• BIOGRAPHY
  Flavius Afranius Syagrius (floruit 369-382) was a Roman politician and administrator. He was a member of the Gallic-Roman aristocratic family of the Syagrii, which originated in Lyon. In the same years in which Flavius Afranius lived, another Syagrius is attested (he was consul in 381), but it is not always possible to distinguish the career of the two Syagrii.
  
  In 369 he is attested as _notarius;_ in that year the Roman Emperor Valentinian I removed him from his office after a failed military operation, and Afranius dedicated himself to private life.
  
  He continued his career under Emperor Gratian, possibly because of his friendship with the poet Ausonius. Afranius was _magister memoriae_ in 379, when a Theodorus succeeded him. However, that same year he became Proconsul of Africa. Between 18 June 380 and the spring of 382 he is attested as Praetorian prefect of Italy. In 381 he was also _praefectus urbi_ of Rome and Consul in 382.
  
  A daughter with the rank of a _clarissima femina_ (‘most illustrious woman’) and her husband, named as Ferreolus, would have a son Tonantius Ferreolus, Praetorian Prefect of Gaul.

This is the farthest I can trace my family tree back to (so far).

340 AD

I have yet to complete even one week of any Graduate program.

I have several honorary degrees and I have what I call two Place-Saver degrees: an MA in History and a PhD in Philosophy. Place-Saver degree means that I cannot put them on any resume, nor can I use them to obtain employment. They can be verified, but they were, in fact, never “earned” in the traditional sense.

I have a full set (BA, MA, PhD, and DD) from Abide University and all in the venerable field of Metaphysics. I would recommend that anyone interested read Metaphysics by Aristotle.

This is the Short Road to Six Figures:

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Cisco certs: CCST, CCNA, CCNP and beyond.

There are many other certifications available, but people usually start with CompTIA A+.

I have been a mechanic my entire life and the above method appeals to me most.

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For $240 per year (Pro level) you can learn anything having to do with Programming or Coding.

Full-Stack Engineer, Front-End Engineer, Back-End Engineer, Computer Science, IOS Developer, and Data Scientist are the main career paths.

This method appeals to my intellectual side more.

If I had any ambition I would have been a Rock Star a very long time ago.

Looks like I’m stuck with Poetry, Memoir, and Music….

My Liberty University account went dormant so I went ahead and reapplied. After a few days of dinking around my student account seems to have been restored.

MFA in Creative Writing at Liberty University.

MA in Ancient and Classical History from American Public University starts on 6 Jan 2025 with HIST 500 Historical Research Methods.

Gotta start somewhere and maybe I will uptick to a better school soon.

The MA in Humanities (based on the Great Books of the Western World) has been suspended by the American Public University as of 1 Oct 2024.

DAMN

I have owned a 323 BC Greek hand-made bronze coin for about half of my life. It was made to commemorate the passing of Alexander the Great.

Alexander the Great was taught by Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC).

Aristotle was taught by Plato (~427 BC – 348 BC).

Plato was taught by Socrates (~470 BC – 399 BC).

Socrates was the founder of Western Philosophy.