Locations: Rochester NY, Parris Island, Hawaii ( USMC ), San Francisco (various), Berkeley, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, and now and forever Corvallis OR.
Vocationally: I worked as an Oracle and Informix Database Admin while freelancing in San Francisco. While working at Lawrence Berkeley Lab (Operations, Consulting, Business Programming) I spent time programming in C, Pascal(!), CICS, all the Unix Shells and utility programs, and also Fortran and eventually Cobol in the business department. I moonlighted for the NIH in a cancer research program, transferring data from the CDC tape drives to Unix tape format. What i like to do now is to build websites to your specifications, and specialize in WordPress. WP is very nice particularly if you are going to do writing or want have an internet business card, or something informational. I believe WordPress is the best choice/framework for that. For folks interested in search engine optimizations I recognize their difficulty. The two things most important for them is regularly writing new content, and domain authority (including the age of the domain).
While in Santa Rosa we assisted Pamela Rosenthal with a Dog Rescue “North Bay Beagles”, no longer in operation. We currently have hounds – May May ( a “cock a doodle” voicing at early morning ), George, Garrin, and Foxy. Pam in charge.