Introduce yourself!!!

[n8dawg]

sup,sup this is my sh!t my name is nathan aka n8dawg aka positive nrg
born and raised in the bricks(newark n,j)
served a little over 4 years in the navy got out and started this computer thang have been doing this for about 4 years, my certs a+ and mcse(nt)
latley i have been realy getting involved with my music witch has limted me in my time to spend on windrivers. but i still love ya guys and girls. i think my love for music has enabled me to cure my addiction

[Elbatcho]

Hey Cobra sorry about your sister dude...

Well where do I begin, my name is Adam, I am 28 born on March First 1973 in Middlesbough England. I was one of Triplets, but my two sisters died shortly after birth. The Doctors told my Mum to say good bye to me because they thought I was not going to live. I was only 4 Ibs when I was born. We spent the next five years living in Northeast Engalnd. Right before we moved down to Windsor my Mum my brother Alex. He weight 10 Ibs when he was born, and my dad call's him fat head to this day. We spent the next four years living in Windsor, and then my Dad got a Job working for Revlon in a beach twon called eastborne. I think at one point in time the entire elderly population live in eastborne. It's just infested with old people. We lived there until I was 13, then my Dad got a job offer in Philadelphia USA. My Mum also found out she was pergnat with my sister. So we packed up everything and came across to the united states. In December of that year my Mum had my Sister Ashleigh, Ashleigh is an American Citizen, we are all still British Subjects.

I hated American high school, I started drinking at 14 and smoking at 15. I became a huge social out cast until it beacem cool to be a metal head and then I found myself popular. This lasted to my senior year when the bottom fell out of heavy metal because of rap. I decided that I was not really ready for collage so I joined the USMC.

I loved being in the Marines, I was good at it. I went to Sniper school but had an accident so i had to opick a new MOS. So I became a supply admin and met my first fiance. I got an opatunity to become an Instructor for the MCT program out in san diago and really had a lot of fun doing that. Then the dark days came. How long does it take for your life to fall apart. For me it took 4 days. My fiance broke up with me. A young private brought racismim charges up against me and my green card was found not to be valid when I joined the Marine corp. The green card was what helped me stay in the marine corp because I was able to resign my contract as a reservist. I came home two day's before thankgiving and drank myself to death. Yes the night before thankgiving I drank so much I died and my best friend from high school had to give me mouth to mouth.

I started collage in January and became an Animation major at temple. I used my GI bill money to pay for collage. Even though my father was a VP of his company. I started working at Stapes repairing computer, and soon I was working full time as a manager durring the day and going to collage full time at night and on my day's off. I met my second fiance at staples and we dated for four years. After collage I decided I liked computers better than animation and went to CLC for networking. I got my first tech job with Users inc and finished my eight years with the Marines the first month I was working with that comapany.

My parents moved to Dallas in 1997 and my brother and I lived togeather. In 1998 I went to Oklahoma and then to dallas on a buissness trip. My life fell apart again as I found out my Fiance of Four years was cheating on me. I lost all my friends because she stacked them against me. I was accused of a crime, we had a sniper shooting at people and my ex's new boyfriend told the local police it was me. My only saving grace was while I was being questioned there was another shooting. My life was in the tolet again.

At users I met new people and became fast friends with them. My brother was sent to Dallas because he didn't have a job and my dad was sick of paying for him to do nothing. My dad is now a CEO of a pharmasutical company. They moved to Boston in 1999. I met Ann through my new friends. My bestfriend Jimmy used to date her. I now work for first Union as a Network admin, I am pulling really good money, I am engaded to be married, with the most wonderful girl in the world. I love her more than words can say. I have great loyal friends and my digital life I have great friend here on Windrivers, I love you Guys.

The future, I plan to get married, make $100,000 a year by the time I am 35 and become an american citizen. I would also like to meet as many of you as possible.

Well thanks for reading.

