After reading about how we got our log in names to the forum. A lot of stories were interesting. I am a big Knicks fan and I log on because when I'm on this site the everyday woes that I am going through help ease the pain. I have a son that has been locked up for over 3 years. I sent him to private schools we lived in a great neighborhood inground pool and I was there for him. That was not enough. I have 8 kids. Well not kids anymore. My youngest she is a freshman in college. Back in the day I was a major player in the music biz friends with the Knicks players going to the whos who parties. Now I do my gospel music. I was use to a lot of attention back in the day. My friends are either dead or moved away and retired. My best friend lives in Neward at the YMCA he is an alcahalic a drunk but he is my best friend. I feel so bad for him. To keep my peace of mind I log onto the UltimateKnicks where I have some friends wheather we agree or disagree.
WHAT IS YOUR STORY?? PLEASE TELL THE TRUTH.

I think initially at least I tried to respond to each post on its own merit without really formulating a response to the poster, but over the years as I have become more attached to the Knicks, I have also become more invested in this forum and even if you conciously try not to you eventually start forming opinions about the posters and their behaviors. Some of the usual suspects like TMS, Bip, Martin, Nix and many others have contributed to my knowledge of bball over time. Sine I lived in Carolina for 10 years and now in Ohio, I have little chance of ever meeting you guys or going to the UK get togethers, so for me at least it's great to read about the stories behind the names that I have been interacting with.
(And I am not cool enough to be invited to Bip's get togethers )

Thanks for sharing your story, I sorry to hear about your son. I hope things work out for the better for you.

I am an Indian immigrant who came to the US to work on "IT Jobs". I started in 1996 and while I was single moved around quite a bit doing medium term contracts. I have lived and worked in CT. NY, NJ, MI, OR, CA, NC and now OH. So as you can tell from my posts "I have been all over the place". I got married in 2000 and moved to NC in 2001 with anew job. For a while life was good and career was going ok. Then I started on my exec MBA program @ Duke which you do simultaneously with your full time job. It was stressful and took a lot out of me but I was doing ok. On the 15th month of the 20 month program my wife who was almost 6 months pregnant had a miscarriage. (Nixluva and Crush, I can relate). That was the most emotionally challenging situation I have ever faced. She was devastated and to compound everything I got laid off in 2007 while I was still completing the MBA program. My grades fell of the cliff and it took every ounce of our strength to keep it together through that time. In a crazy kind of parallel to Nixluva's story, Sirius (my 110 lb German shepherd) was like the only bright spot in our lives.

After that I worked contract job (2007 - 2010) and our daughter was born in Oct 2009 and she is the best thing that has ever happened to us. My contract ended in May and I had to look for a job in the worst job market in decades. It took six months and it wasn't fun, but we made it work. It's amazing how much positive energy a baby can create!! Now we have moved to OH and looking forward to little bit of normalcy.

So to answer your question on the thread, this place has provided me an outllet where I could escape reality at times, for that I am grateful to y'all.

Nalod wrote:Lowey, thanks for sharing.......Hope is a strong feeling!

Yeah things are def looking better. She was born in 2009 and the Yankees won it all within days of that! Then Duke won the NCAA in 2010 and now India has won te World cup in 2011 - Living the dream.