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Have worked in IT troubleshooting hardware and software problems for over 30 years. Addicted to coffee and logic. (not necessarily in that order). :-)

Words of wisdom:

Your reach should always exceed your grasp.

If it's easy it's probably not worth doing.

When juggling, if you aren't having a hard time keeping 'em all in the air, you probably don't have enough balls.

Of all the things I've learned over the years the two most important have been

Polya`s approach to problem solving and how to find out what I don't know.

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