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Warlock MD saw the light for the first time on a Saturday (a cool day to be born) January 18th of 1975, around 4:30 a.m. (in the inhospitable and horrible City of Tijuana), and even as he screamed and pleaded to put him back in his mother womb, 10 months were more than enough to be kept in (and more than enough for any woman). He lived under the protection and the affection of both parents and brother's company up to 1985 in the year in that Halley's comet passed and his parents got divorced, creating an atmosphere of temporary insecurity, depression and emotional shock; moving to their grandmother's house (including his mother) while its mother's current residence was built.

During his toddler years his aunt (dad's sister) called him "The Earthquake" for his mischievous behavior and for his affinity to water and puddles (he just couldn't resist splashing water)

In 1987 (3 years after the divorce), on December 24 at 8:45 o'clock p.m. (during his 1st year of junior high school) in a routine yearly trip to Los Angeles to celebrate Christmas with his father, brother and the father's family (mom stayed in Rosarito); while playing at night while waiting to open the presents, Warlock MD, brother and cousins played around a car; he climbed up the car, fell to the floor and broke his left arm, causing to lose his ignorance on home safety (and the subsequent annual trips to Los Angeles), and leaving to the family with a strong sum of medical and hospitalization receipts and, causing Warlock MD to have a boring and calmed adolescence.

When he saw his social life as a frustration during the adolescence and more to the knowledge that the chicks didn't want to dance with him on parties, Warlock MD was forced to resign to study for the rest of this teenage period. Walking one day on the mall he realized something that opened him the doors (and it emptied his wallet), he saw a sign on a computer school with the following "If you study with us, we will give you a computer when you finish your course", yep that's it cyberfolks, Warlock MD was devoted to study an Analyst Programmer course (back in 1992), that which opened his eyes and expanded his computer knowledge (apart from the TRS-80 MC-10 that it used since he was 7 years old), finishing the course and graduating with other 8 schoolmates (of the 22 that originally entered). After that, the school closed and the directors ran with the loot (CEIT "Centro de Estudios Informáticos y Tecnológicos", the people who ran the school STILL owe us the computer's paperwork, too late for that now...).

After 5 years of high school (2 in COBACH in Rosarito, and the remaining ones in CBTIS 155 in Tijuana, during the change a course in electronics), in which he graduated as a Technician in Administrative Computer Science (with high honors in the art of the Hacker on behalf teachers and students). A few months into Computer Engeneering School at UABC, he finally dropped out because he could not draw straight enough, so a year and a half later he ended up at UAG in Tijuana (he made a webpage about that local school around the time when GeoShities and Yahoo joined up, he could not get to edit my page after that since he had to redo his account and...well you know the deal if you had a page before that =/ ), after 2 years he finally graduated with an Associates Degree in ISA (Information Systems Administrator), taking pride in a few things: 1.- out of the 8 people who started the class in october of 1998, he was the only one to finish the carreer. 2.- He got the Top of the Class award (all 3 carreers included). He is now waiting for someone to hire him with a high paying job (hint-hint)

Initiated in Freemasonry (of which he now a Master Mason) at age 18 years, he was the first of a chain of young, progressive and venturesome people of Rosarito initiations in Lodge Manuel P. Barbachano No. 18, he retired being Senior Warden, just a few weeks of ending up being Worshipful Master at age 20-21 (maybe the youngest in the history of the Baja California State, and maybe still of the Country), he decided to retire temporarily to gather forces and to obtain more experience in life (with good reviews from his Dear Brothers around the state); with good wishes and a speedy return from his Brothers, who they all miss him.

He met his now Wife around January 9th of 1995, going on their first date on January 21 1995 to a monthly meeting of the San Diego Computer Society (he was a member then, looking to rejoin in the future), at Horton Plaza in Downtown San Diego their lips played touched for the first time unleashing a chain reaction that changed both their lives. Warlock MD and his Wife are inseparable, and they want that everybody to understand that we all are one; one with the universe and that there is no such thing as a coincidence, all actions and thoughts are somehow linked within the universe (but we'll leave the metaphysics for later =) ).

Our host has worked hard since he was 12 years old, at the beginning selling T-shirts in a place called Ortega's café; from there he went in search of adventures as an OPC (Outside Public Contact) for the company called Grand Baja Resort trying to convince people so that they buy time share; after that it was placed himself in an information booth of the COTUCO (Committee of Tourism and Conventions) of Rosarito, guiding tourists so much in English as in Spanish (once he tells of a German who arrived without knowing English or Spanish), from there while he studied Analyst Programming he worked with a foreigner, Mr. Lynn Sites (who was vive-president of DataQuick in San Diego) digitizing maps and transferring them from paper to CD-ROMS (a Cybernetic Salute to him), this was his first job with the use of the computers (around 1992-1993); after that he was devoted to study and to repair computers and to give consultantship to companies as to individuals, when the Engineer Ernest Ortega grabbed him to work as base technician for Computech of Mexico in Tijuana; during a rest he left to work as a data key-in person (capturist) in Datacenter (Newbies: stay far away from this company because they are miserable) he didn't last one month because they overworked and underpaid him, meanwhile he returned to Computech. After a while he got a job with a company called Bufete Industrial Constructions (project 1574 in Rosarito's Pemex plant, giving maintenance to the tanks and cooling line) where from a technician they send him down to a mere capturist and they maintained him this way it for around 11 months, he was eventfully laid off unfairly without at least saying "good-bye", so after that he looked for a job at the Federal Commission of Electricity where was head Computer Office Chief in the project called "C.C.C. Rosarito III" (a new upgrade to the Electric plant in Rosarito, where the contamination will be eliminated, substitute the diesel use for the use of natural gas); After a few months I got laid (laid off that is), I went thru all the newspapers and I got a job at CECUT (Tijuana Cultural Center), where I work in peace and harmony and *VERY* low pay, but the place and people are kewl, besides I get free movie tickets for the IMAX theather =P.


To communicate with him simply it send your e-mail to: Warlock.MD@TheOffice.NET

 

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