Al Green

Technical Writer

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I was born at a young age and pretty much grew up as normally as you can in a small town on the coast of Washington State. I actually knew where Forks was before the vampires showed up. I did 24 years in the Air Force mostly in fighter aircraft maintenance with a side trip for 5 years as a maintenance instructor. I was able to pick up a BS in Computer and Information Science and a MS in Digital Forensics and Cyber Investigation along the way.

Besides Washington State I've lived in Colorado, Florida, Idaho, South Korea,and New Mexico before landing in Texas. They all had good and bad aspects and I enjoyed living in all of them.

I currently work as a technical author, so if you've ever had problems with those horrible instruction manuals that come with things you buy and have to assemble in some way........it wasn't me.  I can say from experience that something that makes perfect sense to me as I write it can in reality make no sense to anyone else.

I enjoy messing around with computers and seeing what I can do with them, I always wanted to have my own website so I figured I would throw one together just to see how all of it works and have a good time doing it.

As usual, life seems to interfere with the stuff I want to do, I'm currently working on trying to insulate and sheet rock my shed so everything in it will quit rusting. 2024 update: Precisely nothing has happened with the shed. Except I moved a lot of stuff out of it and into storage and moved non-rusting plastic stuff into the shed. Still planning on insulation and sheet rock, maybe this Winter.

Still plugging away on the guitar and added a bass guitar and a 5 string banjo to my collection just to keep things interesting and different. After so many years of playing guitar I never knew the notes on a bass clef were different than on a treble clef. It totally makes sense but I get to learn how to read music all over again so I can play the bass.  I love a challenge!

Below is a video of my Dad and his brother Richard (He was Uncle Dick to us) talking about how they rode a freight train from Kansas to Washington in the 1930's and some of their adventures after they got there. I miss them both, especially their wisdom and great sense of humor.