Gaean

I wrote the stuff below years ago (like 2016 or so).  Assuming I'm accepted, I'll update it appropriately.

I'm a retired software designer and technical team leader.  I worked for a large computer firm for 30-years and now I'm living in Texas, spending crazy amounts of time playing Guild Wars 2.  I have a lovely wife, @Velvet Homicide who is also a member of HOPE; 4 kids (2 adults living too far away and 2 teenagers living at home); 2 grandchildren (also too far away); and 3 cats (who frequently interfere with my playing by turning off my monitor or sitting on my hands).

As I'm not exactly a newborn, I've done a lot of different things in my life, including travel (mostly Europe), wrote lots of code and got some patents, woodworking, origami, board gaming, computer gaming, home and appliance repair (quite amateur), child rearing (not done yet, but I've survived so far), and alcoholic drink mixing (a hobby brought on by the previous item).

In HOPE, I'm the GW2 Division Commander. The buck (and the doe) stop here! (Well, not always, but so it goes.)

In GW2, the game, I'm mostly focused on PvE things including crafting, dungeons, world exploration, gathering, dungeons and causing general mayhem.  I also dabble in WvW, but I have no idea what I'm doing there. I tend to be a geek about games I get interested in and so I have a pretty fair bit of knowledge about GW2 in general.  Feel free to ask me about pretty much anything. I'd be happy to help (read as talk your ear off) about just about anything.  Some times I even know what I'm talking about.

My GW2 accounts are: Gaean.4352 (main account) and fletch.3597 (chest farming, guild maintenance).