For this blog, the label of “Writer wannabe” works fine. Of course I’m really a complex multidimensional person who is averse to labels of any kind. (Especially the one in my underwear-- which is chaffing really badly right now.) However, other labels for me might be: bon vivant, pragmatic techno-optimist, swashbuckler, engineer, rapscallion, sex symbol. (This is my fantasy world!) In my best Antonio Bandaras accent I declare “I ahm a mahn of meestery.” Like Michael Jackson, I'm introspective and self defacing … oops, that’s effacing.

What could woo me away from the improbable dream? Commercial writing gigs, AI R&D, system development, or anything else that’s moderately interesting or lucrative. Madam Strabismus, my personal seer, says professional soccer; extending the artistic legacies of DaVinci, Bach, and Ellington; and hiking the A-Trail are currently not in the cards.

To find out more, keep reading! I’m offering a prize to the first person who can tell me my age, sex, ethnicity, hometown, socio-economic status, educational background, family situation, and psychoses? (Please help me!) Am I: (a) A hip 80 year old Punjabi grandmother of 27?, (b) A disembodied AI slowly extending my tendrils into household appliances everywhere, (c) A precocious teen with stubborn acne and an attitude to match?, (d) A middle aged long-haul trucker with a good map of Wi-Fi hotspots?, (e) Other? __________ (be specific!) To borrow a line from In Vitro: Genesis (my incubating novel): “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a god.” Family, friends, and personal seers are not eligible. Void where prohibited.

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Jigglingly Yours,