Can you pinpoint the exact moment in time where you grew to like something?  Where you knew you’d develop a desire for something?  A singular moment in an infinite stream of experiences and passing seconds we take for granted, moving faster than life itsself.  For MMORPG gaming (massively multiplayer online roleplaying games) I can.  The obsession began nearly ten years ago, in Best Buy, with the exact same artwork shown in the banner above.  I had watched my cousin play Asheron’s Call for no more than a lazy half hour one afternoon, and I can remember being stunned by the concept:  an online world in which many players worldwide played and interacted in.  Gaming for me up to this point had been a solitary activity, or one done on a simple multiplayer mode with one’s siblings.  This was new.

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When we found out we were pregnant, we figured we were about 8 or 9 weeks.  Then, with the first midwife appointment, she calculated we were actually 11 weeks and booked us into a scan the very next week for the 12 week marker.  Having looked at the photos in the wonderful pregnancy book Mark’s uncle Roland got for us, I could see that the 12 week old fetus would look like a mini human being already, complete with arms, legs, fingers, and toes.

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