My auto-biography 1.0

I was born in 1984. I was in Redeemer Lutheran Church (ELCA) in the early 1990s. The first pastor was welcoming. The woman pastor wasn’t as welcoming. David and I used to come over. David and I used to go to circuses, Science Museum of Minnesota, play NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, Dreamcast and a little bit of Gamecube. At David’s house in Somerset, we used to hear Ozzfest and a train whistle. Ozzfest was playing nu metal like Slipknot, Korn, Ozzy Osbourne, System of the Down in the 1990s. I noticed at David’s room was messy so I cleaned it up. He had NES games like Star Tropics, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Bros. 3, Spyhunter, Contra, and Mega Man II. He had Genesis games like Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Sonic and knuckles, and the Simpsons. He had Super Mario World and Super Mario Kart. I used to meet him at Thanksgiving and Christmases. He got the cool toys. I was stuck with no videogames like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures until 1997 when I got a N64. I had a PC since 1993. It was MS-DOS and I played Simcity 2000, Hoyles Casino, King’s Quest III. I got a Windows 95 pc in 1995. I made my first website with Netscape Composer and upload it to pressenter.com with FTP Voyager. I was surfing IGN.com, Gamespy.com, Gamespot.com and Gamefaqs.com in the 1990s. I had 20 Disney VHS tapes of animated cartoons. I made a Geocities (geocities.com/nightwalkers101) website with Namo Webeditor 5. I biked to Willow River State Park and around the trails in my childhood, about 13 miles away from Roberts, Wisconsin to Hudson Wisconsin and back.

At Calvin Academy in Roseville and Moundsview. I was happy to be there. I met city kids. I was happy about the one on one education. I had Cs and Ds grades in the St. Croix Central public school. I was at gym. I got many As and Bs at this school. It did have a clinic. I was into country music in grade school. I had speech therapy in grade school. I was happy go lucky. I was in cub scouts. I was afraid of the polls on the recess equipment. One time I returned there with my cousin, David, to use radio controlled cars. David had nitro gas RC car. One time I was with some basketball players and a swarm of wasps was there. I got measles there. I have a regret of only having a disposable camera with me at field trips. St Croix Central elementary had field trips to Minnesota Zoo, Como Zoo, Science Museum of Minnesota, Mall of America. There was a social studies class in SCC elementary. I used to play with LEGOs and build airplanes. I used to have pillow fort downstairs with the tv on Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network, Disney Channel watching Hanna Barbara, Looney Tunes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Duck Tales, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers, Tail Spin, Batman The Animated Series, X-Men Animated Series.

I was in Cub scouts and Boy Scouts. I went to all the ranks up to Life Scout. This was right before boy Scouts were into Jürgen Habermas and invited girls. I went to Tomahawk every year. Sometimes I went to Avanti Camp. It was a nice group of kids. I stayed friends with Randy Peterson and Robert Haggerty for a while. Robert Haggerty moved to Minnesota in 2008. Randy Peterson was in his house until 2008. Then he moved to New Richmond in 2008. My Redeemer Lutheran confirmation (ELCA) had a woman reverend Marilyn, who wasn’t so welcoming. My parents did dinners there. I was there for 8 years. The church has a Jürgen Habermas Critical Theory book. I got to go to Disney World (Epcot, Magic Kingdom) in 1997. The Great Movie Ride. and Caribbean cruise by Royal Caribbean. I went to Cayman Island, Florida Keys, Cozumel, Mexico, and Dunn River Falls, Jamaica. I went on a Submarine on Cayman Island.

I was at Renaissance Academy in River Falls in 2001-2003. This was because Calvin Academy was costly. I met this friend Chuck Peskar. I had a Red Hat Linux 7.2 and Command Prompt class at Chippewa Valley Technical Center in 2003. I had to walk to the Pizza Hut (defunct 2019) and Subway. In the late 2000s I used to go to Bos and Mine and Juniors in River Falls for bar hopping. That time I made it home from Juniors almost totally drunk. When I met Chuck Peskar in 2019, he said he lived in Minneapolis mixed up with the local mafia when it was a sanctuary city of minorities.

I worked with the Holiday Gas Station in Roberts. I had a high school classmate Heidi Green. Circuit City from Woodbury in 2006-2007. I worked both floor CSR and warehouse. PC network Services in 2007-2008. I did oscommence on Centos 5.0 in 2007.

In 2004, I took a network administration associate degree with WITC New Richmond that I didn’t complete. I was using Knoppix in the Linux+ class. I took the CCNA test at the Cisco Academy class. I had English class, an algebra class, a Visual Basic class, and industrial networking class. I didn’t complete the associate degree. My GPA was 2.5.

At Rasmussen College Lake Elmo, I couldn’t take pictures or video. I was there from 2007 to 2015. I took Network Administration, Network Security, Health information technology (coding) and Project Management MIS Bachelors. I met Brian Sager there who later became a Facebook friend. There is only two pictures of me at college, one with class and one with the dean.

I went to Pierce County Fair a lot. I looked at the pictures, farm animals, photography awards, amusement rides for 30 years. I used to go with my cousin David Hartmon and my mom. I was around David 8 times a year.

At Pulatech in Hudson Wisconsin. I was with a job coach during my internship. I was normally into Ubuntu Server 14.04 creating administrator passwords. Gregory just gave me a little tough love when I put a printer in the wrong spot.

At Baldwin Area Medical Center, I found on indeed.com for an internship. I passed the interview. worked with Windows 7, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Cisco Catalyst switches. I changed Virtual LANs in Cisco IOS thru telnet, putty, and terminal. The Management information systems manager needed extra help with a skeleton information technology staff. The new hospital networks went down because of the under budget. They needed to redo it entirely and I wasn’t hired for a permanent full time position. The network configuration was wrong. The hospital was called Western Wisconsin Health too.

At Laptop Chips, I worked for 1 year 7 months. I made friends, but they weren’t able to get me another job. They just worked there, because they couldn’t find any other job. Employees listened to death metal, heavy metal, nu metal over the speaker from Pandora, Spotify. Dave K. did not want a lot of music. Dave Keefer listened to Pink Floyd a lot and had the Animals album for usernames at Laptop Chips. Aaron and Eric had an Associate Degree with Network+. Aaron also had Security+. The management has been to Century College for 1-2 years. The 18-19 year old employees were into old school rap music. It was in the middle of the retail apocalypse and it was a Best Buy warehouse. Best Buy Richfield finally ran out of contracts for me to do before I was laid off. Some employees got to go to Northern Invasion in Somerset, Wisconsin. That last year that they held Northern Invasion due to illegal drugs and brawls. Aaron was listening to Tool, Slipknot, Metallica, Three Days Grace, System of the Down. Aaron was like Robert Haggerty in 2001.