[ChrisMarshallNY]

I'm happy to be where I am. I've had to go through everything that I did, to become the person that I am, now. That includes lots of mistakes and bad judgment, embarrassment, wasted money and time, etc.

I have said, that, if I could go back to being 20, I would want the body, but not the mind that went with it.

I've usually been forced to take the paths I've taken. Pretty much every big advance in my life has been heralded by fecal matter impacting an air circulation device. Being forced into early retirement, by SV’s notorious ageism, is an example. It really pissed me off, but now that I’ve been out of the rat race for a few years, I am kicking myself for not doing it sooner.

If my life would have gone the way I wanted, it would have sucked like a supermassive, galaxy-core, black hole.