Never saw this thread. Oh well here goes.
My name is Bill, I'm 28, and I live in the greater New Orleans, LA area. I started UO in 99, played Atlantic and Siege Perilous till about 6 months before AoS. My first endevour into rp was in Shadowclan orcs on SP. The concept of a cohesive unit that allowed you to basically spend your UO life with no bank, no house, no real possessions, and yet still kill people left and right appealed to me
I started freeshards in 05 on rebirth. It went down, and I played Divinity sparsely since then. An old friend from ATL set me up on hybrid this fall. I quickly amassed pretty much every character I wanted and all the phat lewt I could use and became bored, so I looked you guys up. This has been the most UO fun I've had in a long time.
I used to work in IT as a network admin. Around 2001 I decided to take a crappy job at a crappy call center so I could be closer to my father who was dieing of COPD. He died in 2003, so then I began to get my life back together by studying to get some of my certs back.
Then 2005 came along. I lost pretty much everything I owned in hurricane katrina (and no I'm not black, don't loot stores, and dont bring massive crime to cities I evacuated to). Now I'm currently doing construction for an uncle of mine and living with my mom (sad I know
). I should have my CCNA and MSCE certs back within 6 months, at which time I plan to get back into the IT field, and go on to finish my bachelors degree in comp sci.
Edit: Oddly enough, I live about 100 miles from Baal'Zamon right above me.