I’m mythWizard. I am the Storyteller and this is my Library.
The username “mythWizard” comes from my high school classical mythology class. I dove headlong into the textbook and read the whole thing within the first few weeks of the course. I had also already read Percy Jackson, in fact, I had read the whole series up to that point. Needless to say, I was over-prepared for that class and so I was acing the quizzes, tests, assignments, and Quizlets. I decided midway through the class that I should create an account on Quizlet so that I could have my score properly attributed to me since I was battling another student in my class for the top of the leaderboards. One friend made an off-hand comment that “You are like a myth wizard”. That combined with my attempts at self-teaching programming plus Pesterchum handles resulted in the username “mythWizard”.
Now to the present:
I’m a software developer located in the Shenandoah Valley. I joined them while on a leave of abscence from my M.S./Ph.D. program and ultimately ended up staying there, leaving academia behind entirely.
I live with my fiancée, KP, and our two dogs, Korra and Kasper. She and I are vegan, the dogs are not.
We are also proud foster parents of two little boys, lovingly nicknamed Little Man and Little Guy.
By night, I stream on Twitch (although I am on hiatus while we transition into foster parenthood), post VoDs on YouTube, and make video games. I also thoroughly enjoy homebrewing beer, brewing coffee (espresso, French press, cold brew), learning new programming languages and natural languages (particularly German), over-engineering my home network, and reading just about anything I can get my hands on. At home, I do most of the cooking, since I find it relaxing and fulfilling. I’m attempting to recreate foods I find in video games and books. My current projects are the Nutrient Block and Mek. I’ll probably post them in Projects or Posts when I get it figured out.
I’m also interested in crafting a more sustainable lifestyle for myself. I try to engage in more low waste tendencies, bringing bags to the store, recycling, composting, eating everytihing we buy from the store. I commute to and from work on my e-bike and run as many errands on it as I can, though I need to upgrade my kit for it. My backpack can only hold so much. Lately, I’ve found myself exploring as much of Solarpunk art, literature, and video(game) content as I can.