The beginning

Who am I?

I'm a 26 year old guy who lives in South Bend, Indiana. I graduated from Michigan State University in May of 2000 with a degree in Computer Science. I work as a systems consultant for one of the top 10 consulting companies.

I'm a husband. I met my wife 10 years ago, at engineering camp of all places. We were friends for a while, lost touch, met up again a few years later, dated, and married in August of 2001. We have a house in South Bend and two cats.

I'm a video gamer. Most of my evenings involve killing large numbers of digitally rendered creatures or people. I'll be the first to admit that I'm addicted. I blame my dad. He was/still is a geek too, he had to get all of the latest toys. The first thing that I remember is using his Atari computer at age 4 or 5. It had some of the standards, like Donkey Kong and Qbert. I'd sneak down to the basement early in the mornings to fire it up and play. It was all down hill from there. My brother and I pooled out meager resources bought a Nintendo within a year or so of it coming out. I currently own a Super Nintendo, a Nintendo 64, a Playstation 2, an XBox, a classic GameBoy (actually my mother's), a GameBoy Color, and a GameBoy Advance SP.

So speaking of my family. My parents live in Shanghai, China. My dad works for one of the largest US manufacturing companies, and has moved a lot. I have a younger sister who is a High School math and science teacher, as well as the head competitive cheerleading coach. I have a younger brother who is a credit analyst at a bank.

That's about the summary of me. From here on out, it'll be standard blogging. I'll probably talk about World of Warcraft, the only game I play right now. I'll talk about the softball team I'm on. I'll talk about training for the 5k race coming up in June. It could be fun. It could suck. We'll have to see. :-)