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Merry Meet and Brightest Blessings!


Hello everyone! Welcome to Rayden's Rants! I'm Rayden Darklighter, and these are my "rants"! 

First I'd like to say thanks to Mrs. B for allowing me to be a part of her Haunted Blog tour, I am deeply honored.



I started this blog about 5 months ago, to put my thoughts and opinions on "paper". I had no idea it would develop a life of it's own, but in some ways, I feel like it has. I have made some awesome friends since I've been here, and I am amazed every day with the things I read from fellow bloggers.


For those of you that may not have been here to visit before, let me tell you a little about me.


I'm a 38 year old father of 3 gorgeous daughters, unhappily married(check out some of my older posts to see details on this), and fairly new to a pagan path. I spent some time in the U. S. Navy after graduating high school, including a deployment to the Persian Gulf for Operation Desert Storm(for info on this, check out my second post). After that I had some odd jobs before embarking on a ten year career working on cars. I went to a local vo-tech school a couple of years ago and got an associate's degree in network administration, and have had two jobs since working on computers, both of which I lost due to layoffs. I am presently still unemployed, so as it is for so many these days, life is particularly challenging.


I started down my pagan path about 7 months ago, and in that time, I have done a complete overhaul of my attitude on life and my connection to the planet, and found a patron god (Cernunnos) and goddess (Freya). I found a totem animal in the stag, and at present, I am studying the tarot.

I collect old and new desktop computer hardware and tinker with it. I have enough hardware right now to build at least a dozen functional computers, although most of them would be too slow to be of any practical use to anyone. I have a dream of opening a museum dedicated to old computers, so the children of tomorrow can see how far the PC has come. 

I also love to take laptops apart and fix them. It's my absolute favorite thing to do whenever I get the chance and can tear myself away from facebook. Both of these "hobbies" have GOT to be mental diseases of some sort, I swear.

But anyway, thanks for stopping by, and please feel free to check out some of my older posts. 


Love and light!