About

Welcome to Kestrel’s Aerie. I’m a veteran MMORPGer—my roots are in the Shadow of Yserbius (ImagiNation Network, formerly The Sierra Network), WorldsAway (beta tester) on CompuServe, up through Empiriana, The 4th Coming (beta tester), Asheron’s Call (beta tester, Advocate), EverQuest, Asheron’s Call 2 (beta tester), Horizons (beta tester), EverQuest II, and World of Warcraft (beta tester).

I was also the CompuServe SysAdmin for the WorldsAway forum when it was owned by Fujitsu Entertainment. Subsequently, I was a moderator onAC2HQ.com, the premier independent Asheron’s Call 2 fan site. I moved from there to moderating the Horizons Forums on the Vault Network, then moved to the Wintersebb (Asheron’s Call) forum there. I was promoted to manager, then senior manager, of the Vault forums, before leaving VN at the end of January 2007.

I’m a retired Air Force major, with degrees in psychology (UCLA ’74) and business administration (Missouri ’78). When my last employer made the decision in April 2008 to include my position in its latest cost-cutting move, my wife and I agreed I could be “mostly retired.” We have three grown sons, a wonderful daughter-in-law, and the most beautiful granddaughter in the world. Now, we’ll get to enjoy them more than ever!

Currently, I play World of Warcraft on the Kul Tiras (A) realm, where in June 2008, I moved my main characters (Talonis and Osprey) to a more advanced guild from the small, close-knit guild of friends I helped found.