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[A HERETIC I AM]

34. Fine. OK...Fine, dammit.

Currently 1/3rd of the way around my 56th lap around Sol (makes me 55), Atheist liberal schmuck.

Complete underachiever. I've found that I am almost always smarter than the people I have worked for, and because I am a bit of a dickhead, somehow that comes through! That is to say, the smaller companies and the jobs that I have loved have not ended well because the boss saw it too, and no one likes a smart ass, knowitall.

Ah well.

I'm an over the road trucker. I've driven a truck in all the lower 48 except Vermont (Hey...I just never had to go there as a trucker, but I have been there as a youngster!) and 3 Canadian Provinces and have driven all but about 1500 miles of the US Interstate system. By now I have over 2 million miles accident free. Visited Alaska as an infant via stopover on the way to Saipan and have been to 2 Hawaiian islands. I've been a truck driver for most of the last 27 years, with a brief stint as a Stock Broker/Financial Advisor (duly licensed, though the licenses have since expired) for 3 years perfectly timed for the biggest bear market in 70 years! Needless to say, I didn't last long, but I learned a shitload. Got a question about how Mutual funds work? I'm your Atheist. I spent 13 of the 25 years I've been in the profession in the Motorsports industry, driving 'Brand Awareness' displays and technical support vehicles involved in IndyCar, NASCAR, IMSA, NHRA and Sports Car racing. Those gigs took me to Canada twice a year on average, Australia 4 times, England 5 times and coast to coast several dozen times. I spent 6 consecutive years in the 90's at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the month of May, as a credentialed participant in the Indy 500. I wear an Indy 500 winning team ring on my right hand (I should have 5, but that's another story). I managed well over 1500 single and multi-day displays tied to just about every major racing event in the US. Those were my "Good Old Days". If I had spent all those years driving commercially I would have well over 3 million miles under my belt by now. I've hauled cars on open-rack transporters for ten years and 'lift-gate' transporters for a further 3. I've hauled everything from a Kia Sephia to a multi-million dollar factory concept vehicle/prototype as well as vintage, exotics, race cars, show cars and your average family car. Most of my experience is with new cars, however. Got a question about shipping a car? I'm your Atheist. I currently haul US Mail and am a Teamster.

My dad was CIA and as such, we moved around a fair amount when I was younger. Averaged a move every 2 years until I was 15. The longest time I ever lived in one place was 5 years until I was in Miami for 6, after dad retired in 74.

Born in Arlington, VA, lived in Saipan, in the Marianna's Islands, Outside DC in Falls Church, VA., Miami, FL. (moved within 30 days of Kennedy getting shot), Athens, Greece, Outside DC in Gaithersburg, MD, Alice Springs Australia and back to Miami, where I graduated HS in 77

Religious skeptic all my life, but raised in an Episcopalian family, baptized and confirmed 11 years later in the National Cathedral in Washington DC. I realized the story of Noah was bollocks when I was about 8 or so, about the time I was told Santa wasn't real, and it was all downhill from there! I started refusing to go to church when I was a senior in HS. LOTS of arguments with dad in those days.

Claimed the Atheist moniker only about 17 years ago, after a long and desperate search for truth in the Christan faith. There isn't any, I came to realize, nor in any of the Abrahamic faiths. A bullshit story writ large, but still a bullshit story.

Never married, though I came close 3 times. Luckily however, as I probably would have been divorced 3 times by now as well. No kids.

I never attended college but I am well read and have a fine command of the English language. I am a member of an industry overwhelmingly populate by morons, so it tries my patience on a daily basis. I just don't suffer idiots too well.

I don't post that much in this forum or the Religion forum because...well....I've had all the arguments before and I find them tedious anymore. They think I'm wrong, I KNOW they're wrong and that's as far as I care to take it. Occasionally I'll put up something in Religion, but it isn't often. I just can't be bothered, really. They bore the shit out of me. I find most of those people unoriginal and banal.

Oh yeah...I'm an asshole, too.