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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
At 7, I wanted to be captain of a clipper ship. Later that same year they discovered I was blind as a bat, almost. My near blindness had left me very shy and with little self confidence. Add to that the teasing for my Coke bottle glasses, my increased insecurity and the lack of clipper ships, I became the dork I am today.
Sometimes I hope for reincarnation. Other times, things could have been much worse. End result, not too bad, really. 🤓🤓🤓
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LOL! I was a captain of a coastwise oil tanker and deck officer on ocean going tankers. . don't worry, its alot more boring watching the ocean go by than the glory of the title!
I know that certain events in our childhood shape our lives with/without our consciousness. For me it was being exposed and programming an old Digital Equipment computer at age 13, in 1972, and spending Saturday nights either playing sports or programming the computer with binary finger switches. Through high school playing with that computer, I learned the very basics of how a computer worked, so I naturally loved it when PCs were born, and had a macintosh from 1982 onward, and my first Multiplan (the MS predecessor to excel) spreadsheet was tracking lottery ticket numbers to win money so I didn't have to work
That was my journey to geekdom!
as far as sports, my parents didn't believe in a sports career, but learning a trade to fall back upon in hard times. They were depression era traditionalists.