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• Enterprise Architecture: Leading team initiatives at TIM Technologies, deep in software architecture planning, system integrations, and optimizing enterprise infrastructure.
• Home Lab Maintenance: Fine-tuning my local server stack. After a recent round of updates to my Lenovo infrastructure and some routine configuration, the home environment is stable, quiet, and running smoothly.
• Website Refinement: Enjoying the new layout changes after giving this site its first major structural overhaul in 17 years. Keeping things light, fast, and highly scannable.

• Sci-Fi & Adaptations: Still riding the high from Project Hail Mary, Disclosure Day, and revisiting the classics. Currently on a bit of a retro sci-fi kick, appreciating the tight pacing of older cinematic storytelling (re-watching Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) recently had me tensing up during the Genesis countdown).
• Technical Manuals: Working my way through the classic HP-41CX owner's manuals having fun reminiscing my time with my university calculator on the SwissMicros DM41X while the HP-41CX waits for repairs.
• Reading - Working my way through the Jack Ryan universe interspersed with Robert A. Heinlein novels.

• Current Project: Trying not to inadvertently format any more 5.25" floppy disks in my dreams. Though visiting Luxembourg in my dreams is not uncommon.
• Living in the CBD: My favorite routine is walking east along the Yarra toward the Swan Street bridge — much nicer than heading toward the casino. I'd love some company to wander with, unpack everything and nothing, or just set up a picnic and watch the world go by.
• A pub or two: A quiet read of the Kindle accompanied by a Balter XPA at Fortress Melbourne or Garden State Hotel.
• Standard quirk: Quietly singing to myself when happy, and randomly demonstrating my ability to pat my head and rub my tummy with either hand, in either direction.
• The ideal evening: Loving a lively night out with close friends, but acknowledging that my absolute favorite after-party is a couch, and a quiet wind down.
• Hoping to meet someone: Actively looking for a partner with a great sense of humor and an interesting level of silliness to explore Melbourne and beyond together. If a casual drink and talking about happy, random things leads to something special, that would be all kinds of nice.