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Thanks. I will. I like the clubs section on here a lot. looks to be lively.

@Asakura Momo Welcome back! I hope you'll have a pleasant new stay

I am 35 and I started watching anime when I was 12. Funnily enough it was ninja scroll the movie my brother and I first watched together.

Career plan? I think I remember having a Plan, but it didn't even survive through college. My original idea was to finish HS then go to a community college nearby that had classes creditable towards the University of California system. I'd take the general-education and lower level classes at the CC where it was cheap(ish) and then transfer to UCI to take the "real" courses and complete a 4 year C&IS degree. Seemed like a good Plan at the time. Anyway, I took the anthropology 101, English-lit, and phys-ed at the CC to get that stuff out of the way. Took a couple low-level electrical engineering (digital) courses towards the degree too. That was fun.. the class project was building a computer out of NAND gates. My bits were the ALU and I/O. (No pun intended.) Also took a physics class that had transferable credits. So far so good. Unfortunately the Plan only survived about a year and a half until I ran out of money. I never believed in going into debt for education expenses (or anything else for that matter) and I'd thought I could do part-time work for cash while going to school. Turns out I'm not that gifted. Work OR studying.. trying to do both made a mess of everything. So I took a semester off and started working for a mini-computer OEM doing system software and tech support. Made some money but the company went out of business. Not really a problem as I was planning on leaving anyway & I'd just go back to school a bit earlier than planned. Summer break was coming up however & I decided I didn't need the vacation so much as more tuition/book money. Fortunately the planets aligned - literally - and I found a job changing reel-to-reel tapes on the Voyager Neptune encounter at JPL. (JPL is only about 20 minutes away by freeway.) The work was work a trained could do but it paid well and fit with my future plans. The encounter and data playback was only a couple months and at the end of summer I'd have some money and could go back to school and finish the degree. But my boss liked my work & at the end of the Voyager encounter asked me if I'd be interested in a full-time job in realtime ops in the NOC there in the SFOF. Wasn't at all part of my original Plan but hey, NASA, so I took it. I figured it would look good on the resume, was good work experience, and if it didn't work out I could always go back to plan A. The next 40 years were a blur. Always something to do and more work than people to do it. Never did finish the degree. Hopefully someday I'll be able to retire. Career? Plan? What plan?

Krampus, just like every year. LOL XD

Anime is good medicine. I hope you're feeling better soon.

Love it, love the anime adaptation, and the video games... Honestly, where it all began for me on my journey of anime and RPGs...even mysteries.. As monokuma says! "huhuhu!" (I tried to duplicate their laugh...^^;...)

It can be said that it is my whole childhood. It's great