About me…
This is the hand that I will insert into your nethers and remove your ransom.
Basically I am male, mid 30s and I live in the South. For those not from the U.S., that means basically the Southeastern corner of the country not counting Florida. Note I said I live in the South, I am not from the South. Yes I am a Damn Yankee (Northerner that just won’t go back North).
Other than that, well I am a bit odd. My brain looks at things in a way that is different from most people. Now don’t look at me like that, I don’t have dementia or anything, my brain just follows odd chains of logic sometimes. There are very few people that I have met that can follow my mental process if I let my filters down which I rarely do.
The intent of this blog is to give me a place to put down some of the rather odd results of those chains of thought. You may disagree with my conclusions, in fact I expect that. In the end though, I hope to produce something amusing if not profound.
Now, a little background. I started school in a major metropolitan area, then in High School my parents hauled us to what I thought was the middle of nowhere. I finished High School there and I am probably better for it, if not smarter. My first year of College was at a big private school in a different major metropolitan area but I made the mistake of declaring a major in Engineering that I wasn’t ready for my first year. I was hoping to become a computer engineer but I didn’t have the Math and Physics background so the classes were harder than they should have been. The loss of the scholarships sent me back to my parents house and the state school that was in town. I changed majors to Computer Science as I had taken programming classes in High School (no it wasn’t as back woods as I originally thought) and in my first year of College. Unfortunately I was bored most of the time in the basic classes that weren’t teaching me anything new. So I got distracted, missed a test and had to drop out of the class. Then the next semester I missed a later test, it was too late to drop out so I failed.
Well, through that I decided to give my other love a try. I had taken art classes all through High School so I thought I would see what a College course was like. Well, it was basic, it was simple, and I loved it. So after a year trying Engineering, and a year trying Computer Science, I became an Art Major with an emphasis in Graphic Design.
Oh and my minor was in Psychology.
So out of College I was going to work for a big advertising agency, I mean I managed to intern at one that doesn’t normally take interns and also at the biggest film company in the state. Surely I could find something right?
Yeah that didn’t happen. I went to work for a major retail corporation doing packaging “design” which meant take the new box dimensions and this photograph and apply this pre-defined template. Well that was beyond boring.
My way out came with a small web-site design firm that decided to give me a chance since they could get me for a song. Well that went well for 3 years until they went under. Since then I have worked for the state, a non-profit, another small software company that wasn’t going to make it and a telephone company.
Currently, my job is reliable, mildly challenging, pays well and is easy for me to excel at so far. It will do for now.
Hobbies include Gaming (Computer, Console, and P&P), Western Martial Arts, Computers (hardware, software, programming etc.) and the Society for Creative Anachronism. I stay busy.
Now somewhere in all this I hope to blog. We shall see how this goes.