Hi, my name is Jonah Horowitz and this is my History:(rough outline, more later)

I was born in Aspen, Colorado, just after Christmas (December 27th) on a stormy winter afternoon in 1976. I lived for two years up towards Ashcroft on Castle Creek Rd before moving (with my parents of course) to the house I really grew up in. That house was between Snowmass and Aspen on Medicine Bow Rd. Great house, only it was far away from all the bus routes so I had to get my parents to drive me anywhere I needed to go, needless to say they were less than thrilled when I stared to grow up, but I guess they brought that one upon themselves. (but I'm getting ahead of myself...)

My younger brother Yuri was born on a clear summer day, Fathers Day, June 15, 1980. The only interesting thing that happened between those two events was during the building of the house on Medicine Bow Road. There was a trap door in my fathers (soon to be) office and one day during a construction break I was wandering around and *poof* fell down the open hole. There was no damage done (some of my friends will argue otherwise), but it gave everyone there a sudden panic. Jared Rowe, one of the construction workers there (who would much later become a friend of mine) rushed to see if I was ok. I was happy as a clam down in the bottom of the hole. Jared dissapeard several years back, so if anyone reading this knows where he is please email me, I would really like to get back in touch with him.

For my early school years, I went to a school called Aspen Community School. It is a pretty cool hippie environment where kids get to do cool things. I can't say I learned much there, but we did have fun. I left there at 3rd grade to go into the Aspen Public School system. It is one of the best public schools in the country. About the same time my parents decided to split up. My father hung around in Aspen for a year before deciding to move to Miami, Flordia. I would follow him towards the end of 5th grade. My Mother and Yuri stayed in Aspen in the house on the hill.

I moved to Miami to live with my Father; I ended up attending Miami Country Day School. I had a great time in Miami, but at the end of 6th grade I convinced My Father to move back to Aspen with me. To this day, I wonder how different my life would have been if I had stayed in Miami, but so much for that.

I moved back to Aspen for my 7th grade year, and started back in the Aspen Public School system. I had my first real crush that year on a girl named Jenny Anderson (she still hates me). I met back up with a friend of mine from earlier on named Josh Wick. Josh was a crazy guy who liked running head on into walls, but we were good friends and did some pretty crazy things together. He moved away at the end of 8th grade to Boulder, Colorado, and I have only seen him once since. The only other really notable thing from middle school is that I hated my classes so much that I would sneak away and go to the computer lab when I could. This is where I developed my love for computers. The school had a "Talented and Gifted" program, and through this I was introduced to Nick DeWolf. Nick is a computer god. He is currently in sixties in but he still has long hair and he still hacks around with computers every day. His accomplishments are too numorus to list here, but something that everyone remembers him for is that he designed the fountain in Aspen. This was just one of his several really cool accomplishments. Anyway, Nick was set up as my mentor, and that relationship continues to this day.

I still need to put what happened through high school, and whatnot, but this is a start...