An introduction
Hi TAA!
I wanted to give you a brief introduction since I feel I'm going to be popping in more often and leaving comments, potentially posting my own topics.
Firstly, my bulletin board handle. It's a name I came up with for one of my characters when I played Everquest. Feel free to ask questions about it, but the handle is not a representation of me. It's just an anonymous name I use over the internet because my full name is easy to track back to me (seriously, one search in any search engine for my name will pull up only me). But, i'll be happy to give my first name, Raymond. And no, not everybody loves me (i mean how can they, I'm white...tsk tsk). The moderators are free to look me up using my profile name. Just don't give out my last name if you don't mind. :-) Maybe I'll put a picture in my avatar at some point. However, I don't own a gun, don't have any camping pictures, and would look like a fool compared to a lot of what I call "roughnecks" on here (that's not derogatory...i'm actually jealous).
A little about my background. Born and raised in central texas, around the austin area. I'm german/polish (dad's side) and british/irish (mom's side). I can trace my dad's roots back to the early 1800's. Not so lucky with my mom. My dad's family are do-it-yourself farmers. They weren't the brightest bunch from my understanding but they could live off the land (something i envy). They rotated crops of cotton and corn, and had a hay field as well to use around the farm and feed a milk cow or two. My great gandfather founded a chapter of a social organization for Germans called the Hermann and Sons near his farm. I also regret not ever knowing them (dead before I was born) or ever having a chance to get into his and his family's life. Out of all honesty, and i'm not sure what caused it, but somewhere between him and my dad, there was a whole lot of disfunction. I'm not blaming anyone, just calling it as it is. Due to this disfunction, my dad's side of the family is pretty scattered. My mom's side of the family were businessman and landowners in the austin area. My aunt tells me stories but she's a hippy who smokes a bunch of pot so I never put faith in a lot of what she says (probably not worth discussing here anyway).
I myself, 2nd youngest child of 5, moved to Austin immediately after high school to get away from "small town life" in search for more opportunity. Worked in austin most of my professional life. I'm currently a database programmer but had to work my way up to one as I didn't have a degree until recently. I've lived in several other places as well. Married a woman in the Air Force and had the opportunity to live in Germany. Our marriage went to crap very early on (i mean what can you do about a woman who lies about the very things you married her for?). No kids thank god. 9/11 happened 9 months into our marriage and that put too much stress on her (at least i like to tell myself that's what happened) to work out our problems. So moved from there to Dallas, then to Columbia, MO. Then to Kansas City, KS. Then to Las Vegas, NV. Then to Austin, back to Las Vegas, stopped in San Antonio for a little while (which is when i started reading anomalies.net), on to Baton Rouge (just in time for Katrina and Rita no less!) and now back in Houston, TX. I have no military experience myself (a regret i have), but my dad was in the navy as a navigator of the USS Huntington and my brother was a marine who guarded "stuff" on Guam.
I drew an interest in survival reading through the anomalies Survival forums and saw that rick had left for another site. which, brings me here. i seemed to jive with most of what rick said and found that certain things he said had a lot of importance in american's lives. i honestly have either been surrounded by racist minorities, elitist liberals, racist rednecks, or plain "i don't give a sh!t about anything" pseudo-socialist athiests. it's rare to meet people that i feel i completely connect with so that's what brings me here. at one point, i connected with some guy here in texas who sent me a survival information kit on CD but that was just as i moved to Baton Rouge so I lost track of that focus. Now that I'm starting to settle into a more stable financial status, I thought it would be a good time to start "preparing" although my gut tells me it's possible I'm a little late to the party.
Well, i think that about does it. I'm very honest and very open so feel free to ask questions. I may not be the best spoken person in the world, but i do have a few braincells left that seem to light up a spark or two.
Oh, btw, you're going to find that I have the curiosity of a kid and like to ask a lot of questions. Hopefully I will find that some of you are patient enough to deal with that. :-)
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