Hi everyone,
My name is Matthew, and I'm 17. I was born on November 19th, 1992. I am infact a scorpio. I was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. I've moved several times in my life and I currently reside in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I've been working since I was 14 and I am currently unemployed until after January. Once all the kids go back to school, jobs will start opening up and I can get back to work. I only have my grade 9 education because I have a disability and I don't like staying in a class room with a annoying teacher for six hours a day, 30 hours a week.
The reason my name is Blindy is because I was born three and a half months premature. Since I was born premature, I still had to further develop, so they had to put me in a incubator. While I was in the incubator, my retnas detached in both my left and right eye. I was completely blind at that point until the doctors decided to do laser eye surgery. I have scar tissue blocking my left eye completely and half of my right. My vision is getting worse as the years go by but since I got laser eye surgery 17 years ago, I am looking into seeing if there is anything the eye doctors can do. If they can do anything, I will let them do it on my left eye, since I have absolutely no vision, to see if it works. If it fails, I will not let them touch my right eye.
I almost died several times at birth due to being premature. I wasn't breathing right and I got really sick when they allowed me to go home. I had a very weak immune system when I was younger and now that I am older, it's has strengthened.
I have been gaming since I was little, I can't approximately remember the years. I played a lot of Duke Nukem (or however you spell it). I started playing STEAM based games back in 2005. I started playing Day Of Defeat 1.3 and Counter-Strike 1.6. Once Counter-Strike:Source came out, I quickly moved on from the non-source games. I played competitively for a while in CAL but I never made it that far.
As I explained above, I have bad vision and I have been supported by CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind). They provide me with anything I need to help me out in daily activities. Well, after talking with CNIB, I explained to them that I needed a new computer. They quickly agreed and they gave me $6200.00 to work with.
I contacted a computer store down in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada where I was currently residing with my father. I told them that I wanted a gaming computer. They quickly emailed me back with the computer specs and the process was currently under-way.
I got my computer in September of 2009. My computer specs are as followed.
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
Memory (RAM): 6.00 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
Primary hard disk: 500GB
System type: 64-bit operating system (running windows Vista, upgrading to windows 7).
Processor Cores: 8
Fans: 6 (that opperate on a tempature base).
The reason my computer costed $6200 is because I have two special programs that costed about $2000.00.
The programs are ZoomText and Kurzweil 1000.
I also have a 23'' flat-screen monitor.
I joined eGO on January 1st, 2009. I've been having a blast playing with everyone and I look forward on getting to know everyone.
Feel free to add me on steam: matthew29911992
I'm sorry for the long post but I like to type, so there you go.
Sincerely,
Blindy