Since this region covers a few different states, I thought I'd start a thread for everybody to introduce themselves.
I'm glorkar and I'm from the Oshkosh/Berlin area of Wisconsin.
The nickname goes back to my childhood. I used to sketch and draw a lot. One day I drew a little alien-type thing and named it glorkar. I liked the way it sounded so I adopted it as my own nickname.
I'm fairly new to caching. I started in September of 2009. A friend of mine was talking about it at work one day and I decided to check it out. The rest is history.
I'm also a huge fan of benchmark hunting. I found my first one shortly after I started caching. A few months went by and I decided to really become active in it. GC.com was a good place to start, but has a very incomplete list of marks. Since then, using other resources, I have recovered (the benchmark hunting term for "found") around 90 benchmarks.