Donovan Colbert:  

Around 1986 I ran into some problems with my lifestyle and attitude and all but dropped off the face of the earth. I spent that time really involving myself with computers - a new direction for myself. I became pretty active in a pre-Internet local online community of dweebs, dorks, computer-geeks and, surprisingly enough, academics - who helped me patch up the lack of education that I had missed between Middle School and the end of High School. (They mostly helped me by mericlessly attacking my lack of ability to compose a decent sentence and otherwise berating my lack of formal education). These guys were mostly CSUS students and faculty who ran local Bulletin Board Systems called Citadels. I also met a guy from the Folsom area who became a lifelong friend during this period, so I spent a lot of the next few years out in that neck of the woods and lost track of the Land Park/Greenhaven crowd. At some point around 89 or 90 Eric Brookey and I met back up and he got me a job at Rico's Italian Pizza next to Nugget. I worked off and on there as driver, cook and assistant manager while I rebuilt my social contacts from the JFK area. That lasted until around early '91. I also began to party again, though nowhere near as destructively as I had been in High School and Middle School. I suppose I should mention that in '87 my Grandmother had passed away, leaving me an inheiretance and estate in the S. Land Park Hills area. For a 17-21 year old, I was pretty well financially set. My Nephew, Kelly Kiser moved in with us, and he was friends with Kevin Perry, Scott Perry, and an associated group of long time Land Park locals. I naturally grew to be part of this circle of frien...Expand for more