I just read this for the first time. I will have to go back and read the other thread.

I am a POST-NERD that did not realize that I was one.

Somehow when I wasn't looking I became a grownup. A DAD. A Husband..... A Scout Leader. I mean I have a house, cars, pets, A JOB, payments. I go to parent teacher conferences. I join committees. (Once I even played the Easter Bunny in the Neighborhood Easter Egg hunt dressed in a Bugs Bunny Costume. I traumatized a little girl and my for life as a result. I knocked her over with my feet while turning around to see who wanted an Easter Egg. My son thought the Easter Bunny had ate his daddy when he heard my voice coming from the costume..

I am an APPTENTICE ECCENTRIC (I like what I like, and if it means wearing my old green cap and other comfortable clothes, singing in the halls, and NOT choosing to own a cell phone, then so be it. I will be a full blown eccentric if I ever win the lottery and have enough money for people to notice, or get old enough to putter full time). My DAD is a retired professor that is quickly attaining that lofty status.

I am a perennial beginning musician and banjoist. I love music in all of it's forms and styles. Yet the only instrument that I have ever mastered is my Washtub Bass.

and Oh by day

I play at being a Prognosticator and Soothsayer Extrodinaire proficient at peering into the mists of time using modern Difference Engines to fathom the future meanderings of our children's children at they scurry hither and thither in response to the stimuli of life. I also attempt to fathom how extending the eyes, ears, and "intelligence" of these new golems of the modern world can help each of us to minimize the impact of our scurrying on others.

(I forecast future land use and travel patterns, and also pretend to be a "intelligent transportation system" and planning expert.

GutBucket (JAB)