[Sandman72]

My name is Jason. I am 28 years old living in the winter wonder hell named michigan. (michigan really isn't that bad. I just hate snow) I am actually a transplanted Texan. I am married and have 2 children. My daughter is 4 and my son is 1. I found out about windrivers a few years ago when I started in the field as a tech at Best Try. I guess I am a closet windrivers addict. I am usually on here a lot and just read the posts without commenting. Currently I work for EDS at a GM site. My mother is alive and well. My father is not. (suicide 10 years ago) I have no brothers or sisters. Thats pretty much all there is to know about me.

[Lycia]

Name is Nerina.

Moved to San Francisco after several years in a hell hole of a city.

In relationship for 14 years, then it ended when the person was caught doing something I had asked them not to do. In new relationship.

Got into computers several years ago and found that I have a knack for computers as my Dad had a knack for fixing up cars.

Love comics, computers, movies, books, and Sex.

My shoulder itches.

[Budster64]

My name is David.
I'm originally from Bronx, NY. But I haven't lived there since I was 17. I have 2 full blood brothers ( both younger, I'm 37)and 1 half sister and 10 half brothers. My dad was a real busy guy.
I spent 4 years in the US Coast Guard stationed in an Airbase support center in E. City N.C. From there I moved to Fla. where my mom and brothers lived. Mom works for Motorola as an exec assistant for the IT dept's VPs so they transfered her to Boynton Beach Fla. I met my wife back in 86 and was married for about 14 years when I decided enough was enough.
I have a degree in Electronics but I really hated that field. Earlier in life I had a college scholarship for art, which I took advantage of for about 1 semester before I decided to forget about it. don't think I haven't kicked myself in the *** over that decision, what a waste. in any case, I spent 8 years of my life as a Service Manager for a business machine company before I came to my senses and accepted the fact that I HATED the business machine industry.
So I decided to take my love for comps and graphics and combine them. I ended up taking a job as a graphics designer for a signage company, which really only gave me a modicum of artistic freedom but it was better than the business machine business anywho.
Almost 3 years ago I came out to Southern California for two reasons.
1) I had met my current girlfriend online and she lived out here.
2) I had some good friends out here and they talked me into it.
One of those friends asked me if I could help her with an ISO 9000 cert project they were working on at her comapny. Seeing as I was just recently arrived in CA with no job yet ( I was here a week) I decided an income was an income and I could look for another job while working. that was supposed to last 6 to 8 weeks. Well, it lasted close to 4 months and the very same day they said " thanks for all your help and hardwork it will be sad to let you go" about an hour after that, they asked me to stay on and help them with their Oracle implementation for a few more months. To make a long story short I stayed on they finally made me permanent, almost a year later they decided to move the company 130 miles north and offered me a permanent position and a relocation bonus if I accepted. So I did, and that's how I ended up in Santa Barbara.
My boss is the friend that asked if I could help with the ISO thing, and she has been very happy with my performance. since then I got a promotion to IT Systems Manager with the relevant increase in salary, and although I am NOT making what I should be making I am still happy with it.
All this is a very flowery view of what my life has been like, believe me I have had the worst of times and the best of them.
I've experimented with just about everything but aside from the occasional toke I decided years ago that the price I pay for my entertainment cannot be above anything else. I have to be the one in control, I cannot have anything in control of me.
I've also been a biker since I was sixteen, I've hung out with bike clubs of all types ( Angel's...etc.)but I never joined any cause I didn't want to spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder, I though riding a bike in FLA traffic was enough of a risk for anyone.
I'm also a musician, been playing guitar and bass for years, but I have barely touched an Ax for 2 years so it would take a while to get my chops back. But I miss it terribly.

[stotan]

Here's the stuff from me. My name is Alex and I live in northern Minnesota Where I work at a small computer store in a small town of about 12,000. I was born in New Hope MN, moved to Isle (a village on the SE corner of Mille Lacs Lake (also in MN) and moved up to Grand Rapids in the fifth grade. My father is a recovering alcoholic and my mother is a pack rat (figuratively speaking :P). I can't drink because of my heritage on both sides of my family. I am going to college to get a broadcast communications degree...I AM the next Howard Stern!!! I volunteer at a local radio station www.kaxe.org where I do a show called after dark about twice a month from 10 till 1 in the morning.

