Never ask a lady her age

[Baneslave]

tibbs said:
She calls me Otaku.

My girlfriend calls me Otaku too, you know, so you aren't alone.


Yes, I watch anime, make strange programs, even stranger games, have huge wallpaper animegirls in my room, but am I really Otaku? (I never admit it!) We tend to watch anime together and she is part of our game maker team, so...?

Gandalf Parker said:
My wife loves computers but she HAS threatened to hook my desktop monitor up to an exercise bike so that I have to pedal/exercise to see anything.
Ive thought it best not to mention it often for fear that someone will market such a torture device.

I and my girlfriend made promise that everytime we watch one anime episode / movie / something similar we have to pedal exercise bike throught the whole show.

It is kind of tiring, you know. (But I have lost some weight this summer, yay!)

[Xietor]

The worst "punishment" i have had was having my computer unplugged during a key guild raid when i was the MT. Since it ended the raid for 40 people, it got my attention.

[HoneyBadger]

I've lost a ton of weight since buying the house.

Now, I weigh over 400lbs, I'll readily admit, but, despite being a serious game geek, a pathetic gourmet food junkie, spending 40 hours a week in a chair, and having some fairly debilitating medical problems (I either have fibromyalgia or some other severe form of "holistic" arthritis, and a few other things-nothing life threatening though), I've managed to keep in relatively good shape, somehow. Enough that a 12 hour day of heavy lifting or a 10 mile hike is uncomfortable, but not out of the question, and swimming laps for an hour at a time is actually enjoyable.

However, I was shocked to discover the other day that I can actually (barely) see muscle definition in my gut, so I figure I have to have dropped 50lbs of fat, atleast.

I agree with Xietor-every year that I've been alive has been better, somehow, than the last. Even when it's been more difficult, it's been better, and getting older doesn't mean getting fat and soft.

Getting older...All you really need to give up, for certain, is your vanity. And I'm not saying give up your pride-I'm a strong proponent of pride and it's value. Men-and sometimes women, because society does make things a hell of a lot harder on a woman as she ages than a man-we do have the opportunity to become better as we age. More powerful, secure, confident, and certainly more knowledgeable.

So no, I don't fear getting older...I have qualms about it, ofcourse. The biggest problem I have with it is how it affects casual relationships, because yes, it's something of a caste-system imposed upon us. But that has it's benefits too, as unfair as the drawbacks.

I do fear the degradation of my body-even though I know it's inevitable, and I've known since I was maybe 15 years old, because that's when I started having problems people are supposed to have when they're 50 or 60, but it's a fear I've lived with for a long time. I'm blessed with a body that does have powers, and toughness, and my mind, soul-what have you-have perhaps benefited from what my body has to endure.

Life isn't fair, but that door can swing both ways, and if you can retain the essence of what was valuable about you as a person when you were young, and strengthen and protect that with the wisdom and experience you have the opportunity to gain with age, you can enjoy and be proud of who you are, at any age, and believe me-that is a really special thing.

[Dedas]

Good post, HoneyBadger. Thank you for sharing.

[HoneyBadger]

My pleasure

[llamabeast]

*echoes Dedas*

[HoneyBadger]

Thank you very much!

It's nice to know that atleast the passage of years can give one a few things to say that someone else wants to hear.