a lost boy who joined the army at 17, left service after the first war against Iraqi (Desert Storm), became a senior engineer at a geosynchronous satellite communications company, quit, trained dogs, divorced, re-geeked and became a field engineer for a cable company, laid off in 2002 when the "tech bubble burst", became a naturopath, "retired" to write about health, now working on my undergrad in Communication Arts in preparation for graduate studies in psychology.