that down in
the late 80's and 90's.  I must say that I am not a collector, I do not own
a game I haven't punched and played and have never sold a game.  This is
despite my wifes best efforts to get me to sell my games and sci-fi books.
I tend toward strategic games; WIF, WIE, Empires in Arms.  I do some
role-playing, in fact I'm running a DragonQuest game by e-mail that needs
some new life.  The current players are overcommitted to other things
(Kids, job, house, etc, where are their prioroties) and can't participate
enough so if anyone is interested let me know.  The only other games I am
playing in are a Diplomacy e-mail game I play and two Diplomacy e-mail
games I'm running.

I have a Ph.D. in Drosophila Molecular genetics which explains why I'm
working on a Database of Mouse Gene Expression.  Go figure.  I am at the
Jackson Lab in Bar Harbor Maine and have been here for almost three years.
I do not know any of the other players, I don't think.  I need to review
the list better.  I have had a few e-mails with Alan over the Grognard quiz
but have not gamed with him.  I look forward to a great game of Empires.
It is one of my favorite games and I have played it often, the last time
was three years ago.  Six player defeat in the East, I was Poland.  I
finished second and managed to get the Mongols all the way to Ile de France
through overactive pillaging of my border provinces.  It was fun.

Dale