Who Am I? I'm Batman.

But really…

My full name is Richard Timothy Cunningham, but I prefer to be called "RT". My wife's name is Josephine. My older son is Joseph and my younger son is Jonathan. I am a retired U.S. Marine. My date of birth is 11/28/1960. I, Josie, and Jon live in the Philippines.

This page is divided into three parts:

My Personal History
My Professional History
My Online History

My Personal History:

I grew up in a 4-bedroom, one-bath house with parents and eight other siblings (four brothers and four sisters) up until I was about 13 years-old. (Needless to say, the bathroom was almost always occupied.) The house is still owned by my parents in Coolidge, Arizona, USA (which, by the way, is a mere 70 miles from where I ended up in Phoenix, Arizona, USA).

I spent the next almost four years living in Hawaii with ever-dwindling amounts of siblings (they kept heading back to the mainland) in a smaller 3-bedroom, one-bath house. (I vowed to have a bigger house for my own family when the time came.) After returning to the mainland myself, I finished my senior year of high school and then headed off to the military, not really looking back.

I met my wife while deployed to the Philippines with one of my units back in the early eighties. She then spent more than 13 years with me at various locations within the U.S. and Japan. Without her support, I probably would've left the military earlier than I did.

I retired after 20 years in the military in 1998 and worked at three different jobs before deciding it was time to retire for good. My military pension would suffice for living in the Philippines. My pension and even social security benefits (when I turn 67) would not be enough to retire in the U.S.

From June 1994 to March 2006, I lived in a 4-bedroom, 3-bath house. During the first 10 years of that, my parents-in-law lived with us. My father-in-law died in a car accident in 2003 and my mother-in-law subsequently moved back to the Philippines to join the rest of her family there. My younger son went with her, so that he could get started with college. My older son had spent three years in the military (one of those years was in Iraq), returned and then moved out into his own apartment.

I and my wife arrived in the Philippines in April 2006 with enough money from the equity of our home sale to buy a home in the Philippines. After a month of not finding a decent home at a decent price, we decided to have one built. The house itself was finished in September 2006.

Here's a photo of me, my wife, and my younger son taken while we were in the Batangas province on May 31, 2006:

My Professional History:

Please understand that I don't remember everything, and I don't care to. I think age is a blessing and not a curse.

Prior to 1974:
Newspaper carrier (or paper boy, whichever you prefer).

1975-1977:
Part-time janitor at my high school.

1978-1998:
U.S. Marine Corps — Personnel Clerk, Personnel/Administrative Chief, Basic Rifleman (Read about marines and you'll understand).

1998-1999:
Office manager for a copier refurbishing and service company.

1999-2000:
Computer operator, statistical analyst, MIS/IT manager for a telemarketing company.

2001-2006:
Accident claims processor (loss taker) for a large trucking corporation.

2006-Present:
Permanently retired. Blog writer. Goof off.

My Online History:

1992-1998:
I ran the "Desert Oasis" Commodore BBS, renamed somewhere along the line to "Oasis Commodore". I'm thinking 1995. My handle was "Wanderer".

May 2006-August 2007:
This blog. The original idea was to use it as a journal of what's happened since moving to the Philippines. It quickly turned into a conglomeration of thoughts and ideas about anything and everything that I experience, both past and present.

August 2007 - Present:
The focus of my blog changed to "Blog Reviews, Promotion, Issues, Monetization and More" to more accurately reflect what I like to do - help others.