About WhyTheAlgarve

**Edit Dec 31, 2024: It's been three years since I wrote the below. Clearly, an update is overdue. Please stand by. **

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Briefly, I'm a 53 year-old husband of one, father of two, living in Vancouver, BC, (burnaby, really) currently a stay at home Dad, worked for over twenty years as a scenic artist/painter, enamoured with Portugal for a long list of reasons, two years in recovery as of Dec 24, 2021 (hey, Bill!), and utterly energized by a personal creative renaissance that motivates me to start my day around 4 a.m. so that I can get as much as time working with images as possible. Of course, being up that early also ensures I am awake no matter what time our youngest starts banging on the wall when he wakes up. Two birds.

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There are a number of posts that discuss my personal life, none more so than Too Much Information.

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Other posts that talk about this site and me:

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- The Plan and Design Developments

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- Turning a Corner: The Beneficial Effects of Relentless Jolliness

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- About Me and this Site

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- On a Personal Note

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- Off Topic - What I Do

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- My Other Distraction

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- More Off-Topic: My Weekend

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That's our oldest son, Alex, btw, pictured here as a toddler Evil Genius.