Ever searching for my place in the universe

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I'm happily married guy and father that's pushing 40. I work, I travel when I can. I write and I barbecue. Those are the only real hobbies I have anymore.

 

I've had a few jobs in my past, I've worked retail, I've cooked and drove truck. During my cooking phase I wasted some time and even went to the Culinary Institute of America. Looking back, I don't know why. I've forgotten more things about cooking and running a restaurant than more people will ever really know.

 

Sometime ago I discovered Grand Sumo on YouTube thanks to Jason Sumo and his previous channel that has since been wiped from YouTube. I fell in love. The power and discipline of these men were amazing. On top of that, they looked kind of like I did. I didn't realize at the time what a deep dive that would take.

 

Sometime more recently thanks to Will Wight, Tao Wong, and Travis Baldree, I discovered a love for progression-fantasy, and all the books that word covers. Which led me to discovering the religions and ideologies that those came from; buddhism and daoism. Mind you, I've been called buddha online long before I ever knew about any of this stuff, really. I just had unimaginative friends, am fat, and liked my belly rubbed. 

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Hold on, before that... I was a new teenager rummaging around the library and found A Wizard of Earthsea. That's where my love for reading began, this little purple book with a wizard holding a staff in front of a big castle. From that, the delusion that people might want to read the words I write, which led us here.

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Then, with barbecue, it seems like once every guy over the age of 30 decides to get really invested into either World War 2 History, or smoking meat. I chose the later, war was never much of an interest to me in my adult life. Wouldn't be very buddha of me if it was, right?

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As for truck driving, well, besides cooking I don't really have any skills. I wanted / needed to make more money and I was much too lazy to keep slogging in kitchens. After I stopped working in kitchens I went back to retail and ended up in CDL school. I'm much happier now, and I work for what might be the largest private fleet in the world, so that's nice.

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Anyway, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to put here but these are the ABC's of me, and these are my stories...

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P.S. I swear I'm not a weeb, I'm really not. I don't really get into Anime and I don't walk around with a katana and a fedora. (flatcaps are cool though, right? RIGHT?!)

This is all because of my love for Sumo, Xianxia, and Ramen, and my internet persona.