Ydfalcon
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:22 am
I suppose I should make my formal introduction here after hanging around making occasional posts for the last several months.
My actual name is Eric Weide. The last name is pronounced like "whitey" or the letter Y, followed by the letter D. (Hence the nickname "yd" I have among friends and, coupled with BG, why I use the name "Ydfalcon" nearly everywhere I have an existence on the internet. I am currently a senior at BG, but before that I grew up in the Dayton area. For those familiar, I lived in Huber Heights up until I started high school, when we moved to Beavercreek. While at Beavercreek High School, I ran cross country and track for the school, and also took up cycling and ultimate frisbee as side hobbies. I still run a few times a year, and enjoy a game of pick-up ultimate with friends, but cycling is the only one that I can say I still do with regularity. It was also during my time in high school that I truly became the music fan I am today.
I would certainly not describe myself as having any musical talent, but I am a big fan of it. I tend to stick mostly the various sub-genres within rock and roll, from oldies to classic rock to a few modern bands as well, but admittedly it takes a special modern band for me to like them, as a lot of it seems to be rather weak these days. A few years ago, I started collecting records (as in those pieces of vinyl with music on them), and while my collection isn't the kind of thing you saw John Cusack's character have in "High Fidelity," it does have a few gems in it here and there.
I am (for about another month) a member of the Ohio Air National Guard, based out of Springfield. I joined right out of high school to help pay for college and now, six years later, it's been a really good experience. I decided to get out because my term of enlistment is up in April and it just feels like a good time to be as unattached as possible, when I am about to graduate, and am recently engaged to a girl in Knoxville, TN, where I am planning to move as well as attempting to find a job in the event planning/promotions field.
The aforementioned fiancee is a Tennessee student, and through her, I have added the Vols to my list of college teams I follow, but BG will always be number one in my heart, even living in Knoxville. I am somewhat proud that I was never afflicted with the osu (intentionally lowercase) virus. Some of my best friends are fervent buckeye supporters, but I had friends at a young age who were Penn State fans, and I decided to root for them. As time went on, the PSU fan side in me died down, right as the BG fan emerged. I am also a big Reds fan, having grown up so close to Cincinnati, with two parents who grew up in Delhi and are both Reds fans as well.
For the time being, I work at the wonderful BG Meijer in the Deli. If you happen to stop by, I'm the guy with the BG, Reds and Tennessee logos on my name tag. There's of course more to me than that, but as you can probably already tell, I am extremely long-winded in written form, and so I don't want to keep anyone any longer than I already have. I am looking forward to lurking about making posts when I feel drawn to, and otherwise using what I can already attest is a great site (Thanks Grant!) to keep on BG news from afar once I move. Go Falcons! Roll Along!
My actual name is Eric Weide. The last name is pronounced like "whitey" or the letter Y, followed by the letter D. (Hence the nickname "yd" I have among friends and, coupled with BG, why I use the name "Ydfalcon" nearly everywhere I have an existence on the internet. I am currently a senior at BG, but before that I grew up in the Dayton area. For those familiar, I lived in Huber Heights up until I started high school, when we moved to Beavercreek. While at Beavercreek High School, I ran cross country and track for the school, and also took up cycling and ultimate frisbee as side hobbies. I still run a few times a year, and enjoy a game of pick-up ultimate with friends, but cycling is the only one that I can say I still do with regularity. It was also during my time in high school that I truly became the music fan I am today.
I would certainly not describe myself as having any musical talent, but I am a big fan of it. I tend to stick mostly the various sub-genres within rock and roll, from oldies to classic rock to a few modern bands as well, but admittedly it takes a special modern band for me to like them, as a lot of it seems to be rather weak these days. A few years ago, I started collecting records (as in those pieces of vinyl with music on them), and while my collection isn't the kind of thing you saw John Cusack's character have in "High Fidelity," it does have a few gems in it here and there.
I am (for about another month) a member of the Ohio Air National Guard, based out of Springfield. I joined right out of high school to help pay for college and now, six years later, it's been a really good experience. I decided to get out because my term of enlistment is up in April and it just feels like a good time to be as unattached as possible, when I am about to graduate, and am recently engaged to a girl in Knoxville, TN, where I am planning to move as well as attempting to find a job in the event planning/promotions field.
The aforementioned fiancee is a Tennessee student, and through her, I have added the Vols to my list of college teams I follow, but BG will always be number one in my heart, even living in Knoxville. I am somewhat proud that I was never afflicted with the osu (intentionally lowercase) virus. Some of my best friends are fervent buckeye supporters, but I had friends at a young age who were Penn State fans, and I decided to root for them. As time went on, the PSU fan side in me died down, right as the BG fan emerged. I am also a big Reds fan, having grown up so close to Cincinnati, with two parents who grew up in Delhi and are both Reds fans as well.
For the time being, I work at the wonderful BG Meijer in the Deli. If you happen to stop by, I'm the guy with the BG, Reds and Tennessee logos on my name tag. There's of course more to me than that, but as you can probably already tell, I am extremely long-winded in written form, and so I don't want to keep anyone any longer than I already have. I am looking forward to lurking about making posts when I feel drawn to, and otherwise using what I can already attest is a great site (Thanks Grant!) to keep on BG news from afar once I move. Go Falcons! Roll Along!