I've been interested in computers for a long time, as long as I can remember...just like music. My senior year in high school I was able to be a guinea pig (spelling?) and take an aries A+ course, out of ten students three passed and I'm the only one to get a job out of the deal.

There's way too much about me to put it all into one entry post, so I guess that you'll have to check out my diary at www.opendiary.com search by author stotan to find me.

[Kymera]

Here's some info on me . . . My name is Michelle, very un-original. I was born in Barbados, and my family moved to New Jersey when I was six or seven. Let's see, I'm the oldest, then my brother and finally my sister. My Dad's an *******, but I'm very close to the rest of my family. Interesting stuff, I went to Cornell University and I have a BS in Microbiology and Genetics. I have been messing with computers since I was 9. I sat the MCATs, but didn't really prepare and cancelled my score right after I finished. . .didn't really want to be a doctor. I managed to get a job programming some network monitoring tool, in SmallTalk of all things, which I quit after like 3 months. I floated for a while doing some Personal Assistant stuff for some producer in NY, then I just decided to go with the computer tech stuff, more in a planning role than hands-on. It didn't work that way. I started on help desk, impressed the right people who then moved me to the Network Operation Center as a network admin. After some really bad sexual harassment situations, I was crying almost every night, I quit and joined my current company as a systems admin (I hate that title too). Managed to stand out from the crowd and my current boss asked me to manage a couple projects for him, and now I basically manage most of his section's infrastructure.
Soap Opera Stuff . . . my parents are divorced, and my Dad married my Ob/Gyn. Yeeeach!! I also have a half-brother I've never met.

Cobra - Sorry about your sister. I can't imagine how I would feel if something similar happened to my sister. My heart really went out to you.

New stuff - Since everyone is being so honest and open I guess I can admit this : I think I'm in love, for real with this guy I've been dating for a couple months. I haven't had the best luck with guys, I've fallen for about every trick in the book, but this one is different. He's truthful and sweet and attentive and confident. Being around him, makes me so happy. I look forward to coming home so he can come over and we can chill out. I'm not saying those words until he does, but I want to burst and tell him everyday. I know my secret is safe, because he doesn't know about my Windrivers addiction yet, and he doesn't come here because I checked his browser history. I feel better telling someone though, because even my sister doesn't know this secret.

[CJK]

Hello, my name is Chris and I'm 22 and live in Los Angeles. My parents separated when I was 2 because my dad would beat and cheat on my mother. I lived with my mother and would go visit my dad and get my weekend beatings...tied up outside ect... Well life went on and so did I. I stopped talking to my father around 10...actually I was talking to him and he walked away while I was still talking. My mother raised me well since she was the only one doing it with no help from anyone else. Then in the last year of high school my mother marries a hot blooded puertorican. Everyone should know what happens next. They had a lot of stress on their marrage so they took it out on me. I would get in trouble for the dumbest things, since I HAD to work afterschool I would get home around 11 - 11:30 at night and then start my homework. Well my parents didn't want me up that late so I would get constantly grounded for doing homework and mind you I had AP classes so I was studying alot. My step dad would pick fights with me for no reason and then call me weak because I didn't want to fight back. The day after graduation I move out and I had to carry everything to my new apartment by hand at 12 midnight since my parents wanted me out that day and since I had to work that was the only time I could do it and no one else would help. Years go by and life gets better, I get into computers and start to actually have fun in life. My reall father about a year ago decides to contact me because he is dieing. But before he did that my step mother wrote me a letter saying that everything was my fault and the reason why I was unhappy and all the problems I had and he had when I was younger was my fault and I should be ashamed (I don't like her too much). It was his death bed wish to see me again(He had melanoma in the head). In december of last year I drive up over 1000 miles to go see him since he doesn't have too much time left. When I was there he took off with his friends and left me and my sister sitting in his house. He then proceeds to tell us that he cares for us so much and he thinks about us every day, what a buch of crap. I go home and being nice as I am write him a few times but never writes back, then in January he goes and dies which just adds to whatever I'm feeling inside which one day its going to explode and I don't know whats going to happen. Now I have a wonderful girlfriend who is perfect in everyway and life is getting happy again. Thats just a little peak into my life, hope it wasn't too tedious to read.

