Yeah, I've played D&D. Why do you ask?

Okay. I had to do this...

( TableTop RPG Memeage )

Oooookay. Now, this wasn't a really fair test. I've been doing tabletop gaming off and on since I was 9. Friggin' nine years old.

I hit every stage mentioned here during some time in my life. When I was just starting out, I was the Evil HackMaster Power player. As I matured, I became more interested in playing weird stuff. ROLEPLAYING weird stuff. My gaming friends will go on for hours about characters such as the crippled midget doctor or Fobch'kava Jones or Tyrus Arborium, the cleric who so desperately wanted to be a druid or the right handed gunfighter - who had his right hand amputated before I ever played him in a campaign. :)

Folks, if you haven't figured it out yet, I'm nine ways of seriously f***ed up.

And I rather like it.

-DH

I'm really honestly not trying to get fired, here. Really

Today, I called the CEO a prick.

Not to his face, mind. Although if the circumstance was the same, I might.

Now, the explaination.

Being the CEO gets you some real perks. People send you little gifts all the time. Hardware to play with. Software. Sometimes just some expensive coffee beans or a shirt.

It may be good to be the king, but the CEO rocks as well.

I've taken to guessing what little toy the CEO gets based on the packaging. Just a little game I play.

Last week, I guessed that he got a heavy t-shirt or a hoodie or something like that. I share my findings with his Admin, and she tells me how far off I was.

This time, I was way, way off. It was an iPod Mini.

Now, I don't really like iPods. They have a cool factor, but I'll never own one.

Then, the admin shared the CEO's comment on getting an iPod Mini. "That was awful nice of them, but this makes the third one I got."

Unbidden, out of my mouth, came the words. "What a prick."

Now, the CEO is an genuinely nice guy. I'm certain he wasn't gloating when he said those words - It was just a statement of fact. I know this.

My words were jealously - nothing more. In my position, I usually get taken out to lunch once every couple of months, or some Zip-Zap cars in the shape of the UPS van. And more pens than you can... well... shake a pen at.

I don't want an iPod Mini - But I'd sure like the option of turning one down. :)

So, I'm hoping the CEO might forgive me. In fact, I'm banking on it. :)

-DH