Introduction

[Raven Orlock]

Hello everyone.  I wish I had joined before now.

 

My name is Raven Orlock and I have been a Goth for several years now. I am a 45 year old local government professional near Lansing with a great wife and two teen kids. I look forward to meeting you all.

[NocteSpiritus]

Greetings and may I officially Welcome you to DGN!

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Feel free to ignore anything you feel uncomfortable sharing, don't have the energy for or have covered already. We are just friendly, if a bit nosey. And we ask these same questions fairly often as you may have noticed.  

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[NocteSpiritus]

Welcome, welcome. 

[torn asunder]

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Hiya,

 

I'll refrain from replying in any detail until i know you are actually alive.  (We get so many people that post an introduction and then that's it poof they are gone) 

 

 

Hope you stick around. 

[Troy Spiral (13)]

7 hours ago, NocteSpiritus said:

Welcome, welcome. 

Thanks for posting that list of the welcome questions.   

[TronRP]

Greetings and Welcome to our Edge of the Universe...I mean...Corner of the Internet.

[NocteSpiritus]

50 minutes ago, Troy Spiral said:

Thanks for posting that list of the welcome questions.   

No problem. Figured I'd beat Tron at posting them for once. 😁 I can make that picture the one I use when posting the welcome questions.

Edited March 21, 2019 by NocteSpiritus

[Raven Orlock]

Thanks for the warm welcome. Here is some information about me.

 

I'm Raven Orlock. My wife called me Raven one night, so I claimed that and added "Orlock" to honor Nosferatu. I live and work near East Lansing. I was originally born and raised near Flint, but I bounced around a few years. I lived in Kentucky from 2008 to 2014, which I call my Michigan Exile. I am pretty educated and have a Masters of Science in Geography from Eastern Michigan University. I have two teens, a son from my previous marriage and a step-daughter from my current one. 

 

I own property in northern Michigan and I love the woods and all activities out there. I also play Xbox sometimes and work on some woodworking and/or home decor projects. 

 

 

[Troy Spiral (13)]

10 hours ago, Raven Orlock said:

Thanks for the warm welcome. Here is some information about me.

 

I'm Raven Orlock. My wife called me Raven one night, so I claimed that and added "Orlock" to honor Nosferatu. I live and work near East Lansing. I was originally born and raised near Flint, but I bounced around a few years. I lived in Kentucky from 2008 to 2014, which I call my Michigan Exile. I am pretty educated and have a Masters of Science in Geography from Eastern Michigan University. I have two teens, a son from my previous marriage and a step-daughter from my current one. 

 

I own property in northern Michigan and I love the woods and all activities out there. I also play Xbox sometimes and work on some woodworking and/or home decor projects. 

 

 

 

Hi Again,

 

Cool nickname.   From the time I saw "the golden mean" drawn out in that spiral shape, then was for a time fascinated with weather and the various spirals that exist there I just decided I "liked spirals"  when we had a school play I just left my first name the same and changed the last name to spiral.  It's remained the same through my short lived fine art career, DJing on 89.3FM , and several other things.  

Interesting degree.  (I'm a huge fan of virtually all sciences.  I self-describe as an "academic nerd")  Have you been able to turn that into a job?   Just curious.    I have an associates in graphic design and a bachelors in Science (IT/MIS focus)  Which I totally did not need, have never had an employer in the IT field ask me about a degree.  Just at one point when I was wanting to move up the management ladder they basically required me to finish ANY degree, so i finished the IT focus degree I didn't need.   I LIKE college if i could be a full time student (which I guess I am but not formally) that would be great. 

"Michigan Exile"  haha =D

Where is your property ?  Just curious.  

 

I used to be big into the outdoors.  Way too far up in the U.P. west of Marquette our family has long had a very roughing-it cabin (no electricity  and you hand pump the well water nearest hospital is an hour away).  But have not done any nature stuff really in years.   

 

My experience with lansing is limited but we have people on this board from europe so that isn't remotely an issue. heh.    I have "youtube friends" from lansing (I make youtube videos and this couple make videos to, all the time it takes can be pretty isolating due to all the time it takes and the technical aspects that no one but YouTubers would care about but can be very important (and often emotional) which has caused "content creators" to form an informal social network).  From watching their videos I feel like I've been all around that area like 20 times.  Hah. 

DIY stuff is something I have a lot of respect for.  Despite the widespread availability of info on how to make things we have now, working with one's hands seems to be on a massive decline.  What kinda stuff do you prefer to do?  

Xbox hehe.   This board is literally if I could rename it Id call it "All Nerds".    I'm not sure there is anyone that wouldn't be some variation of a nerd.  I'm a huge gamer but I've in very recent times been trying hard to cut down on my video gaming. 

 

I'm still open to it just with all the stuff I want to get done,  (the biggest two being improving my health and in whatever small degree I can, improving the world even if it's just my tiny corner of it)  video games are just (for me) something I have a hard time doing in moderation and thus turn into a massive time waste.   If i could get a solid group of REAL LIFE friends playing the same video or board games that would be awesome but I'm done being the gaming "leader".  lol   Been having to teach other people to play various games for 30+ years, so tired of it.   Having said that I am dying to play the game of thrones card game.  (Also an embarrassingly huge GoT fan). 

 

Omg /end novel

 

 

 

 

[kat (1)]

Hello! Welcome to the board. 

Edited March 24, 2019 by kat

[sekhmet2002]

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