The big "What is your background?" topic

[Autolupus]

Oh, from the tiniest acorn...

[G8INA]

Name: David Harris

Nickname: G8INA (radio ham callsign)

Nationality: English

Age: 51

Marital status: Married, 3 children, 29/23/23 yes twins)

Job: Medically retired electronics engineer. Fibromyalgia has forced retirement

Powerball experience: 2 days

Sense of humor: Bigger than yours :P

Current speed record: 11072 R only

Further hobbies: Music, Films, PCs, Photography, Twitching (bird watching)

[MosterMarie]

Name: Marie Wahlstedt
Nickname: M-Marie
Nationality: Swedish

Age: 37 (38 on the 24th of January)

Marital status: Newly engaged to the most wonderful man on earth... Mile I, love you, no children, 1 dog (Golden Retriever)
Job: Working for the Swedish road administration
Powerball experience: 1 month.

Sense of humor: Laugh hysterically watching "Absolutly Fabulous"

Current records: Look at my signature

Current Goals: To reach top 10 in the different Ladies Leauges.
Will it ever happen?! Who knows... Struggling to get there.

Motto: "PowerBalling Necesse Est" and I'm also driving a Volvo wich is Latin and means "I'm rolling" so "Volvo", is my second motto.

[petemayhew]

Name: Peter Mayhew
Nationality: British
Age: 14
Hometown: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Weight: 10 stone
Height: 5'5" approx
Marital Status: urm ...
Job: Work in a bar =]
Humour: laughs at most things, expecially Lee Evans
Powerball experience: 2 months
Current speed records: 13106 RH ... look at signature
Current Target: 13500
Powerballs owned: Signature Series & 250Hz Pro Blue
Further hobbies: I play nearly every sport, Football, Rugby, Basketball. But my main ones are Tennis, Badminton, Squash and anything with a racket!

[Installed]

Nice to see more guys my age around. You work in a bar lmao?

[petemayhew]

lol yea as 'washer upper'

[One-Eye]

Nick: One-Eye
Name: Andrew Shapter
Age: 36 (only just, birthday was Wednesday =D)
Height: 6'1"
Weight: Haven't checked for a bit, approx 14.5-15 stone
Location: Birmingham, UK
Job: Contracts Manager in family business (Civil engineering contractor)
PB's Owned: Metal 350hz, 2 x Signature Series, 2 x Original, 2 x Original Pro, Original Pro 'Screamer', Blue Neon Pro
PB's Will Get: Techno, Red & Green Neon Pro's, possibly 2 x Amber Original Pro's
Fav PB: At the moment....toss up between Metal and Blue Neon
Yrs PB'ing: None, well just over a month now, got first PB a week before Crimbo 2006 =D
Other Interests: Golf, beer, computers, gaming (Counter Strike:Source ftw!!)
Likes: Pina coladas and getting caught in the rain
Hates: Bovril/Marmite, Mini Cheddars and people who wear hats in cars
Current Records: Check scoreboards =D

[GILPI]

Name: Adam Gilpin
Nationality: British
Age: 15
Hometown: Thetford, Norfolk
Weight: just under 10 st
Height: 6ft 0 maybe 1"
Marital Status: well.... she's not reli my wife :P
Job: lazy so and so, dont have 1
Humour: << never heard of it :P
Powerball experience: 33 days 22 hours 17 minutes and 47 seconds
Current speed records: 12158 ( pretty useless )
Current Target: 12500 at least
Powerballs owned: broken green neon pro lol want an amber pro
Further hobbies: Tennis ( number 1 ) badminton football rugby powerballing etc.... could be here for a couple of years...

[lhnova]

Name: Linus Hofmann
Nationality: Swiss (living in Ireland)
Age: 19
Hometown: Ballydehob, County Cork.
Weight: 11.1 stone
Height: 6,1'
Marital Status: n/a
Job: Freelance CG/3D artist
Powerball experience: 5 Days :s
Current speed records: RH 11,927 LH 11,140
Current Target: 12,000
Powerballs owned: 1x 250Hz Blue Pro 1x 250Hz Amber Pro
Other Interests: Stuff which involves sitting in front of a screen, fishing, 3D graphics, powerballing, watching TV....etc.

First post on these forums so, hey everyone

[hugh495]

name: hugh williams
nationality: british
age 20,but 21 tomorrow
weight,62Kg
height 1.75m ish
job: none im a student
i have a PB metal,and blue pro
PB experience,since end of october 06
current records,RH 12558 metal 10051
targets 13k and 10250:to get onto top 100 metal
other intrests,computer gaming(ut2k4),swimming,pool,darts,beer

to petemayhew lee evans is a king! just bought his 6 dvd boxset