Welcome to the online home of Rafael David González. Although I may be unaware of the fact that you are currently visiting my website, you should not doubt for one second that I would be delighted to know that you are here.

I am a bipedal primate residing in Miami, Florida. I was born in the lovely city of Madrid, Spain in the year 1973, which, coincidentally, is also the name of the first single released from English singer-songwriter James Blunt's second studio album All the Lost Souls. I share my life with Alex Farias, who is also a bipedal primate, although younger in age (the Earth has only completed 30 revolutions around the Sun since his birth). He was born in the at-times-picturesque, at-times-ugly city of Miami, Florida.

With the aid of my parents, I came to this city on an airplane at six months of age, which means any memories of Spain I may possess are buried in some deep layer of my subconscious mind. My mind is a vessel for many memories of events I have lived through during my life. I could keep these memories to myself, or I could share them with you, at this point the engrossed reader of my website. Let your eyes continue their left-to-right scans of the light rays coming from your monitor and you will read about some of these memories. Close your web browser now or fail to pay your electric bill on time and this will suddenly become impossible for you. Do choose wisely, for your stay on this planet is limited to a little over a century at most, and how you invest your time will determine whether you make the best of this vacation from unconsciousness.

I remember discovering a love for music which initially was focused on oldies. I used to record songs off the radio onto audio cassettes for later enjoyment. At some point, I hooked up my stereo to my Hi-Fi VCR and I would record hours of music on VHS tapes, which, I remember reading somewhere, provided higher audio quality than standard audio cassettes.

I had other passions in my younger years, such as a love for computers. I owned and enjoyed Atari 8-bit computers for a long time, many times typing in programs from COMPUTE!, a computer magazine, and saving them on audio cassettes. At some point, I upgraded to a disk drive, and this was a very welcome upgrade. No longer would I have to fast forward and rewind tapes to specific counter numbers to locate a program. I always wanted an Atari 16-bit computer once those came out, but my parents could not afford to get me one. Then, one day, my mom got me the IBM PCjr, and my PC-DOS era commenced. I believe it was a Christmas present. The first version of PC-DOS I worked with was 2.1. I eventually got an IBM PS/2 Model 50. It featured one megabyte of RAM, a 20-megabyte (MB) hard drive, and an Intel 80286 processor running at 10 MHz (for comparison, my current main computer runs at 2330 MHz and has 1024 MB (1 GB) of RAM. Its built-in hard drive has a capacity of 232.57 GB.) However, before geting this machine (an Apple iMac), I had an IBM Aptiva which also was the first ever means I had to watch DVDs. My first DVD movie was The Net. Once I met Alex, we got a Compaq laptop together. This would be our last Windows computer. We ran across the Mac Mini at Best Buy at some point and decided to purchase it because it was "so cute." We got into Macintosh quickly and swiftly abandoned Windows as our operating system of choice. For Christmas, 2006, we got this iMac and have been delighted with it since.

Alex and I broke up on April 21, 2008. It was an amicable break-up and we are now good friends. We are there for each other when the need arises. I would like for us to reconcile and get back together one day. Only time will tell. I care for him deeply and this will never change. He will always be an important part of my life.

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