About my life
A lot of my life has absolutely nothing to do with a compiler. Law enforcement, marching band, nature, photography, writing, long drives, and the people I actually want to spend time around all matter just as much.
What I care about
Law enforcement is my career. I work in LE while also pursuing a career in low-level development, so a lot of my life lives somewhere between patrol work and a debugger. I am also a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE), which means impaired-driving enforcement, physiology, evaluations, and the investigative side of traffic work are things I spend real time around.
Marching band was a huge part of my life, and I ended up serving as drum major my senior year. I liked the performance side of it, but I also liked the responsibility that came with leading people, keeping everything moving, and helping turn months of work into something that actually looked and sounded right on the field.
I have a soft spot for the mountains in Northeast Georgia. The roads, overlooks, forests, weather, and just being up there are some of my favorite ways to get away from screens for a while. Give me a long drive through the North Georgia mountains and I am probably happy.
I like catching things the way they felt, not just the way they technically looked. Cars, landscapes, people, night scenes, weather, whatever has enough atmosphere to make me stop for a second.
I write because sometimes a thought makes more sense once I force it into words. Sometimes it comes out good. Sometimes it turns into writing slop worse than AI. Both happen.
A lot of the best parts of my life have nothing to do with a repository. I like hanging out, driving around, talking about dumb shit, and spending time with people I genuinely enjoy being around.
Where I'm headed
Law enforcement is the career I am in today, and low-level development is the career I am actively working toward. I do not really try to force the two into the same box. They are just two parts of my life that I take seriously.
One gives me real-world responsibility, people, pressure, and problems that do not care whether the timing is convenient. The other is where I get to obsess over firmware, assembly, rendering, networking, memory, and all the machinery underneath software.
I like having both. One keeps me grounded in the real world. The other gives me a place to build.
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