Mid-40's, and many lessons learned by paying attention to those who paved the way ahead of me. Don't get me wrong, I'm a hard worker with a reputation for keeping my promises in an industry that is infamous for the opposite (manufacturing, without getting too deep into my role in that sector for the sake of keeping this brief), so I can't really complain about my wages or the recognition I have gotten in the past. But it's still just a job. My real life is my family, my hobbies and my adventures. When strangers ask me what I "do," I generally like to reply with those things rather than talking about work.

As for the email, it was part of a now-dead idea that grew out of boredom one evening while chatting with some old computer friends, and definitely involved different sounding farts. Never really got past a few lines of code, but I have been thinking about using the domain for a cranky old git blog or something.