Hello, salutations, good evening and good night. It is my honor to finally join geekhack after lurking around for a good while and pining over all these keyboards I don't have/can't afford.
Introductions have always been kind of awkward for me, but I suppose I'll start by sharing some of my background, both keyboard and non-keyboard related.
I'm currently in school and working as an electrician (in school to become a journeyman, working as an apprentice.) While it's good work, It's not what I originally intended, which was more along the lines of electrical engineering. However, the idea of electrical engineering was originally sparked by me and my brother building custom computers and their peripherals in highschool. Everyone knows you don't need a master's degree to do this though. At any rate, I love trying to understand how things work, how they can be changed, and how that helps me in trying to make them better. This is also the reason why I love to play video games, which brings me to my keyboard related background.
Having never even touched a mechanical keyboard, I bought my first about a year ago, the CM Quickfire Rapid with Cherry MX blue switches. Now, with the controversy I've seen with key switch preferences around here, I know what some of you are thinking, but my goodness, could this girl dance...I didn't even mind the noise. In fact, I loved it! It felt and sounded so good to type on because I could clearly feel and hear the keys as I pressed them. Sadly though, desperate times call for desperate measures, and being the poster child for minimum wage at the time, I had to sell both my beloved keyboard and my computer.
But this story has a happy, because now, I'm not poor!
In fact, I've rebuilt my rig, and it's running even better than I had anticipated. The only thing missing now is to invest in a new keyboard to go along with it, and from what I've seen, there a number that I hadn't even known about. Honestly, I'm probably more interested in modifying keyboards to fit my (and others') unique purposes rather than just buying tons of different gear, but both are exciting, and I'm very happy to finally be getting back into this hobby!