There is not much remarkable to report here. I retired after a long career in government service and soon found my way back into the private sector, where I continue working with technology, cybersecurity, and digital forensics.
I have been tinkering with computers for longer than I care to calculate. In the dial-up days, I operated a bulletin board system and was FidoNet node 1:151/135. I was also part of PhotoNet, although that node number has long since disappeared from memory. Those early systems probably explain why I still enjoy making old and new technology do things it was not necessarily designed to do.
These days, my projects tend to involve Linux, macOS, Windows, home servers, audio equipment, photography, and whatever interesting piece of hardware happens to follow me home from a thrift store. I can usually cobble together a useful Bash or PowerShell script and continue trying to improve my Python skills. Past projects have included small forensic utilities, microphone controls, data-retrieval tools, home-server monitoring, and various experiments that seemed like a good idea at the time. Some of them may eventually make it to my mostly neglected GitHub repository.
Music and audio have become increasingly large hobbies. I enjoy listening, comparing equipment, measuring headphones, restoring and organizing a digital music collection, and occasionally using modern tools to create songs from stories and memories. I also still enjoy photography and have been known to take old clocks and give them new faces.
Away from the screens, I spend time with my wife and our nearby extended family, ride a bicycle for exercise, and generally remain curious about how things work. This site is where some of those interests, experiments, discoveries, and occasional misadventures end up.