….a bunch of irrelevant stuff happened.

Then, I was born, 26 years ago last Saturday.

Not much happened for a while, at least not much that wasn’t purged with my underage record. The only real interesting points would be that sometime during high school I got it into my head that I was great with computers.

More specifically, despite showing talents in many other areas (including art, design, science and pretending to work while playing quake) I chose Computer Science as the future path I was going take.

I was also a Scout. This contributes to me being able to start fires in almost any situation, as well as being good with ropes…. a skill that can be useful in ways that I could never conceive of while in scouts ;-)

It also allowed me to be exposed to the “rock music”. The key event in this was the Australian Jamboree I went on (the 18th in Springfield, Queensland) where my group spent 10 days listening to Metallica….. we may have participated in some of the interesting events, like beta testing the new vending machines by hacking them for free cans and “observing” the Girl Scouts.

After this I purchased my first heavy metal album, ReLoad.

As for my religious views, I was what I’d call a apatheist. I didn’t really care about it, hadn’t been raised in anything specific, and hadn’t really thought about it.

The other possibly relevant fact, I was fat, and always had been.

These various and sundry facts give you a kind of primer of where I was at when I started uni, which is where the plot thickens (while I do the opposite).