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Good Morning

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It's a bright new day in 2017, and I've finally decided to host some public record of my life to preserve what little scraps of me survive after my death (that is if my consciousness isn't uploaded to data center by then). Slight morbidity aside, my ambitions for world domination are intensifying daily as I sit in my chair, mumbling to myself about ideas only a few in a hundred mile radius would even care about or understand.

Current State of Affairs

Without exposing any bank account-vital security question information, I'll discuss the most easily recognizable parts of my life:
  • I live in Converse, TX, a small town of around 20,000 whose only job is to contribute to the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area; basically, my municipality exists to act as a statistic.
  • I attend Samuel Clemens High School as a sophomore who can't engage in many if any extracurricular events because of the following reason.
  • During evenings, I attend my father's (master's) taekwondo school as the class leader.
  • Prolonged until my bed time, I make up for my lack of extracurricular activities by inefficiently programming the pieces of a personal companion I can talk to when I'm lonely (which I am frequently)

Yes, it's almost noon on a Tuesday; however, today's a student holiday in the SCUCISD. Although, I yearn for some more structured learning after two weeks of a lack of a bit of self-discipline.
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Location: Converse, TX, USA

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