The root of the problem

I blame Adam West for my nerdity. The 60's Batman series had such a huge impact on my early childhood development, it's almost humerous. At one point, around the age of eight, I made my dad buy a letter "B" from the hardware store because I fully intended to build my own Batmobile, out of wood mind you, and put it on the side. Because "B" stands for Batmobile.

I know. Facepalm doesn't even get there.

Throughout the vast expanse of my youth, my number one main goal each day was to survive until 3:30 and watch Batman. But it didn't stop there, I had anything and everything Batman related that you could have in the seventies, Mego action figures and every (and I do mean every) accessory to go with them. Comic books, t-shirts, books with records, records without books and Underoos. I made my Grandma make me a dark blue cape with a big yellow bat on the back, I ran around with that thing tied around my neck for years. I was hopelessly spiralling into nerdness without even knowing.

Of course, as I grew older I realized that I was an outcast in a sea of normality and tried unsuccessfully to blend. Thankfully the rest of the world has finally caught up with me and it's fashionable to be into comics and, thanks to Chris Nolan and his Bat films, Batman. But I still don't really fit and that's okay, I'm too old now to care but still young enough to enjoy all the things that send me into geek meltdown and fortunately, my wife thinks it's cute... sort of. Sort of because I'm pulling her down with me. You should see the look on her face when she realizes she's done something nerd. Priceless.

But she's doing it willingly and even surprised me by dropping an interest in learning about D&D which I haven't played in twenty six years or so because I knew absolutely no one that would play with me. Let me correct that, no one that would DM for me and let me play.


Selfish, I know. But now I'm trying to relearn some of the ins and outs and I'm finding that it might just be easier to get her into online RPG's and forget the rulebooks. But then again, you can't have cool little miniatures that way.

But I digress, my nerd runs deep and isn't limited to comics, Batman or D&D, in fact it's virtually unlimited. So you've been warned, there will be vast amounts of fanboy on display here and, if my wife is any indication, it's contagious.