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Fortunatus S. Marchbanks' Quotidian Minutiae
The pronouncements of a middle-aged Curmudgeon
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Created on 2009-05-02 19:26:34 (#220953), last updated 2019-07-06 (340 weeks ago)
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I’m a specialized technician (explaining exactly what I do would be both tedious and long), employed by an Enormous Computer Company, hereafter called the Empire. I also moonlight at a local ethnic gift shop, known here as the Land of Faerie. At one time or another, I’ve done or been a son, husband, father, lover, friend . . . bureaucrat, bassist, photographer, writer, bus driver, revenuer, usher, drummer, secretary, librarian’s assistant, disk jockey, book scout, movie projectionist, cemetery researcher, roadie, book dealer, yard-saler, jackleg home DIYer . . . . I’ve a BA in English and a couple of geeky certifications to hang on the wall, and a huge miscellany of information on a preposterous number of subjects with which I come out at random, to the astonishment and occasional edification of my acquaintance. I enjoy being mildly eccentric and curmudgeonly, I love traditional and Celtic music, and am a storyteller by disposition. I’m a Meyers-Briggs ISTJ, although I keep a few roles available that I can assume if I need to get myself through a public event. I amuse myself by reading mysteries, some mainstream fiction, some fantasy, biography and history; haunt yard sales for bargains which I re-sell on eBay; work on my home and garden; do counted cross-stitch; collect Texana; brew my own beer; do experimental cookery. I’m not an outdoors-ish person because of various physical conditions which make the outdoors a bad idea. I gave up smoking anything many years ago. I will drink, but won’t tolerate recreational drugs in my immediate vicinity. Whatever you do that way, do it away from me. My only external body mods are two sets of holes in my ears.
Oh, and I don’t have a <pratchett>Great Big Tonker.</pratchett>
Oh, and I don’t have a <pratchett>Great Big Tonker.</pratchett>
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