I was running 5 miles early AM, Lunch then Dinner... I did a 5 mile loop 3 times a day...

It was during the downturn, and I was at home 18 months playing games, traveling, and running... I was 25 years old, had been working as an IT manager in SV for ~6 years at that point.

(started at 17 at an Architecture firm as a drafter, and worked up from there)

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I had a party that summer of ~2001/2002 (cant recall if 911 was before or not - but 75 people came to the BBQ... like 15 had jobs... (ALL devs and Tech (some jobs that dont really exist anymore (SGI Devs, MIPS procs devs, SUNSPARC/SUN devs... A lot of hardware people)