Sir Thomas, a young man, and a budding programmer was overjoyed when for his birthday he got a computer upgrade from the Vic-20 to the Commodore 64. He elaborately weaved a fantasy world and tried to fool his younger brother into believing that he was working for some underground research facility for the Department of Defense where he had a trapdoor in his bedroom leading down to tunnels heading to the compound. His brother always was sneaking into his room and getting into his stuff, including logging onto his computer. So one day, he programmed a interface where if he brother got into his computer he would accidentally tap into his secret password and into the government computer system so that his brother would believe him. It was a joke he played for a few years. Still very much into arcade games, fantasy role playing, heavy metal, and girls. Stage magic was falling off as a focus, so was real magic. He was more interested in having fun and hanging out with his friends, learning to be a teenager. He was really interested in horseback riding, having mastered English style, he was now onto Western style. He was a non-stop addict on snow skiing. He loved to do chinese downhill. Flirtations with the girls in band. One of those flirtations led to him getting involved with a girl that he lost his virginity to. As a dedicated Catholic altar boy, he all of a sudden felt ashamed, guilty, and like a sinner after the fact. He immediately went to his Catholic priest for confession for having had sex before marriage. It was a very rough period for him. The priest just gave him a few “Hail Mary”s and “Our Father”s to say, and he was cleansed of his sin and told not to do it again. He obsessed himself more with his Commodore 64 after that point, and started to head down the path of becoming a Nerd. Luckily, that didn’t last, his friends lured him out and more trouble was on the horizon. He was continuously sneaking out of his window at night to head off to the Monthly showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and would dress up participating in the movie play.