The Wizard

Semi-retired technologist still married to the same woman after 40 years with three children and three grandchildren.

I have learning disabilities including ADD and dyslexia coupled with a Mensa level IQ. Add a strongly aural learning style, and you can understand that I have a strange set of capabilities. Since I have to pronounce the words to myself in my head, my reading is slow. I limit myself almost entirely to non-fiction magazines and books (and TV.) Partly because of the ADD, I rehash thoughts endlessly. Sometimes this leads to new insights and paradigm shifts. Strange capabilities.

It took 11 years of returning to college, but I got my BA in Psychology. In one year of study, I got within one final paper of one final class to get my Master of Administration in Business Administration. I got that paper to the professor and received my MAdmin degree, but it took the insistant help of my mother and mother-in-law to do it. The two of them sat on my couch and refused to go home until the paper was finished. I think they call that intervention (and a lot of love.) After working so hard at an education, I still have always made my living as a maintenance technician, sometimes supervisor, for TV stations and networks.

I even served a couple years in the Army, just pre-Vietman, while I was struggling to get my BA.

The Wizard persona is the result of Halloween. I have had a beard since 1976. My two younger children have never seen me without one. After Halloween one year we happened upon a great Wizard hat. By the next Halloween, I had convinced my wife to make a Wizard robe. My ambition is to make an animated Wizard staff that I could possibly duplicate and sell.

My other alterego is Santa Clause.