An Incomplete Autobiography

Looking through the few months worth of posts here, it occurs to me that I haven't done a lot with one of the first categories I set up - the "An Incomplete Autobiography" one. I'm going to try and start to use it a little more - it's the place where I'm going to put the various little stories about how I got to be who (and where) I am today. It should surprise nobody who knows me to discover that a lot of these stories are going to involve me looking dumb, and almost all are going to be a bit on the strange side.

In part, that's because the strange stories are really the only ones worth presenting. In larger part, it's because my life really has been a little strange.

Oh, and one last thing - all the stories in this category are presented without any warranties as to absolute truth or complete accuracy.

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