Dave

Whew. Flew home from Los Angeles on a 4 hour flight. Took the kids to the pool for three hours. I've just spent the last 4 hours catching up on MUD-Dev and taking the beating of my life. I refuse to respond to a lot of it. One of these guys was just so incredibly nasty I couldn't believe it. I wonder how he made it passed the moderator. There were more presonal attacks than actual commentary on my posts.

Barry Kearns is an incredible jackass. Read his recent blog Nailing E3 to the wall, dated May 10, 2005. If that's the kind of guy he "worships", no wonder he felt free to treat me like dirt on a public forum.

Whatever, it's pretty typical liberal ranting. "I hate people, they're all so stupid. No one feels as deeply as I do". Even his proposed virtual world economy is a socialist system. Good luck with that one, fuck head.

So, all of this got dumped on top of the real kicker for the day - my freind, Dave.

Yeah, the same one I mention in my First Post. Dave had some marital issues for a while. There was at least one affair that I know of, but I thought that was over and done with. Apparently not.

Dave has been seeing some little honey named "Penny" while he's still married. He apparently gave the marriage "a couple months" to start getting better, but since it hasn't he's just putting an end to it.

He told his wife he wanted a divorce, and she said, "If you aren't happy, I won't make you stay, but this isn't what I want." Apparently it is what he wants.

He's leaving his wife and two young sons. I guess what shocked me most was his demeanor as he related all of this to me on the ride home from the airport. He was just so cavalier about the whole thing. He seemed happy that he was getting the chance to start his life over.

I haven't confirmed it yet, but he apparently talked about some of this to one of our other gaming buddies, Shad. I phoned Shad to talk about it (he's been in Nevada on vacation) and it sounds like Penny is married with kids, too (though, she's apparently been seperated from her husband once before).

So, here we are, all primed to destroy two families - at least two children's lives - so that two very selfish people can feel good. Did I mention that he's moving out next week, the same week as his oldest son's birthday? Happy Birthday, Ben.

Well, I've already talked to most of the rest of the group, and I told my wife tonight; I'm out. If they want to keep playing on Friday nights they can all go somewhere else and play with Dave, because he's not welcome here anymore. I won't hold it against the guys if they choose to "support Dave" on this thing. Not all of them have my strength of character or any kind of perspective on what it means to be a father and a husband, much less what it's like to grow up under divorced parents.

I just get sick every time I think of the kids. The oldest boy is a year older than I was when my parents destroyed my world. I cried and begged my dad to stay. I cried for days. How do you sit down in front of your 6 year old son and ask him to choose which parent he wants to go and live with? What kind of chicken-shit piece of garbage puts that responsibility on the shoulders of a child?

Well, Dave isn't doing that at least, he doesn't want to have to take the kids. He's just going to let Robin take them, though I'm sure he'll see them, from time to time.

I'm very sorry for his Wife, Robin, and his two sons, Ben and Calvin. I tried calling the house tonight to talk to her and offer some kind of support, but I got the answering machine. I noticed it's been changed recently. It's her voice and it doesn't mention "we", just "I". Christ, you guys.