astonysh
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | Systems Analyst |
| Location | Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany |
| Introduction | Getting old, getting sadder, heavily wrapped in reality, widely travelled, linguist (will undertake German or French or Dutch to English translation work, for a fee (!) - enquire if interested), mathematically gifted, open-minded. I have lived in 6 countries, worked in 7, and married someone from an eighth (so I understand how the world works). Worked as an IT specialist for 28 years and still want to get back to working full-time in IT. Unrepentant tolerant atheist (believe what you want as long as you do harm to nobody else, I reserve the right to dismiss all beliefs as superstitious nonsense with no basis in reality). Very international, cosmopolitan, deeply intellectual, usually reasonable and unemotional, if very shy. Life-long non-smoker, drink wine or beer occasionally. Tired of being broke, tired of ridiculous economic policies based on debt, tired of false promises of better times coming. Heart attack survivor. Happy to be living in my adopted country (became a naturalised citizen in 2019, my response to the Brexit nonsense) - there is nowhere that I have seen that is better, even if I dislike some of the politicians here. |
| Interests | Politics (particularly trying to persuade the polemicists to get real and look at the facts for once), sport, travel, learning languages, bridge, writing |
| Favorite Movies | Goodbye Lenin, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Roaring Twenties |
| Favorite Music | Vintage Rock, Doo-wop |
| Favorite Books | Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories (though the later ones are not as good as the others), detective novels by Dorothy L.Sayers, Raymond Chandler and Dalshiel Hammett. Zola's Rougon-Macquart series). |