[NeuromancerIV]

simple name: Michael
age: 25

Originally from Pennsylvania, now in sunny Florida. I have a brother and 2 sisters. The brother I don't really know at all and one of the sisters was more my Mom to me than my mother, the other sister was the youngest till I was born and hates me to this day for that. My father, well he was a Penecoastal Christian Minister who I never agreed with, and sadly never really got to know,haven't seen him in many years. I grew up always looking for something to occupy my time and overactive mind, but I couldn't decide wether or not I like restoring and mod'ing antique cars or playing with computers better when I was younger. By the time I hitting high school I guess you could say I was a geek jock! **started for the football team and was part of the computer club!** LOL I got interested in older women (age 20 and up) even before high school. It was just physical with them because the girls my age fell in love to easily or got pregnant too fast.(yes that is a generalisation) I fell in love for the first time with a lifelong female friend, we dated off and on for some time. One night she committed suicide, which was later attributed to her ED and her and her parents inability to deal with her ED that kinna shattered my world, I had a nervous breakdown soon afterwards, spent a week in the loony-ward and got snapped back to reality. But life from them on, never looked as bright, I worked in a lot of fields over the next several years, from graphic design, custom software and DB design, running a small side computer business, airbrush artist for auto graphics, running the IT department of a document conversion corp., to working as a bartender at the beach an now as a sales-person/tech.
Somehow during this time I finished a general AA and a BA, BS and several certs and focused on Iaido budo. I was not a very nice person during all this, bouncing from one relationship being a bastard in general till I met another wonderful woman, and we went our separate ways after 2 years, I couldn't deal with her ED any longer, I guess I pick all the winners! I continue to this day, brief relationships. Recently I watched my grandmother slowly die of a long term degenerative disease that first stole her health then her mind and memories.
I have learned to follow the threads of fate, now I just go where ever the river takes me. I have many aqcuaintences but few close freinds, as I'm not a very trusting soul but those I call friend I'd gladly shed my blood for.I can't honestly say I have any long range plans for my life, I just can't see myself in doing any one thing in 10 years. The only goal I have is to live my life on my own terms and not to dwell on the past. And maybe one day, when I stop running from it, I'll realise how lucky I really am.
**damn I think I just vented...*** <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

[Blue Falcon]

My name is Inigo Montoya.
I used to live with my father(the finest swordmaker in the world) in Spain, until he was kill by a six-fingered man.

I then spent my youth preparing for the day I would meet the six-fingered man in a dual to the death.

Luckily, I won. Now I sit around and get drunk with my giant friend. Occasionally, you can catch us in a rhyming game. It is a good life.

[ShadowKing]

Name: Matt Lowe (Don't Stalk Me)
Place of Birth: Olympia, WA
Present Residence: Redmond, WA
Age: 26
Status: Married, 4 Kids (B8B6G4B2)

JvaGuy, you have an awesome name, and I joined 4 members before you... <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

Where do we start? I come from the Beaver Cleaver family. My parents are shining examples of community citizens both inside and outside of the home. They raised the strong-willed, my-way-or-the-highway me in a loving, understanding way. I have an extended family that all get along. In fact, my mom's whole side of the family (7 bro/sis) go camping every year for a whole week AND THEY ALL GET ALONG! We have Christmas/Easter all together with these huge gatherings. What can I say? Its a warped family, but I like em.

I grew up in Rochester, WA until I was 6, then our house burned to the ground. Our friends were house-sitting for us while we were on vacation. We came back, and no house. They are still our friends.

I grew up, joined the Navy, Hated it, Met my wife, Married her (+2), Had two more kids, Moved back to WA.

Here I went to College, Got a CS degree, and got a job as a Network Admin at a small Mfg Co. Got an offer that would double my pay, and took it. There I got my MCSE, and learned even more.

I have a Hunger for learning.

