Whoo hoo! 10 years later, I can still read!!
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Well SC and I are still married. SC is a Senior Programmer/ Department Lead. Heās been moving up the ranks there for the last 5 years and now runs a department of 6 programmers. Demon_Spawn will be 11 a the end of January. DS is a very unique little guy but what do you expect when he has us for parentsā¦ Iām the most boring of the fam and Iām a snarky SAHM.
Itās nice to see so many familiar names!!
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For internet figments of my imagination you guys have awful creative back stories. Especially keeping the consistency going by aging children properly off screen and everything.
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Iām not dead either. Lol, thereās a certain poetic symmetry to me posting another āIām backā message in the thread I actually started. 
No big changes to report on my side - still at the same job, still married to the same guy, still living in the same place. Yup, Iām a boring old fart.
The one thing thatās changed a bit is that Iām doing more and more conventions and other things with the button business. For those that didnāt know, I sell 2.25 inch pinback buttons with pop culture and wise, witty and geeky sayings on them.
I have a core of about four cons Iām doing every year, and Iām adding more each year. @Guido, if you and Mrs. Guido are coming to ComicCon in Toronto this month, I have a booth there - PM me if you want details. Iām having a lot of fun with it, and itās really got me back into fandom in a lot of ways. Iāve also done a couple of contracts with a small publishing house and a martial arts studio for bulk custom orders, which has gone well. Itās not going to make me enough money that I can quit my job, but it does pay my way to attend these cons.
Writing-wise, everythingās pretty static too. Iāve written a couple of small things, have ideas for more, but Iām still having a problem putting butt in chair and actually writing on a consistent basis. I really need to work on that.
Anyway, glad to be back and looking forward to reconnecting and hanging around a bit more.
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Yes. Yes, you do. 
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Whoaā¦ this is all new and shinyā¦ Iām alive and well too!
Welcome back.
Thanks! For anyone who doesnāt remember me, I had the tag of āDrunken Installerā due to my aptitude for doing computer/mechanical work while inebriated. I have definitely slowed down on that. I have moved on from my Help Desk role at that Big Blue company and am now doing Data Warehouse support for that same company. Bought a house in '09, got married in 2010, had a little girl in 2013 (named her Gwen). And thatās where time has brought me! Glad to see a lot of names from the past still kicking around here.
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For clarityās sake: Installing, inebriation or both? 
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Posting in the Iām back thread, because you have to start again somewhere. Though it has been a long time, what did you all do to the place?
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We donāt talk aboutā¦ the incident.
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You let Ratty near the servers again, didnāt youā¦Ah well, good to see the (some) of the old gang keeping up traditionā¦
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It was late, we were drunk, there was a midget involvedā¦
Dude! You gave a mushroom to a midget and said āGrow Mario! Grow!ā
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This is the result of a whole lot of system administration while under the influence.
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But what about Microsoft Bob?
That was a bad acid trip.
Imagine how the consumers felt.
ā¦at least for the moment.
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