This is the story of how I came to use Emacs and other things I'm tired of repeating myself so I'm writing this down so I don't have to. You're probably only here if you asked me how I came to learn about Emacs and the CLI and other things. Well, this is the story: It begins with a Pandemic. The Pandemic. Yes, that one. I know it's a long time ago now for most people, but that's where it starts.