Shazam! From ? to member of the secret society

[pony up]

Thank you for the invitation to the fun. My name is Dennis, my user name is Up and the bewildered expression on my face is natural. I have looked like this since age 3 when I first recognized that I had no idea what was happening. I have had a lot of experience, too much of it painful and repeated. Most of what I have learned I have forgotten although I do remember how much those forgotten lessons hurt. My scholastic career was all about sports and girls and social promotion. USMC more of the same. Promotions to positions where I was less of
a threat to the fitness reports of my various commanding officers. I had a 50/50 business career. Fifty percent about working hard and 50% about working the angles. I have continued the latter 50% into retirement and have been perfecting a fine edge onto doing nothing of much consequence other than spoiling myself, my wife and our 2 grandbabies. I like firearms, fast cars, love flying but am strictly commercial anymore. It is heartening that I can still get in and out of trouble at 74.