Hello, Hi, How Are You? (Not that I really care, just trying to be nice)
About me:
Emerged from the womb of the woman I call my mother at the start of the Six Day War. Was a little on the rare side, so I spent the next week in the cooker before being released to the care and feeding of my genetic contributors.
Spent the next 18 years trying not to kill or maim myself while discovering my purpose in life.
Results: Nothing broken, but lots of stitches.
No truly definite purpose of life was defined through this process so I went to college and studied Economics which of course led to a short career as a Yacht Captain. Can you beieve that there are actually people out there with so much money and such a lack of purpose that they pay other people to explore thorougly explored sunny places on earth.
I highly recommend this method of hitchhiking. It's self supporting, the locations are pleasant, and the tan is wonderful for attracting members of the opposite sex for short term liasons (if you're into that kind of thing).
Not having a clue of course led to the end of that career and the need to get a "Real Job".
10 years later:
In my former "Real Job" I visited 11 countries as a Reliability Engineering Manager. The visits were usually not very pleasant, mostly they consisted of being flown into a big airport with lots of strange signs, getting into another mode of transportation and being deposited into an automobile assembly plant were people would yell at me in an incomprehensible language. My function was to be the target, smile, buy coffee, make a few colorful charts to explain why I was doing nothing. This was just a cover to hide the fact that the techincians were very busy trying to screw up the works.
My other function was to provide hypnotherapy for very busy engineers by presenting the methodology of Reliability Engineering and Throughput Simulation.
When it was determined that I was actually getting a clue as to my purpose in Life, I was summarily dismissed.
I've decided that my purpose is to become rich (I have to do this to support my flying habit), I just haven't figured out the details.
Things I learned so far:
- Don't bother to learn how to use a sextant for celestial navigation, the only time you would need to use your skills, it will be cloudy for a week.
- Every country on earth looks the same from the inside of an assembly plant. It is possible to tell where you are, however, by the the taste of the coffee and smell of the bathroom.
- Don't bother trying to organize your life into a device like a PDA or dayplanner, once it has enough knowledge or cash, it will will take a transdimensional wormhole to the seatback pocket or overhead bin of a random plane or train.
- "Crazy Glue" is much more convienient for closing wounds than stitches or staples.
- The road to Hell can be closed.
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