Ok, one more forced move (owner's daughter moved back home).
I've found more opportunities here in Antioch for living.
The new landlord is a better person and understanding so he won't kick me out.
However, being robbed blind, etc. (and the police refusing to do anything) I have lost it.
I have no hope of recovery and being able to work again. I feel like I can but whenever I try to start doing something, I fail miserably.
So, I'm lost, dying inside, and no immediate hope of contributing to the Tech community. I hadn't as yet (ever heard of Tilesoft?! Or E-scan?!). I know software and computers inside and out and am a well trained programmer plus a QA Evangelist frame of mind.
I have talent but my ability to actually do it has been lost, I have no assets left in order to get back to work. I need so much: computer upgrades, "office space" of sorts, etc.

I'm not into BLOGGING. I need local "offline" software, perhaps as a MS Word plug-in, to allow a co-entry of my personal log (.doc file) and a BLOG (different information but entered the same time).

I'm just too busy trying to get my life started after 4 years of homelessness/eviction/stuck on SSI/mental illness from the evictions and anti-disabled sentiment I run into.

Maybe if I'm allowed to stay here 6 months I'll recover enough to get a job, etc. I keep falling apart as most jobs are for "non-disabled" only.

I was reading on my "favorite" company I wished I worked for. I never could get a job and keep it. Anyone remember the following Sonoma County Companies?:
E-scan
Applied Data Systems & it's software TileSoft
Medex Management Systems
and many more?

All gone. And then the last three years of "Hurricane" Jeff Garrett (my brother). It's just a name but it's hard to put what happened to me the last three years in perspective.

Now as of May 1st, 2005 I have laid the foundation of my new life.
Then 8/25/05 I have started building the framework of my new life.

I hope to then get back into software development and software quality assurance that I loved so much. I have no serious focused direction in mind at this time as I have to research the job market. Self-employment seems like a fantasy as consulting requires a customer base and that is one of the hardest for me to do.

A piece at a time. My life builds. Asperger Syndrome is a World. Seen the movie "Autism is a World"? You should. It was too familiar.

Randy Garrett the former UNIX (etc.) Guru.

I'm not into blogging, too much oppurtunity to expose myself!!! ;-) Anyway, wish I had time to transcribe my daily LOG file to this keeping anyone posted on my goings on, can't even keep my home pages updated!