The simple truth is I’m not hung up on me. I don’t sit around analyzing myself and what my colleagues or neighbors are thinking or not thinking.

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Before video games we kids played with marbles. There were ‘funsies’ where the participants would simply play for the fun of it. Then there were ‘keepsies’ or a type of wager where the loser lost his marbles thus introducing many an innocent child to the risks of gambling in a brutally cruel world. There were many variations in between and we played most of them with great vigor, learning a lot about ourselves and each other in the process.

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For those who work in the IT support industry there is a constant flow of funny and sometimes hilarious cases of clients who really do have no clue at all. Before you laugh too hard however please remember that not everyone is IT proficient. Often they come from a generation where machines had gears and if you did something wrong; it was a fast way to lose a finger.

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The world of projector installation has kept me busy for some time now. Not a vocation as such but I do like to take a pride in my work. I’ve seen the inside of all manner of schools and teaching institutions during this job. From the upper class private schools who use projector installation for inbuilt cinema entertainment to the local comprehensives who have just discovered technology.

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At my age I thought I’d seen it all. But, after living in Thailand for a year I gave thanks to my mother for seeing that I was potty-trained in the good ole’ U.S. of A.

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