More introduction

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I’ve had some new folks join lately and realize the introduction I did was 11 years ago, so thought it should be updated.
It is still mostly right:
https://fbhjr.dreamwidth.org/1031545.html

My wife and I have now been married 32 1/2 years (11924.845 days).
The sword troupe has now done 524 shows, and I personally have done 501 with it.
Our godkids are older, out of college and have jobs. They do not come spend time in the summer with us as they did. Sad, but not unexpected.
That trip to Wales and England I was about to take 11 years ago was great.

I worked for that robot freezers company for 10 years (3693 days), then went to a battery company for renewable sources. That went out of business very suddenly a little over a year ago. Sad as it was very close to home and was an easy commute.

Not quite a year ago (345.07 days) I started at an AI science company. It’s a specialized AI that reads research papers and looks for experiments that have been missed or other links to find new things. Then my group builds the experiments to see if it is right. That information goes back into the AI to make it better at finding these things and hopefully we’ve found a new metal, or medication or method that some company is interested in buying from us.
It is very strange for me to be doing this after 39 years of designing product that was to be made in quantity and sent to customers.
Lots of fast experiments that may only be run enough to prove the idea, then move on is a very different mindset and I still have trouble with it sometimes.

Sadly the drive here isn’t very good. The main office is right near MIT on the banks of the Charles river. I drove there every day for 8 months before they moved me to the office on the outskirts of Cambridge. Technically it is farther from home at this office, but as I don’t have to drive by MIT and Harvard to do it, if is often much quicker. It’s still in the best of times at least an hour drive. More often an hour and a quarter.

Since Covid we’ve traveled a lot more. Covid hit me very hard and made me the sickest I’ve ever been. So, after that my wife and I said we’d start crossing things off the bucket list we spent almost 40 years making.
Now we can say we’ve walked on every continent and seen a lot of places.
But, not everything on the list yet, so we’re still going places.

Just over a week ago (May 16th) I reached the 40th anniversary of giving up alcohol. It’s strange to have done something longer than Moses roamed the desert. Not really something I had thought about back in 1986 when I first said “no thanks”…

And, when all is said and done, I’m still and old, fat, white guy.

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