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  "title": "About",
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<div id="bio" class="vcard h-card p-author author mainBio">
  <div class="mainBio-div">
    <a href="/"
      class="u-url u-uid url icon-container mainBio-div-link mainBio-div-imgLink"
      rel="author"><img
      class="photo u-photo mainBio-div-img"
      alt="It's Eric Woodward's avatar"
      src="/images/eric-8bit.gif"/></a>
    <a class="p-name fn u-url u-uid url mainBio-div-link mainBio-div-textLink"
      href="/">Eric Woodward</a>
    <a class="u-url url mainBio-div-textLink" href="/">
      <!-- This is here to force the hand of your MF2 parser --></a>
  </div>

  <h2 id="aboutme">About Me</h2>

  <ul>
    <li>My name is <a class="p-name fn u-url u-uid url mainBio-div-link"
      href="/">Eric Woodward</a> and this is my website.</li>

    <li class="p-note p-role role">
      I am a <span class="p-category category">geek</span>,
      <span class="p-category category">coder</span>,
      <span class="p-category category">gamer</span>,
      <span class="p-category category">tinkerer</span>,
      <span class="p-category category">husband</span>,
      <span class="p-category category">father</span>,
      <span class="p-category category">server admin</span>,
      <span class="p-category category">web developer</span>,
      and <span class="p-category category">American</span>
      <span class="p-category category">cyborg</span>,
      though not necessarily in that order.
    </li>

    <li>I spend most of my waking hours staring at screens, usually either coding, gaming, or web surfing (or some combination thereof).</li>

    <li>I live with my wife, two kids, four cats, and a dog in a house outside Charlotte, North Carolina.</li>

    <li>
      I've been programming since I was 8, first on an Apple IIe, then on an Atari 130XE, followed by various
      x86 PCs, and finally the World Wide Web itself. Along the way, I've used (and abused) various forms of
      BASIC, C++, LISP, x86 Assembly, PL-SQL, Perl, PHP, Java, and shell scripting, before ultimately settling on
      my current day-to-day usage of JavaScript and HTML.
    </li>

    <li>In January, 2016, my first officially published tabletop game,
      <a href="https://mythicwarsgame.com">Mythic Wars</a>, was released by
      <a href="http://excalibregames.com">Excalibre Games</a>.
    </li>

    <li>
      Since 2018, I've gotten back into RPGs in a big way, running (and playing in) several
      weekly games over the course of the pandemic. Most recently, I started an
      AstralJamming campaign using the
      [advanced Old-School Essentials rules](https://necroticgnome.com/collections/rules).
    </li>

    <li>
      I prefer to be reached via e-mail at
      <a rel="me" class="u-url url u-email" title="&#69;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;"
        href="&#109;&#x61;&#x69;&#108;&#116;&#x6f;&#58;&#x65;&#x72;&#x69;&#x63;&#64;&#x69;&#116;&#x73;&#x65;&#114;&#x69;&#x63;&#119;&#111;&#111;&#x64;&#x77;&#97;&#x72;&#100;&#x2e;&#99;&#111;&#109;">&#69;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;</a>.
      <!--(securely, if you want to use my
      <a rel="pgpkey" type="application/pgp-keys" title="PGP Public Key" href="/files/public.aexpk">PGP Key</a>).-->
      Alternatively, you can grab my
      <a href="http://h2vx.com/vcf/https%3A//itsericwoodward.com">vCard</a> and add me to your address book.
    </li>
    <li>
      I host a collection of
      <a rel="me authn" class="u-url url" href="https://git.itsericwoodward.com/eric/">git repos</a>
      (where I keep my code).
    </li>
    <li>
      I am sporadically active on various corporate social media silos, and have accounts on
      <a rel="me" class="u-url url" title="itsericwoodward on LinkedIn"
        href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsericwoodward">LinkedIn</a>,
      <a rel="me authn" class="u-url url" title="ItsEricWoodward on GitHub"
        href="https://github.com/ItsEricWoodward">GitHub</a>, and
      <a rel="me" class="u-url url" title="EricPlaysGames on BoardGameGeek"
        href="https://boardgamegeek.com/user/ericplaysgames">BoardGameGeek</a>.
    </li>
  </ul>

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  <h2>About This Site</h2>

  <p>
    This site is powered by <a href="https://nodejs.org/">Node</a>,
    <a href="https://nginx.org/">nginx</a>,
    <a href="https://vscodium.com/">VSCodium</a>, 
    <a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/programming-427722/">this image from EMIL Ivanov at PEXELS</a>,
    <a href="https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Exo+2">the Exo 2 font</a>, 
    <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/">a Raspberry Pi 4</a>, and
    <a rel="self" href="#aboutme">a truly massive ego</a>.
  </p>

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