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Well.

I was born at a very young age. That was in 1975.
I live in San Jose, CA (about an hour south of San Francisco). I'm married (9 years this coming June) and we have three kids - 17, 17 and 19 (his and hers but no ours).

I do IT for a big North American defense contractor. I like it and they pay me to show up. Score.
We have two dogs, both mutts. They like me better than most people. I guess I like them about the same.

In my spare time I like photography, riding my bike, and most forms of activity/incidental exercise.

We started the server many years ago. It was run by a group of us who all knew each other from work. We ran it off a T1 for 6 or 7 years, upgraded to a DS3 and then eventually we broke it off into a service provider. Since then, only a few of us are left - Carnivore-CG and me, and Keith-CG keeps promising he's going to make a comeback someday. We've added new people along the way. We had a brief stint into BF2 and dropped that pretty quickly. Now we have the BF3 endeavor.

With the introduction of the forums, we've developed a community I am [usually] proud to be part of. ;) I'm glad we have this place to have the contact we have, even if it's not face to face.

I have to say, the history of the server is far more interesting than I am.
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Did someone get drunk on their 21st birthday and forget to wrap it :lol: ... 9 months later a little tadpole arrives.
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No, my daughter was born when I was 19.

NS learned what a vagina was when he turned 18 and it evidently took him three more years to work up the courage to touch one :o
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LMMFAO :lol: :lol: .... guilty

And I just realized my math was off :oops: :( ... Maybe they need to up my meds :?
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LMFAO

Swanny-CG wrote:

NS learned what a vagina was when he turned 18 and it evidently took him three more years to work up the courage to touch one :o
Your right Swanny, then his mom said go out and find one for yourself :lol: :lol:
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^^^ How many of us knew that was coming .... I know I did.
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:D I got your back ;)
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Swanny-CG wrote:
With the introduction of the forums, we've developed a community I am [usually] proud to be part of. ;) I'm glad we have this place to have the contact we have, even if it's not face to face.

I have to say, the history of the server is far more interesting than I am.
Amen to that brother........
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Ok swanny I have been asked this a few times and wondered myself (now that I know how the sever got started)

What does EA 117 stand for??
professional driver. closed course. do not attempt.

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And why is there a space between the EA and 117 ?
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When EA still had public servers, they were named EA 12, EA 36, etc. We jumped ahead and went high - why 117 got chosen, I don't know.

When BF2 came out we actually got a "cease and desist" order from EA, they said if we used that name they would boot us from the server browser lists. Like I said, BF2 didn't last long for us.
When we went BF3, I told Spec what happened before and suspected we would get something similar this time around, but they either don't know or don't care. Maybe they have a different naming convention now, I don't even know what they're calling their servers now.

Anyway, that's it.
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Swanny-CG wrote:
Since then, only a few of us are left - Carnivore-CG and me, and Keith-CG keeps promising he's going to make a comeback someday.
I've been back for a few weeks now. But after four years away I'm so bad that I'd prefer that no one noticed.
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Are you playing under Keith or Keith-CG. I have seen keith on the server but never got a response from that one as to if it was you or not. Anyways welcome back.
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I've been playing as Keith. It's good to be back.
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Keith wrote:I've been playing as Keith. It's good to be back.
Welcome back Keith.
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'the dogs like me more than most people - I guess I like them about the same' LMAO! :D

I remember those servers back in the day listed EA ## - wow, I'd forgot that! I remember there being a EA72 that I used to play on because it was the year I was born... lol That's crazy that I'd totally forgot those servers and never put it together with EA 117... jeesh
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