1. Horrible childhood to teen which ends with mother’s suicide, homelessness, graduated high school.
2. Post school, retail management, dating, marriage. Fandom
3. Marriage, fatherhood, unemployment, writing, BBS, IT training, re employment in retail management
4. Start of IT career, fandom event management
5. Then 9/11 happened, life went to shit, more fandom management, first novel published
6. Running an event corporation, second novel published
7. Wife’s death, a desert wasteland of malaise, Trump elected lost just b because of him, retirement from running event corporation
8. Dating again, start working from home, remarriage, health problems fixing up.

So… Here we are.