This semester, a friend of mine talked me into taking an e-commerce class. It was not the direction I planned to go, but I said what the hell, I have been unemployed for some time, whats one more class in a different direction. I had done HTML and photoshop stuff many years ago (1997-2001) so it was not hard to pick up.

I told my friend Paul about the new class, (a long time friend, different guy than the one I was taking a class with) and he began to instruct me in CSS. (something I had not seen, nor understood much, but I picked it up quickly) This lead to doing photoshop and CSS/HTML constantly for the last 2 months, homework, personal website, I am even learning WordPress.

So Paul tells me the other day in google chat... "I have a photoshop challenge for you..."

...and that's how it began

He started to explain... "you make maps..." and he showed me some of your links here, and sent me a bunch of textures from various sources.

While chatting I made this in about 30 minutes...

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