AI takes your query and performs hundreds of millions of evaluations within milliseconds of every word you write, or ask, against the massive amount of human knowledge that it already knows, which is increasing exponentially every millisecond.

I started my computer journey in 1969 at the old Merritt College on Grove St in Oakland, CA. I took the only computer courses they offered, which involved antiquated sorting equipment, with wires!

For the next couple years I expanded my knowledge base, and just when I was getting ready to graduate with an AA degree in computer science, IBM released the System 3, Mod 10. It was a revolutionary mini-computer aimed at small businesses, and they developed a language called RPG, which stood for, of all things, Report Program Generator. But they had nobody available to write software for their business clients.

Then Merritt College purchased one as I was ready to graduate. I was running the lab at that time, I said the hell with graduation, and stayed on for one more year.

I mastered that machine. I learned RPG as it evolved into an amazing computer language, I developed software that ran the schools accounting, then I graduated with a three year AA degree.

As I hit the SF Bay Area market I landed at a medical billing outfit, where a brilliant woman taught me Level Breaks in Cobol. I transferred that technique into RPG and my career took off as a Sys 3 consultant across the Bay Area.

I had amazing adventures through the seventies that would fill a book. When the early eighties arrived I embraced the new IBM PC and another decade of computer madness ensued.

Now I sit on a porch soaking up the Florida sun, with a slight headache that never goes away, a vibrating body, and legs that are giving out on me. I've got a neurology appointment tomorrow and maybe I can find out what's happening.

Yesterday the new dog in the house was standing tall behind the folding fence when a gang of teenaged punks came running through the neighborhood. They grabbed the electric bike that was sitting next door and tried to take off with it, but when they saw big Molly they dumped it out front and split.