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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thresher" data-source="post: 1036882" data-attributes="member: 9983">Lots of interesting people here, Im probably not one of them... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Well, Im 31, unmarried, never married, no kids and like it like that just fine. I work too hard in a job that probably dosnt pay enough for the the stress it gives me and have managed to snag 2 weeks leave as I havent had a holiday in 3 years.Basically I was told to take leave or they'd hide my swipe card so I couldnt get in the door, as a result Im sitting here in front of the computer, contemplating hitting my bank manager up tommorrow for a few bucks to make a new one for something to do for the next 12 days.So, I grew up in the country a fair way out of town and learned all sorts of useless things like shooting holes in feral animals, inanimate objects and making explosives in the back shed. Technically I should have been dead about 2-3 times by the age of 18, had skin cancer once and the doctors told me not to go out in the sun too much, as a result I have the much healthier job of staying inside. (Hah!)Moved out of home at 17, went to the big city, worked in lots of different jobs, car spraypainter, picture framer, graphic designer, house builder, public servent, interior decorator, unemployed a lot, computer tech and somehow Ive ended up in a relatively stable area of the IT industry. So, Im an administrator for the Vodafone WAN across Australia and a fair few other wireless WAN's for universities, AAPT and a fair few other companies... added to my plate recently is looking after the Westpac banking computers as 2nd level support/fault manager for about 260 field technicians and subcontractors across the country.Needless to say.I hate my mobile phoneI dont get paid enoughI think Im getting an ulcerWhen not being driven crazy by everyone elses problems I try to visit some friends, play some D&D and a whole heap of other games, usually this means a 280km round trip every weekend to get there but I dont mind. Mostly because it means the 'love of my life' gets to be cut loose on the freeway, Ive always loved fast cars and the last one I got I imported over from Japan directly and does 0-100km/h in about 5.8seconds and sounds like an angry peel of thunder.Apart from that I used to consider myself something of an artist, I went to uni and did a BA in visual arts and havent picked up a paintbrush in about 6 years, anything I do is usually on a PC these days. There I was living the rock n roll lifestyle of a uni student, poor as beans and spent all my beno on things like cheap port, cigarettes, paint, paper and roleplaying books. It was a good time <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Im a bloody awful writer, though once I did manage to churn out a 180,000word supplement which was for a roleplaying game that Wotc used to support but dumped because Ha$bro are <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />s. It got published on a freeware cd, which is probably still floating around out there on the net and gaming circles. Most people liked it... sort of <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />For a surprisingly 'gothic lookin' type of guy I have a lot of love for life and the mysteries I someday hope we'll uncover about the universe and ourselves in my lifetime. Until then Im just looking for a way to be idle and rich, rather than overworked and poor which is about as ambitous as I get.</blockquote>

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