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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.

Nickname came about as I was thinking about a personalized auto license plate and came up with X4ster even though I was never a Forester, only a forestry technician. My career was in fire and emergency services. I've done some disaster work both inside and outside the US. I've taken the oath of office several times and feel that I've lived up to the oath and my commitments. As an Atheist I don't have any problem with anything in the oath except the last word. I'm firmly convinced that ethical behavior, morality, Charity and compassion are not the exclusive properties of any one religion or belief system.