End of an Era

I’ve worked at Pegasus Games for a really long time. So long, in fact, that years ago I was immortalized in the Dork Tower comic strip as Bill Blyden, Manager of Pegasaurus Games.
But ‘time waits for no one’ as the saying goes, and as I grow older I find that I have less patience for some things. More importantly, I’ve discovered that, in my 50s now, I no longer have the body of a twenty — or even thirty year-old. Even a half-day of standing on the carpeted concrete floors so common in retail establishments and convention halls is tough on my feet. I still walk to work most days, but lately, walking home has been a real chore, tired and footsore from standing for long periods.

I added up the time I’ve spent working at Pegasus. It came in three stints: from 1984 to 1993, I went from simple cashier to assistant manager to manager, and was partly responsible for opening Pegasus’s second store on Madison’s west side — the only Pegasus location still operating today. Seeing years of retail work stretching out ahead of me, I left in early 1993 to take a graphic design job in Texas. That ended badly, and I moved back home, living with my parents for the first few months until I found a rooming arrangement I could afford. I reapplied at Pegasus then, and in a couple of months a shift opened up, and I was back at it from 1994 to 1999. At that time, I was offered a full-time writing job of a journalistic nature: I researched and wrote articles on...

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