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About |
2018-08-20 08:37:43 -0700 |
I am a freelance web developer by profession and you can see my company website at UpgradeYa.com. The purpose of this site is to share my more personal interests and projects.
My most important project is my family. I spend as much time as I can with my wife and children. I figured out how I could work from home, partly to spend more time with my family.
I helped transition Free Talk Live into a Drupal 7 website and I am one of the current maintainers.
I work on various projects to help me (and hopefully others) use Linux and other open source projects. See my Patreon page to follow my work and support me. I also have a list of other projects I have worked on.
I exchange my services for bitcoin and I am a local exchanger in the Raleigh, North Carolina area. You can often find me at the Triangle Bitcoin Meetup which I help organize. If you are interested, my current bitcoin price can be found with this calculator.
I have been into fitness since the 1990s when I was involved in cross country and track sports. I was convinced that regular exercise was an important part of health for the human body. Although, 20 years later I learned that nutrition is an equally, if not more, important part of health. I learned this lesson because of chronic respiratory problems I was having, which was only cured by changing my diet to a diet which more closely conforms to what ancient humans might have eaten. Much of my understanding about this new way of eating is from the book Paleo in a Nutshell: Living and Eating the Way Nature Intended.
Through much of my early life I had little understanding of philosophy and I had even less knowledge about myself. I was disconnected with my own emotions and I didn't know what made me happy. After several bouts of mild depression due to unfulfilling jobs and relationships, I was finally about to begin making some decisions in my life which I believe lead me to a more sustainable and happy life.
I feel like I owe this change to several online resources and books including Free Talk Live, Freedomain Radio, Complete Liberty and Nathanal Branden's The Six Pillars of Self Esteem. I am also lucky to have had supportive friends and family while I made changes which surely challenged (threatened) their own beliefs.
I look forward to sharing, with those close in my life, strategies on how to communicate with each other in such a way that we are constantly trying to achieve happiness in each of our lives. This can sometimes be a challenge as many feel they can only get their needs met at the expense of another.
When I have time I enjoy gaming but not playing much at the moment. I do however have time to listen to Video Game Music while I'm working which I really enjoy. One of my favorite shows is Game Fuel.
I'm a linux fanboy. Mostly because I am dedicated to the idea of open source. I try to run all my devices on open source software and I try to stay up to date on new open source technologies. Right now I am running Arch Linux on my laptop. Before that I ran Gentoo, which was quite a learning experience. I still use Windows (and a Steam Link) for gaming, but I have been happy to see more an more games coming to Linux.