Hello World

For a while now, I've been wanting to create a space where I can share my thoughts, ideas, rants, and anything else that may come to mind.

Yes, I started a blog.  

I’ve got projects I want to work on, and I want to share updates on those projects as well. Some are D&D related, some are security related, and some aren’t related to anything specific at all. Well that makes no sense… everything’s related to something, isn’t it?

So I guess that’s what will be happening here. I may just type a string on consciousness that may not be spelled correctly, or perhaps I will have a well thought out document that is carefully prepared and edited before it gets posted here. Only time will tell how this turns out, but what matters is that it will have content and I will enjoy doing it.

Hello, world  

So, hey everyone. I’m Brian.

At the time of this writing, I’m 40 years old and live in the southeastern US where it’s hot and humid. I’ve been working in IT for about 15ish years now and for the past 7-8 years, I’ve been focused mainly on cyber security. Before that, I did a good mix of server and network administration with a healthy dose of Exchange (email) admin in there as well. After working in cyber security operations for a number of years, I decided to take a break and focus more on creating content and teaching instead, so now I’m a defensive engineering instructor with INE.

In my free time, I enjoy playing Dungeons & Dragons - and by playing, I mean mostly DMing (running) the games. I’ve been working on creating my own world and adventure to go along with it, but that is a slow and complicated process - but enjoyable. I run a weekly game on Thursday nights that has been going for a little over a year now, and getting ready to start playing in a new weekly game in the next few weeks, too. We used to stream the Thursday game on Twitch, but for various reasons stopped doing that. We may start back up sometime though, who knows? I’m working on turning the D&D thing into a side hustle, but still working out the details of that - including some content on YouTube 

So that’s me in a nutshell (“Help, help. I’m in a nutshell”). I’m sure there will be more little tidbits that come out over the next (insert arbitrary time period here).

In the words of Matt Collville  - Peace. Out.