embrace my inner geek

So I found out I love the outdoors, you name it – hiking, kayaking, camping, rock climbing, and spelunking (doesn’t that one sound fascinating).

I joined a local hiking group on meetup.com and we hit it off. Fortunately, for the entire group, several of the organizers had tremendous knowledge of local hikes (as well as a few not-so-well known treks) and put together a series of incredible events that continue to grow in scenic beauty and also number of members joining us on each outing.

It’s really a blast, more people should check it out:
http://hiking.meetup.com/161/

I am a die hard LOTR fan, I have discoverd a new love for computer games, and also any video games (Kingdom Hearts ;D) I look awesome in thick black rimed glasses, I aspire to own a vespa, I spend way too much time thinking up cute tricks and outfits I can put my puppy in, I LOVE board games…. I am a geek and I love it, I am still trying to find myself and complete my geekdom, but I love who I am and all my quarks! Geeks Rule!!!!!

Well, if we are going for confessions today..guess what? IM A GEEK

A Star Trek watching, bimbo hating, computer hugging Geek, and I love it.

Who else could still find Papa Smurf cool

It took me a while to find my inner geek. I’m not into computers or science fiction or even fantasy that much. But 2 years ago I joined the RMIT role playing club and now I’m completely converted. I’ll never go back. I actually met a whole bunch of people that get me, and its greet! I role play at least 2 times a week and have also started LARPing!. I love it!

I’ve spent the day writing Visual C++ code and talking about mathematics. In my spare moments I’ve been writing messages on internet forums and reading Wikipedia.

Tonight I’ll probably watch BattleStar Galactica.

Tomorrow I’ll probably do the same in the day, watch the SciFi miniseries last episode The Lost Room and spend the night until 5am on internet, Mensa puzzles, chess with my figurine chess pieces, and other similarly geeky things.

On Saturday I’m going to buy a new PC (Whhhaaaa!) and set up Linux on it.

Being a geek – there’s no other life like it.

Even before I knew what a geek was I liked being all the things which make up a geek.

I discovered what being a geek was all about when I did the inner geek test (google it – it’s brilliant). Apparently I’m a ‘Super Geek’ (inner geek result 48.7%). Answering those questions really told me what being a geek was all about. It’s about being all those things that I love being.

I’m a computer geek. I love computers and I’d rather stay up until 6am on Saturday night on the Internet than go out – absolutely, no contest. Computing beats partying anyday, anytime, with anyone. And I’d rather be on my own to do it.

I’m a SciFi geek. I love science fiction. There is nothing like it in the world. It keeps me sane, keeps me together. Whatever else is happening in my life I can wrap myself up with SciFi. I can always rely on that. It is one of the foundations of my life.

I’m a puzzles Geek. I love any sort of puzzle and I’d much rather sit on my own for 9 hours solid through the weekend nights doing them than go out socialising. I get so absorbed in puzzles that my body seems to go into a sleep-like state although my mind is hyper-active, working on the puzzles, so much so that I get cold as though I’ve just woken up. And I put off peeing until I’m desperate, and I carry on puzzling until I’m so tired I can barely see the page anymore because my eyes won’t stay open.

I’m a geek during the day too. My work is geekish (software development) though working to other people’s rules and doing the boring repetitive bits spoils it a bit.

I’m a geek in lots of other things too. Being a geek is GREAT. I LOVE it. I always loved it. It’s who I am.

My friend are geeks.. they made me embrace my own inner geek.. i’ve always been a geek… computer geek and video games geek.. I have a full time life besides that. I go out .. get drunk, dance.. go to my accouting classes.. That’s totally ungeek.. but still I can’t wait for Final fantasy to come out in 29 days. My notebook caught a virus from the faculty network last week.. had it not wirking for 20 hours.. I THOUGHT I WOULD DIE.. could’nt do anything.. agenda’s on it.. work’s on it.. school work’s on it.. my life is generated by it!!

I remember 4 years ago I was recreationaly using a hodgepodge of drugs and substances that wreaked havoc on the lives of me, my family, and friends.

When the Lord found me, I was trippin’ in a parking lot with my good buddy at the time who no doubt was as lost as me—not good.

Little by little I came to and starting seeking Him, rather than that good deal on whatever it was that I could get at that time from that guy (whoever he was) in that place I was so fond of ending up.

It occured to me that I was missing out, that somehow in all my “fun” I’d missed the path a person takes to living a fulfilling life—and as a badass-live-life-to-the-fullest guy that I was, that really saddened me.

I really thank God for sparking my soul to WAKE UP and listen to people much more in tune than myself (not too difficult when you’re not strung out).

When I started working again, I met the guy who is now my best friend, Mr. Mike, who invited me to accept the Lord in my life (huh, I’d had a great argument with the Big Guy, but I hadn’t thought of accepting Him in my life for some reason)—Mike did a courageous thing, he approached a lost person with the Truth and let me have it.. after that, the weight of my actions left me and I felt this man as a brother in my life.

I don’t know if it was the lightness of that moment or the residual effect of the drugs, but I couldn’t help but share the Lord with my mom (whe was raised in a Catholic school [shudder]). I’m not sure she knew what to think at the time, maybe a mixture of joy, and perhaps that I was trying to manipulate her. But whatever it was, she didn’t expect that testimony to come out of my mouth.

My Mom although trained in rote memory of scripture and religion, never shared her relationship with the Lord until after we talked that day.

We actually enjoy sharing a great message or something that happened to us where we credit the Lord as having a hand in it and without cringing. Because it’s not taboo—it’s the truth!

Yesterday I entered the realm of true geekdom… I bought a second monitor…

Now I have a dual-monitor system. It looks very much like this :)

I ams what I ams an tha’s all that I ams. I like Star Wars. I like sc-fi in general. I think the inner workings of a computer are cool play toys. I’ve read Cosmos by Carl Sagan and started reading Stephen Hawkings before the book was destroyed by water damage. I play chess…poorly. Worse yet, I play computer chess where the pieces look like Star Wars characters.

I am geek, hear me roar.