Torn Down the Middle by James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

Currently, I am torn between two potential lovers: Cyndi(a) Darlene Burks-Burden, age 55, and former Pathways Second Season nurse, Merry B., age 43 or 44. Both are beautiful females in my humble opinion, but they have their own baggage to bring to any male-female relationship. Cyndi is a sometimes-recovering opioid addict, who needs methadone  and Medically Assisted Therapy to reach a state of virtual normality. Merry B. has two big dogs, a Great Dane and a Siberian Huskie, and two male children, one 20 and at home and one 25 living on his own. I just want the opportunity to get in a healthy (non-toxic) relationship with both women, however, I am not go chasing  after either of these females. I think that Merry B. has written me off and said good riddance to me. I don’t know about what Cyndi(a) is doing now.

I am no prize package. I have a mercurial temperament. I am very quick to anger and self-loathing. I appear arrogant sometimes, but this is a defense mechanism for low self-esteem. The psycho-socio-economic programs I have been sentenced to practice have ripped away many of my decent and good qualities. I feel that our town, county, state and country have just used and abused me.

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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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