I am a father of two girls, grandfather of four.

Ex-Army and Ex-Coast Guard.

Was medically retired and then medically discharged.

I somehow earned a BS in Computer Science with minors in Mathematics and Physics and an MS in Computer Science.

I am more or less retired due to medical issues.

I am becoming proficient at crashing on my bike and injuring myself.

I am a bad cook, but enjoy it.

Struggling at gardening and dislike it, but am still trying to get better at it.

Keeper of Guppies, a Mystery Snail and an African Dwarf Frog.

Best friend of Ragnar, an awesome Shar-pei/Black Lab (or Pit Bull?) mix.

Attempting to learn guitar and the Russian language.

In short, a nobody.

Likes: Ruby, Elixir, Kotlin and when I am in the right mood, C. Algorithms, data structures, networking cyber-security, building computers, economics, art history, astronomy, fishing, hiking, bicycling, puzzles, and mathematics.

Dislikes: Java, Python, Rust, Perl, databases, web development - at least front-end stuff. Also, psychology and gardening.

Seething-Hatreds: PHP, the English language, and broccoli.

The original purpose of this site was self-improvement. An attempt to see where I went wrong and where to improve myself, so I would be fit for polite society.

That failed in spectacular fashion leaving it obvious that I have no options other than to be alone.

The reason that I posted it online was to force myself to try to have complete thoughts and write in complete sentences that are at least somewhat intelligible.

Now, this is focused on hobbies, interests and activities of mine in the hopes that I can help someone. I left the older posts up, again in hope that it may prove useful, or at least provide you with a good laugh and to remind me of my failures.

I have no one to talk to, so I am left to screech into the void.

I have training and lots of experience on both the boat and howitzer

Comments are open in the highly unlikely event that someone has something to add. Questions and topical comments are welcome as long as it is reasonably polite. They do not have to be on topic.

Insults will be deleted and are pointless. Trust me, I insult myself worse on a daily basis than you could ever do.

I am big into music, so I often embed music videos, most have little or nothing to do with the topic at hand, but they are there to make it more entertaining.

Sometimes, just sometimes, they do relate but often in ways that only my broken mind can see.

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