And so it begins; The first post.

Well here it is. My very own blog. Don't know why I never made one of these before, but I figured it was about time to get started.

First let me introduce myself. My name is David L. Kenney. I'm 21 years old born on March 11th 1986 at 2:06 pm on a rainy Tuesday afternoon. My childhood was uneventful for the most part with no particularly large deviations from the norm.

When I was six I was first introduced to video games. They quickly became a large part of my life and my main source of entertainment.
Over the years I spent untold hours in front of a television set twiddling away on some mystical journey to save some princess I never really cared about from the horrors of imprisonment by fire breathing turtles. Truth be told I watched my father bring down King Koopa in Super Mario Bros. years before I managed to do the same to Bowser in Super Mario World on the SNES. It was a proud moment for me, and I left the game on the "The End" screen for a few days to make sure everybody in my household saw that I had freed not only the princess, but a menagerie of multicolored Yoshi eggs from the evil clutches of the Koopa Kids and their evil mastermind father in his hideous clown faced glider. Suffice to say I eventually did turn it off, when my Mother informed me that leaving the game on so long would probably start a house fire, and since my Mom works all night and sleeps all day, she would most likely burn up in the blaze I unwittingly started.

Over the years I played more and more widely differing adventures until it led me to the love of my life on GameFAQs.com (of all places). Honestly it sounds strange to even me. But GameFAQs was really only the catalyst. She got ahold of my Instant Messanger address on a board dedicated to Harvest Moon: Magical Melody, a game that in hindsight was actually pretty terrible. But I'm still glad I bought it without reading up on it, or we never would have met. And what a great tragedy that would be.

Zoey, as her name would happen to be, is truly an astounding creature. Few people can claim to have found true love online and stuck with it. Come June 7th 2008, we will be celebrating our two year anniversary (pause for applause). As I said before, we met through an online gaming website that is for all accounts barely tolerated by the community at large because well... The community at large sucks. She had started a thread about listing our AIM addresses so that we could help each other out through the game. Nothing every came of it for a long while until at one point she sent me a message just to see my away message. Truly grateful I am, that she was unaware that she could just select "User Info" to see it. We started taliing, and over the course of the next few days I fell for her hard. When I learned she had similar feelings I pounced and took a chance asking her out. She said yes, obviously.

I learned a lot about her, most notably her Animal Rights activism. At the time I met her she had been Vegan for only a few months. As of this writing she is going on two years. That's a long time. Kinda. Anyway I realized that the only way I could stay with her was by becoming vegan myself, so I did. Or... tried. When I stay with her at her house. I have no problem being animal product free. But living with my parents, an unfortunate situation to begin with, it becomes much harder. Not because I don't want to be vegan, but because I need to make choices that make being Vegan nigh-impossible. So for the time being. I'm just Vegetarian. And even then, not strictly. When all I have in the entire house to eat is chicken noodle soup. All I can do is pour myself a bowl and pick out the meat chunks. Honestly I feel silly doing it. I'm still drinking chicken broth after all, but what choice do I have. At this point I feel like I should just do what I can for now, to survive, and make the full life choice when I move out and can do my own shopping.

I think that's enough for an introductory post. More to come later.