Hi, I’m Rob Merritt aka Baron Calamity. I’m 38 years old. I’ve been married for 15 years to my lovely wife. We have one child, our 76 years old son, 2 foster kids, and a new baby due in February 2008. Living with us are two cats and two dogs. I’ve lived in Maryland all my life and been working in the I.T. field for 13 years. I’ve been gaming for 34 years. I started on the original Odyssey 100 and I have the pictures to prove it.
I started gaming in 1974 when my parents bought me an original Odyssey game system. Since then I’ve owned virtually every game system released and a new computer about every 2 years.
My gaming history: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rcmerritt/gaminghistory/gaminghistoryintro.htm
My Steam id: http://steamcommunity.com/id/baroncalamity
I belong to a group of gamers that value sportsmanship. “Play to have fun and play honourably. “ Its called COFR. http://www.cofr.net/
I am disabled. As a baby it was discovered that I was born with a rare heart defect called Tetralogy of Fallot. Basically that means oxygen rich and oxygen poor blood mix within the heart, via holes between chambers and weak valves. During surgery to install shunts to get more blood to get oxygen from my lungs I had several stroke like cyanotic attacks. This caused significant damage to the left side of my brain. My right side mostly paralyzed and I was slightly delayed in walking, I was actually talking and reading early. I do have a lot of trouble putting words and sentences together and that’s probably because of the brain damage. please be understanding. Its not that I don’t care enough to proof read or intelligent enough to generate paragraphs of good grammar, its just that sometimes, my brain decides to start working differently. For example; I’ll see and think the sentence, “The phone rang and I answered it.” and I’ll write, “Two plane ran any A antsaw ot.”
This blog will cover my journey over the next year as I forsake boxed retail PC games for digital downloads.
