Jericho

Jericho

Co-Creator of IrateWeirdos.com

   A reader requested bios of the Irate Team - I dedicate my bio to our lovely readers, without whom we would just be bitching at the ether!
   I was born on November 6th, 1971 in St. Louis, Missouri. My mother and Father divorced not long after that - niether has admited that I was the cause of that divorce, but you never know! Either way, my mother and I were left as a two person family. She worked a bunch and I learned to be pretty independant early on.
   I attended two different catholic institutions of learning. Needless to say I haven't willingly stepped foot into a church since I left high school. I thought at several points during that ordeal about joining the religious life - being a priest or a monk. They keep putting it in your face, and I wouldn't have lost anything. At the time I figured I'd be celebate forever. Somehow my luck held and I managed to not join a religious order of any type, the military or even a sports team. I was an AV geek and proud of it. Besides, catholic girls like flashing video cameras for some reason - I was in heaven!
   Max and I met sometime during my sophomore year. He managed to become my second best friend! Later, as we plotted and re-plotted how to take over the world, we would become great friends.
   College came along, with it came the revelations that I was a pervert, I was poor and I was easily depressed. Along the way I managed to keep touch with Max, get my first job in computers, flunk out of school and meet my future wife, Steph, over the internet. That was an odd couple of years!
   After flunking out, I went back to St. Louis, still talking to Steph over the internet. Max got sick of hearing me whine and pine. Since he was the only one of us working, he hooked me up with a bus ticket and I was off to Maine to live with my honey for the rest of my life. I was back in STL three months later after not finding a job and putting her into eternal financial hardship. We hadn't broken up in the classic sense. I still loved her, she hated my guts!
   I spent the next couple of years trying to get something of a life together. This was not easy, the job market in STL was unforgiving and I was stupid more than once, walking out on perfectly good paychecks that just happen to have been connected to crappy jobs. The last nine months I lived in STL I was unemployed and desperate. Again, friends came to my aid and hooked me up with a bus ticket to Seattle, where another friend swore she would hook me up with a job.
   Darn near six years later, here I sit. I managed to have a string of ever improving jobs and along the line I re-courted my lady from Maine. I got her to leave family and all she knew for the rain and evergreens of the Northwest. I managed to talk myself into asking her to marry me against my better judgement. Not that there was anything wrong with marrying Steph - just marriage in general made my feet itch. But, being with Steph is worth it.
   These days I work on a voicemail system for a large law firm. I want to write more and I want to turn this site into something more than it is. Here's to our future!