#Introduction Hello! I'm a middle-aged, semi-retired SRE/sysadmin and a full-time musician/nerd/gadabout. I'm not great at social media, but @stefano has created a really nice community and I hope to join in and have some fun with the fine folks hanging about here.

I love simple tech and FLOSS and have been lucky to have had a decent career using it. My day jobs have always involved Linux, but my personal use revolves more around FreeBSD as the coherenece and simpleness really appeal to me (and ZFS being a first class citizen is so very, very relaxing for backups/restores).

I have very dear friends from all walks of life and believe that diversity makes life much more interesting and beautiful.

I'm English first language, but speak passable French and Spanish.

I have no kids, but that doesn't stop me from making horrible dad jokes.

Okay, this feels long now. Thanks for having me here!