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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhimsyTheFae" data-source="post: 2550713" data-attributes="member: 8964">My StoryWell, where do I start?  Ah yes, the beginning...It was a hot summer day in 1972 (well, I can only assume it was hot as it was July and I was not yet born) in Monroe, Wisconsin when I came kicking and screaming into the world.  My parents named me Gabriel (it was the halo, wings and trumpet that I was born with) and took me home to Brodhead (a small town about thirty minutes south of Madison).The years went by without many memorable events (I had mono when I was two...I ran into a house trying to flee the police when I was eighteen).  I am the oldest of five boys.  When I was twenty my dad had a heart attack and passed away (two days before my brother graduated from high school).  During my second stint at technical college, I met my current (and only) wife.  We started dating on April 19th of 2003 (the day of the Waco disaster) and were married on April 19th, 2005 (the day of the Oklahoma bombing).  I graduated with an Associate's Degree in Computer Programming in 1996 after my third stint with technical college.I am currently a computer programmer for The Swiss Colony (a catalog company best known for cheese and chocolates) and have returned to college to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in Management (hopefully to be followed by a Master's Degree).  I have three daughters aged 15, 11 and 7 (the fifteen year old is my wife's biological daughter, although I adopted her years ago - she is also two weeks older than my youngest brother...they are in the same grade in the same high school) and a dog.  I live in my home town of Brodhead, Wisconsin.Through the years I have been a grocery store stockboy, a Pizza Hut employee, a college computer lab assistant, Telemarketer, a factory line worker, an order corrections seasonal employee, a Kirby Vacuum Cleaner salesman, a system administrator, a contract programmer and my current position.  I was a freak injury away from being a kickboxer (when I was sparring once, I had a rib kicked free from my spine and after it healed I decided that I would be a responsible family man and change career aspirations).I have been playing D&D since 1990.I enjoy reading fantasy fiction, listening to hard rock, playing basketball, watching football, playing fantasy-football and of course RPGs...That's me in a nut shell.</blockquote>

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