Musings on IT and programming

It's has been a while, but life has a strange way of showing you the path ahead.  I'm in a very fortunate phase right now where I'm able to see how all that has happened before either by me being proactive, others influencing my choices or life just making it very difficult to take different paths. All has converged in my current state where I'm grateful for my family, my job and myself foremost.  It has been a while since I've felt this way; in fact this feels really strange as I've been on a good spot through all my life but being aware of it and grateful is something that I find eerie.  The world has changed many times on me, school switches, switching my sport activities from high intensity to long distance and from being top of country to last of peloton, jobs in many industries and roles though all have been Software related, family both by blood and by choice also have changed, close ones are not longer here and are missed a lot, new ones have...