FlexRex: Fictional Blogger

The principle for Day #12 on the 101-day book report says: "Make no apologies for being who you are."

I remember my first real identity crisis. After 12 years at Cray and then SGI, I was on a sabbatical when my manager left me a voicemail informing me that I had been laid off.

You know, it is easy to accept the idea that you are not your job. But when you lose it after such a long time, you're like a vampire with no reflection.

And then one day, after the crisis had long passed, I got time to try to reverse engineer the circumstances that brought me to the current moment. I began to realize that, as a kid, I had no idea what Popeye was talking about with, "I am what I am and that's all that I am."

But then, who could? I mean, after all, what child knows what he is not?