The Story So Far...

Once upon a time, a boy was born to a marine captain and his wife. It was their first child and though the whole thing was extremely dramatic for them, involving well, childbirth for one, and a jar of Texas soil, a helicopter ride, the near death of their new son, a not so mysterious birthmark, and a stay at a Ronald McDonald house with a free Nintendo set, it was completely unremarkable to the boy because he doesn't remember a bit of it.

So, the boy grew up like all boys do eventually, as Puff the Magic Dragon found out much to his disappointment, and this particular one, eventually did gain memories, and siblings, and bikes, and legos, and scars, and books, and pets, and many things besides. He went to school, making average grades, friends, enemies and dreams. Then he went to college, read some more made decent grades and then graduated and decided to set out and seek his fortune. Which brings us, with no real explanation, to the present time... not quite in medias res, but almost...