You have had the courage to say rather difficult things in the past that I agree with.But once you dug out your"My Life is a Triumph of the Will and I Have Overcome and They Should Too" shibboleth, yes, I exposed the monstrous flaw in your pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps worldview and other like it, your certainty that free will and innate strength of character together have put you in the driver's seat of your own life.

In courts, facts triumph over opinion.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt

Google "youtube triumph of the nerds" for the personal computer episodes and "youtube Nerds_2.0.1" for the Internet episodes.When I was wrapping up my bachelors degree and preparing to get my masters on the East coast, I got a fellowship offer for a work-study masters degree program on the West coast.

But celebrate your small triumphs.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt

I look forward to sharing my journey and reading about all of your triumphs and even mistakes along the way.

Awesome.Full of great advice and great stories or woe and triumph 

I work for a company called Triumph Realty.

It's a small triumph for the honest taxpayer.