Best Christmas Ever, December 25, 2012 by James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

The Christmas of 2012 was the best holiday season of my life. Cyndi(a) Darlene Burks-Burden, Mister Buddy Princeton, and I were still living at my parent’s last house at 601 Hill Street, LaGrange, Georgia 30241, 1-706-884-7115. I had lived in that house since either 1960 or 1961 except for about four years away in Atlanta and Columbus. I had many exciting and fun holidays at that now 99-year-old house; however, Christmas 2012 was the best of all my 66 years. Mister  Buddy Princeton is an AKC registered Willoughby Chinese pug (Canis familiaris) who was whelped on Sunday, May 27, 2012. Cyndi and I came up with name Mister Buddy Princeton because I objected to Prince Buddy Princeton due to the fact, I wants Buddy to be a pug of the people and not despised royalty. I was responsible for the Mister part, we both agreed on Buddy, and Cyndi(a) came up with Princeton in honor of the last place that the phenomenal and singular Albert Einstein taught and worked. Cyndi(a) was on methadone, Medically Assisted Therapy,  which I was more than happy to purchase that necessary and sufficient medication for her at a cost of $10 – $12 USD per day. Mister Buddy Princeton was the child that Cyndi(a) and I could not physically conceive. Heck Cyndi(a) had lived with me off and on since 2010 and I did not even care to have sexual relations with her since I then had Hepatitis-C and other mitigating factors. That Christmas was all about Buddy. We had an exquisite Christmas tree and nice decorations on our side porch so Buddy would have a beautiful first Christmas. Unfortunately, the bliss of that Christmas could not last since I was running out of financial resources and my older sisters, Susan Williams Harrison, and Nancy Lord Williams Fabbri wanted to sell the house and get Cyndi(a) out of my life altogether. I will reiterate that depressing set of events later in a true downer post. One thing you can say for me, I am loyal to my current only three living loves, two human females, and one canine male. It is indeed bad that Cyndi(a) accidentally lost all the Christmas 2012 pictures of Buddy opening his presents.

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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