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My name is Rob, and this is my blog. For you to understand my perspective, you need to know a few things about me. I'll give you a few facts about me to introduce myself better.

My parents were indulgent, if not particularly wealthy. We were white middle-class Americans living, for much of my youth, in the relative wilds of rural Michigan. My father worked hard and long in a factory making dairy products, while my mother stayed home to raise my younger brother and myself. My father taught me to have a strong work ethic: being reliable and doing what is expected of you to earn your pay is important, no matter if it is not the most pleasant job. This is how I endure a job as a retail drone, providing for my own wife and son.. It's also a part of how I appreciate my gifts that allow me to work and earn a living; every day is a gift, every inconvenience and pain a payment against having the luxury of health and belonging to a society in which I have more freedom than possibly any other time in history.

My parents were not particularly religious. My father was a Lutheran in name only, while my mother was a non-practicing Catholic. When I was ten, however, they decided that I should be brought up with some religion in my life, and decided that I should start attending Catholic religious education. I had a lot of catching up to do, but I ground it out, finally leaving the public school I had gone to in favor of a seminary in the sophomore year of school (Year ten). The seminary was a liberal-arts school that covered a Catholic background for any students who wished to move on into the priesthood. Prior to entering this school, I had discovered what would become a love in my life - role-playing games, especially pencil-and-paper tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons. Unfortunately, my enthusiasm for the games didn't serve me well in a climate where those games were demonized. Once I had confessed, in confidence, that I played and organized these kinds of games, I was told at years' end that I would not be able to continue there. There was more to it than that, but it was a big part of it. I did meet my best friend at the seminary, however, and we have stayed friends ever since.

The final event I will relate to you is the path my family life took when I left my father's home to go to college. My parents divorced when I was thirteen, an event which shook my entire world, as one might well imagine. I had always been awkward and uncomfortable with girls through high school, but I determined to reinvent myself for college. I moved three hours' drive from my parents to go to college in a neighboring state, which made me learn independence and responsibility for myself. I tried to get into various clubs, make more friends, and threw myself into gaming. At the on-campus job I had the summer after my freshman year, I met the woman who would eventually be my wife. She was my first girlfriend, and we dated for seven and a half years. I had to be certain that we would be able to make it work, remembering how my life was turned upside-down when my parents split up. We got married in the spring of 2001, and have done pretty well since. I know most people have a broken relationship in their past, a former boyfriend or spouse, but with care and commitment through temptation and difficulties, we've pulled through. I'm not bragging, but I am proud that we ave endured as we have.. With the luxury of stability in my home, I have the time to be philosophical and creative and the support of a wonderful family. I am truly blessed, and I hope I never take that for granted.

So now you know a few of the things that have formed me into who I am, I hope I have piqued your interest enough to read this blog to discover what floats across my mind when I get behind my keyboard. Until my next post, this is Omnusi, Thanks for reading!