Who am I? - by Brian Gregory

Me with Penny (Penny is the cat, I'm the human) Photo taken in December 2008

I was born on Friday 13th January 1961. Yes, Friday 13th!!

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1995.
I strongly suspect I that I actually had it for as long as 15 to 20 years before I was diagnosed which I think may partly explain some of the other problems I have had including depression, low self esteem, shyness, social phobia, Asperger syndrome (officially diagnosed in October 2010), and my somewhat obsessive love/hate relationship with my gadgets and computers.

Published email address:

Location:

Reading,
Berkshire.
England.

Occupation (before COVID-19):

Well, I was a sort of struggling freelance computer programmer and electronics designer.
"So-so electronic and microprocessor designs at a so-so price"
I'm not doing much except voluntary work now though.
As a volunteer I am webmaster for Compass Recovery College,
help look after the computers in a computer room for the patients at Prospect Park Hospital
and at the Earley Crescent Resource Centre I help look after computers that are used for teaching and for public use.

Likes (in no particular order):

• My friends.
• Cats & kittens.
• Pretty girls.
• My brother and his family.
• Well behaved children.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and other books by Douglas Adams.
• The Beatles, The Hollies and other music from the sixties.
• The Simpsons especially Lisa.
• Friends, Frasier, The IT Crowd, The Big Bang Theory and similar funny TV shows.
• Just a Minute, The News Quiz, Dead Ringers, The Goons and many other comedies on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra.
• Christmas pudding.
• Hugs and cuddles.
• Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang.
• Good wines especially reds.
• Plain chocolate.
• Powerful computers.
• Fifty pound notes.
• Dilbert.
• MTV's Daria.
• Cute Japanese manga style animation especially Studio Ghibli and similar.

Dislikes (also in no particular order):

• Chewing gum, both underfoot and in people's mouths being chewed.
• Smokers who do it near me (friends is okay but not strangers).
• Cyclists who illegally cycle on the pavement or in pedestrian areas or do other idiotic things near me.
• The police who do nothing about the totally out of control cyclists round here.
• Body piercing, especially eyebrows.
• Spitting.
• Shitty lowlife that put their feet up on the seats on public transport.
• Computer games that set the volume to maximum when you run them.
• PLT devices and plasma TVs  that splatter all over the HF bands.
• The authorities that deliberately ignore the fact that PLT devices break CE regulations.
• Guys who always sit with their legs wide open.
• Having to write letters.
• Heart FM and BBC Radio 1 because they're so naff.
• Unreliable, bloated and/or difficult to use software. (Microsoft take note).

Favourite Quote:

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising six weeks.
- Robert Southey.

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