Before I discovered X Marks:

1. I could pronounce the word "kilt" but had no clue what it meant besides some checked cloth wrapped around some guys archibald.

Now that I've been here a year I own five kilts, have made one, am making another one, will make ANOTHER one shortly after that and was intimately involved in the process of creating and producing a new tartan.

2. Before I came to X Marks I knew that Scotland was North of England and had a pretty coastline.

Now I'm a member of a clan association, can properly pronounce the word "Culloden", know the difference between a plaid and a leine, and have attended a summers worth of Highland Games.

The list goes on............. not to mention the brothers that gather at the Devils Canyon Brewery on the last Friday of every month for kilts and Scottish Ale.