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Regular readers of my blog will want to know who I am, and this is the place to tell them.

My info

Date of Birth: 4/21/1969
Place of Birth: East Patchogue, New York, USA
Father: Wade A. Davidson, Jr. (b. 8/7/1945; d. 11/8/2001)
Mother: Sarah Ellen Harris (b. 4/7/1945)
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5'11"
Weight: about 260.
Gender: Male
Languages Spoken: English and a little Spanish
Brief History:

1969: Born on Long Island, New York
1974: Sister Patricia Anne Davidson is born (2/6)
ca. 1976: Parents divorce
ca. 1980: Mother takes Patty, my grandmother, my uncle and myself to Leon Valley, just a few miles outside of San Antonio, Texas.
ca. 1981: I am baptized at Northwest Hills Baptist Church.
1985: In the summer, I attend the Pre-Freshman Engineering Program at the University of Texas in San Antonio.
1986: Graduate from Temple Baptist Christian School in San Antonio. Later that year, I would join the US Army as a Unit Supply Specialist.
1987: Assigned to HHC, 326th Engineer Battalion, 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Also, later in that year, I am involved in my first roleplaying campaign. I am a wizard in an AD&D game. Priests (then known as "Clerics") would later become my favorite character class. At some point during this year, I discover that AD&D is not the only RPG out there. I first discover a game called Villains and Vigilantes, a roleplaying game where you can play a super-hero. Not being really satisfied with the game system (I began to really despise randomly generated characters, because I inevitably rolled up a sucky character every single time), I began a search for something better. Something better did eventually come along—Champions. I quickly convert.
ca. 1988:
I am a founding member of the Gamemaster's Guild, a local roleplaying enthusiast club in Clarksville, TN.  We play-test several games (including GURPS Horror, and GURPS Pulp).  The group is short-lived: shortly after I leave in 1989, the group seems to simply fall apart after a year or two.
1989: After failing the US Army's Physical Training requirements for the seventh time in a row, I am discharged from the US Army. What took them so long is anybody’s guess. Shortly after being discharged, I move (with my father’s help, I might add) back up to New York. I would later find out that I have (at least) a cardiary arrhythmia that may have contributed to my inability to run 2 miles.
1990: NBTY, INC. (called Nature’s Bounty, Inc. at the time) hires me.
ca.1990: I become involved in a local Champions group. Through this group, I meet some of the best friends I've ever had: Jim and Mike.
1992: After moving in and out of several places here on Long Island, I move into a friend's house in Selden. It's cheap, but I slowly get the feeling that something isn't right.
1993: I buy a car (1992 Geo Metro). This is the beginning of what would be the hardest year of my life so far. The reasons for buying the car is because I was in love with a woman who was dating a guy (I believe) solely because he had a nice car. It turns out that the guy was a dealer, and he was arrested and jailed (from what I hear). My fears about the house turn out to be true: the bank forecloses on my friend's house, meaning I have to quickly find another place to live. I won't have the chance to find one--a fire would accelerate the moving process. I spend the next four to five months living in my car. If it weren't for my friends Jim and Mike, I wouldn't have been able to afford the security deposit on a room in Patchogue. I live there for the next seven years.
1997: My department (Mail Order Shipping) gets a much-needed overhaul. Picking orders by hand is not fast enough and too labor intensive for us to continue doing it: Puritan’s Pride has just grown too big. SI Handling Services is called in for the automation process. I become involved with this automation process by making helpful suggestions to the programmers. Soon, I'm one of very few people who have any kind of understanding of how the system works—even amongst programmers at SI Handling.
2001: On November 8th, my father passes away from complications due to cancer.

2002: On August 3rd, I am promoted to Inventory Control Assistant Supervisor. Yayy!! :)

About this blog

I started this blog to get back into writing, a skill that I have unfortunately allowed to diminish in the last several years.
 
The reasons for this are legion, but the primary one was that I acknowledged that while I might be able to write, I felt that I really didn't have anything interesting to say.
 
Now that I'm 35 (as of when I write this), I feel that I have enough life experience under my belt to have something to say.  Now I just have to figure out what the heck that is.  :)
 
I have chosen this venue of "blogging" because it is (frankly) the cheapest and easiest way to get my ideas out there about life, love, and other words beginning with "L."  :)  But also, movies, roleplaying games, video/computer games, music, religion/philosophy and other things that I'm passionate about.
 
What's so great about this is that you can pick and choose what you want to read--almost like a stream of consciousness, you read what strikes your fancy.
 
If you have any questions about anything I have written here (such as "What the hell does 'perpetuity' mean?" (see my home page)), don't hesitate to contact me.  I promise not to come to your house wielding a heavy, blunt implement.  :)

You're just jealous because the voices aren't talking to you.