I was then offered a job at the Evil Empire up here in Redmond for twice what I was making there. I LOVE it here, I get paid to learn about Computers. My JOB is to be the technical resource for a team of writers.

At home, I am a good father and husband and love my family. My wife and I are both very strong willed, so when we disagree it ends up being pretty big. We always work it out though.

Here's the soapbox:
I am a strong Christian from a (you guessed it) strong Christian family. However, I believe in Christianity the way that Jesus taught it, and not the way it has been commercialized today. I do not believe in judging people, or looking down my nose at anyone. I believe that it is my job to LOVE people (real love, not that fakey I'm being nice to you because I have to junk), and understand them.

I know you know at least one person who is a REAL Christian, who has Integrity. That is the person I want to be. A man of substance.

I usually don't do so well, that is my goal anyway.

If you have read this far, then I give you kudos, I really like the community here at Windrivers, and have been here for a long time. Haven't had much time to post until this job, though.

[SNAFU]

Info on SNAFU:

My name is Shaun, and I'm 22. Born and raised in Carson City. Graduated from an acting conservatory in Cali and starting being an actor. Parents went through one hell of a divorce. I moved back to NV thinking I could help things (I'm dumb). Been here ever since, and because my Dad is a programmer and general 'puter wizard, I've picked many things up through out my life. Tranfered to UNR to continue my double major in CIS/Theatre Performance.
Not going to finish it there (the school and NV sucks more then I'm used too...).
I've been dancing my entire life, love playing with computers, and the outdoors (love biking, hiking, and camping). I go off and do any shows and commercials I get called for from my talent agents.

Since we're talking about this kind of stuff:

I'm now single (the B!tch). Not becuase I'm bad with girls, it's becuase I'm bad with relationships. Haven't found one that has hooked me. Not many people can keep up with my energy and becuase I'm constantly on the move (gone to do shows (most I do are in San Fran...that's why I'm moving there in a couple months), out clubbing, and general partying), the current girl in my relationship never trusts me (THOUGH I FRIGGIN" PUT EVERYTING INTO THE BLOODY THING AND COMPLETE LOYALTY, SHE ENDS UP KILLIN" ME IN THE END). I just don't get it. I'm tired of it, and I'm done with relationships till I find someone worth it.

[Pogi]

Originally posted by ShadowKing:
<STRONG>I believe in Christianity the way that Jesus taught it, and not the way it has been commercialized today. I do not believe in judging people, or looking down my nose at anyone. I believe that it is my job to LOVE people (real love, not that fakey I'm being nice to you because I have to junk), and understand them.</STRONG>

I feel the same way.

[Matt_29]

Originally posted by Pogivan:
<STRONG>

I feel the same way.</STRONG>

me to .. i make food that you pray after you eat ... (cause its so bad you prey that it doesnt kill you)

[Tazdrummer]

Ok, here is my little story...
My name is Keith and I am 31. I have always had an interest in computers and video games since the Atari 2600 and the Atari 65XE was my first computer. My dad was an a$$hole (like a few posts I have noticed) and my mom was always there for me. When I was younger, I always wanted to grow up and be the best dad possible (and I think I am doing a pretty good job with my step son). I have played the drums since 5th grade. When I was younger that was one thing I knew I could do good, play the drums.

After high school I joined the Air Force for 4 years. While in the AF I lived in South Dakota for three and a half years (talk about a DIFFERANT kind of state than Ohio and Michigan).

After I got out of the Air Force I was trying to figure out what was next. I decided to get a degree in electronics at ITT. I graduated and got a job in Michigan. I also made the biggest mistake of my life by being with the wrong woman, five years of my life wasted. But all that lead me to meet my wife through AOL in November 1999. I decided in August 1999 to go about a change of career. I got out of electronics and have been trying to get into the IT field. I had been building and fixing computers for three years and loved it. Why not make a career out of a hobby? I met my wife November 1999 through AOL, met face to face Dec 17, 1999 and proposed December 31st, 1999. I wanted to start off the new century on a solid, happy foot. We married on Valentines Day this year and me, my wife and my step son Tyler are all one big happy family now.