#oldhere. With Pluspora shutting down it made me think of creating re-introduce-myself post. Please feel free to place me in your aspects if it seems we may have similar interests. I'm a software engineer in Chandler, Arizona. I have four daughters, and five grandchildren. Wendy, the love of my life, and I have been married for 36 years. Spent much of my religious life as one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Left that faith in 2007 and now self-identify as an atheist. Yet with my pull towards the religious not going away I joined Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation in 2015. Originally from Canada we become citizens here in 2010. I'm a registered Democrat with my politics leaning left, but perhaps not as far left as Montana my 18-year-old daughter :-). I started college late in life (at 49) and am currently in Calculus III. I have a life-goal of reading, at least once, every major sacred text. Just started the Adi Granth (sacred scripture of Sikhism).

I often find myself guided by the Stoic thought that "good" and "evil" only exist within oneself. Work good toward all and work to change the world for the better, but in the meantime accept the world as it is. I also often find myself repeating the Hindu phrase "renounce the fruit of action" that I see as a comment to act for the good, but don't demand an specific results.

In regards to software engineering. Be humble about it. Mistake are easy to make. Localize your errors. With error messages, report what you know, not what you think and don't editorialize.

Kind regards, -Randy