User:GWMorris

Hey, I guess this is sort of like your own personal Wiki!

For the record, I'm a male born in '61, and occasionally I visit this site to either find or add to information.

I'm engaged to a woman who has Multiple Sclerosis and am her personal caregiver the majority of the time. I DO try to occasionally make a little money programming or building miniature objects, just anything that will help and I don't always have to file any taxes for it. Not that I'm against taxes, I just think that if I make only a few hundred dollars in a year, why should I have to pay any taxes on that? How about the people that make hundreds of THOUSANDS per year, or much more? Why not take a BIG chunk of theirs and let the rest of us live a decent life without losing 30 - 40 percent of our pitiful earnings? Anyway, we live off of her SSI disability and since I have a bad back, it's almost impossible to find much (if anything) in the way of work that I can do here in the home while taking care of her. On occasion though, I do find something that I can do, as it's almost necessary these days. Thankfully, her brother bought us a home to live in, all we have to do is pay taxes and rent for the lot. Since she has MS, she cannot function well at all, and even worse when it is hot, so her brother also paid for us some air conditioners. Without him, I really don't know where we would be, and he could barely afford to do that, but did anyway. I wish I had siblings like that!

Aside from all that, though, I like to program and have MANY tools to do so. Visual Studio (the latest), Delphi (also the latest), Java, etc. and can use all of them pretty good. Those were also a gift from someone, to allow me to make programs and sell them or whatever. I have the full version of Office as well, three different versions in fact, that I can use too, so any Office development can be done as needed.

I have a good talent for a lot of things, computers being one. I am also quite a guitar player too. Since '76, I've been playing, learning, playing, and getting very good in the process. I astound myself at times, and even my father (who is 70 at the time of this writing) was amazed and asked me how I got so good! He, himself a decent musician, having played with numerous local bands over the years, was amazed that I had gotten to be that proficient on the guitar. I taught myself, and even have written a few tunes (though I can't sing much for the life of me, I know where the notes are but my voice doesn't want to cooperate!). I learned first on the piano, which my father bought when I was six. He bought lessons for me, and they went pretty good at first. Then, I started getting bored with the lesson plan and went on through the book (which I evidently wasn't supposed to do!), much to the dismay of my "teacher". Even that young, I thought she would be thrilled that I had made all that progress without her around, but later it became clear to me that she really didn't care that much if I learned piano or not, as long as she got PAID! Bummer.

Well, I'll continue to update as things happen, and good day!