The world changed… FOREVAR.

A look back over my 24 years, filled with bullet items from things I can actually remember happening. I think. Maybe.

March 20th 1984
The awkward social experiment begins

I was born at 4:24AM, and little did I know, one of my future best friends was in the same ward that I was, just a few baby-holders over. Several other future friends had been born a few days earlier, and were scattered all over the East coast. In Los Angeles, my future wife had figured out how to run amok around the house and was a few months away from birthday #3.

July 13th 1987
My sister Tara is born. I decide that I wanted a brother. This comes into play later.

1989, my first memory
The earliest I can remember back is my mom walking me down to the school bus to start either Kindergarten or 1st Grade. Take your pick

Fall 1989
After having the classic “I see London, I see France, I see Adam’s underpants” pulled on me by a classmate. I proceed to pantsy her in front of the entire class, losing my recess time for a week. I didn’t tell my mom about that until I was 20 years old.

Sometime during 1989 I get my nose busted for the first time by Aaron. I pay him back years later by convincing him that playing with broken glass is the cool thing to do.

Spring 1990
My first literary masterpiece, about saving Gadget from Chip N Dale’s Rescue Rangers, is published by Take a Kid to Dinner. Despite the fact that I wrote a full short story at the age of 6, I have to get my teacher to cut up my steak at the dinner because I haven’t learned how to operate a butter knife yet.

Early Game Consoles
Up to this point, I had an Atari, Gameboy and a NES, with the useless gamepad that was only good for Track And Field. The nerd had started to show.

1992
In 1992, something amazing happens. The SNES. My love affair with video games kicks into high gear, and will continue from then on. ( 16 year veteran over here! )

Also in 1992, something horrible happens. My Grandma Kinder passes away after a heartattack. If I could reference only one life changing event, this would be the one. It happened at an old enough age to scar a bit, but young enough to not fully understand.

1994
They close down my beloved grade school, Manila Elementary. I then get shipped over to Ramage Elementary, where I come to hate my classmates and teachers asides from a very select few. ( Don’t worry, Ive grown to like some of you by now ). This is where my understanding of math starts to fall apart. Thanks Mrs. Harless

In Los Angeles, the North Ridge earthquake busts up my future wife’s home. On the East Coast, they run 24/7 coverage of the same piece of the 405 being knocked down by the earthquake, but nothing else.

1995
I am introduced to the internet via a 66Mhz Packard Bell running Windows 3.11. This is the beginning of the end.

Spring 1996
My sister ( whom I have started calling Thomas ) and I have built hundreds of Lego cities and structures by this point. We also run fake companies complete with tax records, invoicing, dividends, etc. By this point I can balance a checkbook, invoice a shipper with the correct FiFo procedures, and calculate corporate taxes for West Virginia. I still can’t do long division.

Summer 1996
I fall in love with Dominique Moceanu while watching the Summer Olympics, and decided that I would go to Australia in 2000 for the Summer games to meet her. Yeah, that never happened.

I also started watching the V saga. After a few strange dreams, I wrote a 15 page short story about myself, a couple of friends, and the 1996 US Gymnastics team escaping Atlanta after it’s taken over by aliens. Sadly, I don’t think I have a copy of this story anywhere, but it did involve me jumping over a bomb and driving a Camaro.

1997
‘97 was all about the Sony Playstation and Final Fantasy VII. I had never played an RPG before, or if I did, I didn’t know what the hell it was.

FF7 still remains my favorite game of all time.

1999
Calvin and I start down the C++/CGI/Perl/PHP programming route. My first project, PSGamers-Online, officially is started.

2000
The joy of turning 16 and acquiring a driver’s license.

2001
The joy of smacking your car into a mountain, and hitting a deer. It was the only deer I have ever killed.

2002
The joy of turning 18 and college. I also started working on WeHaveIssues.net this year, after dropping PSGO.

2004
My future wife ditches the glamour of Los Angeles and flys to Erie, PA to live with her dad for a while. We meet up that winter after I purposefully left my jacket in the car so I could start a conversation with her.

2005
I leave college, and thankfully Erie, and move to Virginia after getting on board as a developer for Invision Power Services. Christy and I start dating on April 15th ( tax day! ), and she moves down to live with me in Virginia.

2006
After a year of IPS, I’m ready to leave and start my own business. E29 is born, while at the same time, WHI is officially laid to rest.

Spring 2007
After one of the worst winters of my life, I get a call from a company called Cairo ( now Citizant ), a federal contractor needing a Java developer. I jump at the chance and move, in one friggin day, to Manassas.

Completing my road to yuppie, I buy my first BMW and instantly become a fanatic.

Summer 2007
Christy and I get married. If I were to pick the happiest day in my life thus far, this would be it

2008 onward ho!
We move, again, to a condo in Leesburg.

Here is to the next 24 years, hopefully I won’t move as much as I have in the past seven