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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

I ramble on about literature, music, and faith. Stringed instruments regularly get abused by me, especially my guitars and my mandolin. Oh, and I also play the flute. Sort of. I'm totally into tribal/ethnic sounds, and singer/songwriters from various places on the planet. I'm "mature" (read: over 30), single, and became hooked on online when I was in university and got a free Internet account that was offered to all full-time students. It was good. I was addicted to e-mail. Now I develop websites where blank spaces once existed.