Well, I live alone in the big city! Wait..that's not as good as it seems! Although my house can stay clean now, food stays in my cabinets, and it's quiet...it gets boring. But hopefully this blog will accept me as a friend :)
A little about me:
I've always been a nerd that loves outdoors. I love video games, board games, role playing games, and on the other side of the spectrum I love sports, camping, and riding my old motorcycle (when it starts).
In 2012 my mom moved to a town about 45min. from my house. I think that's the perfect distance because we can see each other often, but not too often! Well, she said she felt bad cause she didn't help pay for my schooling, even though I never asked her to. But, she ended up buying me a 1979 Harley Davidson Sportster (XLCH for you ironheads). My uncle taught me how to ride it, and got one for himself, a 1978 Sportster. That thing is AWESOME. I've ridden bicycles my entire life, but this was just a whole new thrill. The hot summer air in your face, weaving through traffic, so awesome. My friends have always said I pick up on things way too quickly, so learning to ride took about a weekend and I was good to go. I do have to say that I've never been really good at anything, but you can bet your ass I'll learn how to do it quickly.
Well, the gas tank had a leak in September, and it's been in the garage ever sense. I put on a new tank, and am still trying to get it started (been in the 30's so too cold to try hard). But let's back up to last fall after the bike broke down. My roomate and best friend for almost 20 years got a job out of town, in Oklahoma. He stopped paying the electric bill, so when I tried to move in October, I had to pay $1,000 to get it enabled. Luckily I got friends who will help me out :) And I'm almost done paying back that friend for helping me take care of our other friend's problem. I had that roomate for about 4 - 4.5 years, and have always had a roomate since 18, and by the way, I'm 26 now.
It was a humbling experience to have no electricity for a month and a half. Cold showers were probably the worst, especially when the house temperature was in the high 40's (46 was coldest I saw on the thermometer). But, it taught me to be appreciative of everything I took for granted. I didn't really complain, because I wasn't in a deathly situation, and it wouldn't ruin my life. I just looked at it for what it was...I was homeless, shacking up in my own home :).
I'm now in my own apartment, and the living arrangement is so much better! But, as I eluded to at the start...it's boring as hell. Luckily I'm a gamer, so I play games online with my best friends every day, but I'll get more into that aspect of my life in future posts.
In this blog I hope to dive into my personal life, to show any non-gamer, that gaming is actually a way of life. And you bet your ass it's fun! As well as taking you into my gaming life, and the different types of gaming, I'll be going into more detail about my open road biker lifestyle, and how it's all shaped who I am as a person. My goal is to present my side of the story, on behalf of all the dorks out there that get made fun of. I'm a very sociable guy, and you can't always identify a dork by looks alone (although most of the time I play the part :D).
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