"It's an escape into another person and another reality, but at the end of it, you still get to check out and go back to a normal life," he says, thinking that ought to be the selling point of just about any hobby. "It's like here, but if you got to opt at when you got tired of eating the same fish for four days in a row because no bigger venison has stumbled across the place."

"Thirty nine really isn't so much of a difference from me anyhow, unless you had me when you were all of eight."