About
Hello there and welcome to the page that’s dedicated to me. My name is Jason Edwards and I am talented, smart and I am a practicing conspiracy theorist. This could be attributed in part to my father’s influence as well as I like to look at things, that have been offered as truth and fact, from different angles. I find that it is possible to see the real truth behind the candy-coating that people and the media tend to shroud things in. I like that at times it makes me look as if I am either psychic or nuts. That way, I keep people guessing so they never really know what I am thinking and therefore I won’t be too predictable. Does that make any sense? Anyway, all conspiracy theory rhetoric found on my site will be marked in red, so as to not be the source of confusion to what really is and what I think really is. Now, on with my story…..
Life began for me amidst great turmoil and a little back-story is required to give a perspective on my current situation.
My parents were newer Christians in 1971. Life was not at all easy for a young couple who had conceived and given birth to a son in 1968. The first-born male, John Todd, was everything that the couple could desire; healthy and active with blonde hair and blue eyes. However, a daughter was everything that the parents had wanted, yet Colleen was birthed and then lost within 24 hours. Only about a year later, the attempt was again made to have that baby girl. A son was to be had instead.
Their worst possible fears were realized when the doctor’s early prognosis of the premature child was identical to that which had taken the life of the daughter only a short time before. Lung Hypoplasia was a newer condition that had not been readily seen before and few doctors were prepared to treat it at the time. The condition is fatal if a doctor is unaware of how to deal with the underdeveloped lungs of the preemie, as was the case of Colleen.
Prepared with faith, prayer and a determination to keep the child at all costs, the parents were dedicated to getting a doctor that would not “let the chips fall where they may” as had been the previous doctor’s mode of thought and subsequent loss of their daughter. After only three days in an incubator, and long weary hours of monitoring by the medical staff and my parents, I was able to go home!
Life didn’t get any better though, as I grew up in the home of loving parents but an overly-jealous older brother. It was to be expected, as three years of being my parents’ center of attention had worked its wonders on my brother. I didn’t help any, not realizing that my parents always referred to me as “the miracle baby” and had showered me with more attention than my older brother. This is of course a common mistake with many parents. I excelled at being a pest, but all I ever wanted was to be friends with my brother.
The pre-teen years afforded me with more opportunities to learn who I was to be when I got older. I began a love for music and technology. I vividly remember when I was about 9, that I loved to bang on stuff. Much to the dismay of my mother and school teachers, I had an affection for rhythm. Of course, my mother tried desperately to steer me into a more subdued instrument like the piano, but I was having none of it! It didn’t help that I grew up in the Church (more appropriately my Father’s church) and there was a need for a drummer. Oh what a noise I made then! I had the benefit of a family friend that was going to college and was a drummer too. Wayne would for many years be the one person I longed to meet with during the school break, just to have him teach me some new technique on the drums. My love affair with the drums (and other percussion) continues to this day, but I also enjoy playing the bass guitar and I feel the need to venture into a new musical instrument - the pipes!
I also remember being about 10 when my father bent to the whims of his boys and bought us a Commodore64. I quickly became infatuated with the device and purchased two magazine subscriptions that contained BASIC programs that could be typed into RAM and then saved onto a cassette tape drive! Needless to say that many, many hours were consumed with the task of typing. This was due in large to the fact that I could easily make a handful of errors, or missed keystrokes, and have to research hundreds of lines of code until the corrections could be made. This, along with playing the drums, literally stole me away from reality for about 4 years. I then became engrossed with fantasy novels.
I fondly remember reading Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” after seeing the animated movie on TV. I had to read more , so I went and bought the entire Lord of The Rings trilogy. I even continued by reading the Silmarillion, but I had to have more. I then got into reading what books I could find, at the time, by other great fantasy authors like Terry Brooks and the tandem writing prowess of Tracy Hicks & Margaret Weiss in the Forgotten Realms series’.
I also remember that between being 16 and 17, life was rough. The family moved to California and then Oklahoma, all within a few months! My reality was that helping the family, by dropping out of school and going to work full-time, was what was most important at the time. Things were even more interesting because my little sister was getting into everything. Her walking and talking never ended, as she began to move more than just crawl and talk more than just baby-speak and bubbly spit-up noises! The one highlight of my life in Oklahoma was going to my first (and only actually) Star Trek convention. It was quite a trip, to say the least.
My late teens and early twenties were lost through the fog of reckless abandon, in the form of under-age drinking, smoking, run-ins with the law, drug use and sexual promiscuity. Peppered in all of that was friends and a stint as a drummer in a local punk-rock band. Luckily those times did not define me and there was an end to them. I found myself at the “end of my rope” as I had lost my jobs, been kicked out of technical school, lost my apartment and had just dropped an honest-to-God life-threatening relationship with a crazy woman!
This time of my life was in true upheaval, as I found myself enlisted in the US Navy, beginning a long-distance relationship with (unbeknownst to me at the time) my future wife and a reaffirmation of my faith in God. I had moved to south Texas, got married and began the journey into living the American Dream - Married With Children and Debt.
By 2000, I had been out of the Navy for 4 years, starting a new job as a retail business owner, having separated my shoulder, with a baby daughter in the mix! Only three years later would bring me a second daughter, closure of the retail business and starting a business venture with a friend in the entertainment room furniture business. After a few years of this, I had a realization that I loved web design and since I had been doing it as a side job for a few years, I got hired as a designer for a local ISP. I had also decided to go back to school, to finish a college degree that I had lost over a decade before. Being a family man, with a full-time job and commitments at my church, I delved into an Online college to get a bachelors in Programming. During this academic year, I became a published writer by submitting an alternative energy article for a scholarship program. My paper was not selected for the scholarship award, but my work was selected for publishing under the title, “Brown Gas for a Green Earth”. By the time I was to finish my degree, in 2006, I saw the benefit of continuing with a Masters in Project Management. This brings me to the here and now, graduated with degree in hand and a bright outlook on a promising future.
My EVE Online Alter Ego –
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| Name: | Dirk Garret |
| Race: | Caldari |
| Family: | Deteis |
| Gender: | Male |
| Corporation: | State Protectorate |
| Money: | 6,049,024.93 ISK |
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| Currently Training: | Frequency Modulation IV |
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| Total Skillpoints: | 12,897,568 |
| Skills known: | 123 |
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