Mitch's Hobbies

This is what I like to do with my "copious free time:"

• Music
  • I sing tenor with the Millis Community Chorale
  • I play trombone with the Southeast Massachusetts Community Concert Band (SMCCB). Laura plays flute and saxophone.
• I enjoy Simulation & Roleplaying Games
• History
• Reading Science Fiction & Fantasy, as well as historical fiction
• Movies
• Skiing

Comments cheerfully accepted...

Simulation & Roleplaying Games

I have had a long history of gaming stemming from an interest in history (and its immediate question of "what if"). I have played many game systems and games. Roleplaying grwe out of an active imagination and frustrated acting ability. For simulation ages, I found I had to learn strategy and tactics because I have a long history of mediocre die rolling...

My current gaming activities include:

• role-playing games with the Space Vermin RPG Association (hey, it's a name). This has included Battletech, Shadowrun, Traveller, Space:1889 and a few minor campaigns. Some of this is supported online:
  • The log of our Space:1889 campaign and a description of the group's privateer are available online.
  • Some of my Battletech character's After Action Reports, personal log entries, and letters home are available online.
  • A description of ShadowRun Boston of the early 2050s is available online.
  • A variety of support material and adventures for GDW's Twilight:2000.

• Modern & WWII air combat simulations using the Air Power and Fighting Wings gaming systems. In particular, I'm involved in a few PBEM games, one of which I am running.

  I also developed for the Fighting Wings (WW2 period) games:

  • Over 100 additional ADCs (aircraft descriptions) for French, German, Polish, Czech, English, Japanese, Italian, Russian, American, Australian, and Dutch WW2 aircraft.
  • Descriptions of minor nation air forces.
  • WW2 Air campaign descriptions

  For a description of these (and many other) gaming systems, see Explanations.

• Napoleonic naval minatures (could Hornblower have done that?) in a variety of systems. Currently, I am involved in a campaign game based in the Carribean in 1806. The game is Free Trade and Sailor's Rights, by Mark Campbell and Tom Ballou; we're using a game called Clear for Action by Langton to handle battles.

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Movies

Ah, the silver screen, that delightful little window that provides us a glimpse at how we think life should be.
Or, rather, how Hollywood executives think we want to see how life should be.

Favorites: Casablanca, Kelly's Hero's, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Star Wars Trilogy, the Indiana Jones Trilogy, Wizards, The Guns of Navarone, The Wizard of Oz, and Gone with the Wind.

I have seen a lot of:

• westerns
• war movies
• science fiction (the good, the bad, and the ugly)

Movies got me interested in history. I would pester my father with questions about "why they were there?" in the first place or "what happens next?" after the end of the movie. He suggested I try looking up the answer. It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship...

Have you seen Pulp Fiction? Did it strike you as wierd? Does this explanation help any?

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