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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Ah names, what's in a name? The interwebs? Why...I've been online since it was ARPANET...you kids today and your fancy graphical browsers. Why in my day, we had gopher and modems where we hung our phones and we LIKED it!

I'm a mom, a writer, a business owner, a soap maker, a baker, a philosopher, a metal sculptor, and secretly... a Mad Scientist. I even have my own Igor. If I were a candlestick maker, I'd be my own crazy little medieval village.