Fell asleep at LAN party. Woke up and had Linux installed.
No but seriously, went to library to pick up books about this coder/demoscene buzzword which were floating around at LAN parties. A friend told me to look for books titled Visual Basic, every one of which were borrowed by someone else. Went home with some kind of C++ introductory book.
Thank spaghetti-monster for that!
Programmed 2 hours each day for about two years. Then I started playing CS...
Surfed on my previously gathered knowledge all the way to last year of grade school, where I had to work on my diploma (involving gpu simulation and water visualization).
Currently working as a .NET developer for a small company. Just finished the biggest wtf of my life. But I will be nice and not publish it . . . yet =)