While I left the Bird Site back when the megalomanic announced he was buying it, I only recently found Mastodon. The one thing I miss is the number of authors I could follow; I am hoping many of them make the move soon!
I am a Chicago native, now living in MD by way of MA, NY, NJ, and VA. I have worked both in IT and banking, sometimes both at the same time! Now I mostly just do volunteer work on websites for Clubs I belong to.