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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 wandered far away from MeFi with the rise of Twitter and Facebook and other things. All we ever wanted was to come in from the cold. Have a community. I realize now my community was always MeFi, even though it's sort of not the hot thing. It was never the hot thing and that's OK. Still a good spot to land to see what other people are thinking.

In the...20 years or so I've been around here, I had a kid. Then I bought a house. Then I got married. Then I rescued some animals. 3 dogs, 3 cats and 2 goldfish from the carnival.

Life is odd.