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The year was 1996.  I had just graduated high school and had no job.  If not for the extreme insanity generated by my association with MIdgley and Mentor, my time was taken by coffee and cheesecake.

I had earned a partial scholarship to college, and it seemed like a smart idea for me to do “something with computers.”  I had taken my first BASIC A class my senior year, and not only was it a breeze, but it was one of the only refreshing things about high school.

This “something with computers” landed me in a CSA 110 class.  Beginninig HTML.

And that was the true beginning of the end.  In one form or another, since 1996 I have been writing HTML from scratch using nothing more than whatever text editor I have had on hand.  Sometimes that meant coding through PINE while at the UofA waiting for Beanie Boy to get out of class.

Although it was pretty much my biggest hobby, the “word on the street” said programming was going to all end up in India, and I shouldn’t waste any more of my time programming or anything similar.  I stopped pursuing my degree in programming, and switched to systems admin.  There was a lot of passion in my fingertips everytime I switched a jumper to IRQ 5, 7, or 12 on a new printer card.  Yes… those were the days of super geekdom.  These were also the days of scripting like a madman for my one & only BitchX.

BitchX was the basis of all that was great about the shitty connections and idiots online back in the late 90’s.  Scripting my own nukes and hacks to take over Dalnet was a given on slow days.  This point didn’t last too long since I found booze, drugs, and women.  BitchX and iRC went away as I realized that the only women that seemed to exist in my life, couldn’t do a thing for me online.

I quit college but didn’t drop out.  Just sorta stopped attending.  I would get all the way to the campus, stand outside the classroom door, but couldn’t bring myself to actually go in.  So I would go to the mall and screw off the rest of the day.  Eventually I quit doing anything on a computer and quietly tucked away the stack of floppies and boxes of ISA cards I had collected.

Eventually I found myself hacking the computer point-of-sale system at my overnight job, and it felt like being reuinted with a long lost friend.  I still didn’t jump head first back into techie-land, but I made my way back.  In 2000 I started slowly going back to school, both taking a class in C++ and one in networking.  I also started working at a dataentry job, and was soon noticed by the IT director as knowingg “something about computers.”  Pretty soon I was running a small office of 17 computers as best as I could.

After scripting myself out of a job I was soon given a job as a tech for the whole company of 500+ users, 50 servers, and an endless supply of Dell deskktops with burstinig capacitors.

7 years later I wake up late in the afternoon and find myself working for IBM as an Exchange Administrator for 10,000+ users and managing a large enterprise environment whose data center is in Sydny, Australia.  After 7 months I quit that and am now working as an Exchange Administrator for one of the top Universites in the World.  RIght on.

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