Dry, Boring, Speed Bump Personality, my adoptive parents said I was too serious, neurotic, needed to calm down, chill and get laid.

Now they were boomers born in 1946 in America, so in their twenties in the middle of the 1960's, basically a perpetual party of economic miracles, cheap homes, rising wages, cheap gold, cheap gasoline, cheap food, it was possible for any ordinary working American to get a college degree and once college educated get good paying jobs and become a home owners easily, known as vertical mobility, the affordable American dream realized by so many Americans after the end of WW2. 

Thus their worldview divergent from my encyclopedia reading fact focused analytical personality. I cared more about understanding the world, and became a scientist, college educated, with a BS of Environmental Science from the University of Washington State. Yes, I am not the life of a party, can be dry and serious and boring. I like waking up early, making it happen, have a DIY can do attitude, but have more fun rebuilding an engine than going to a rave, I also sought to avoid STI and STD that become cancer, that became wildly vectored as a result of the Hippie Free Love movement in the 1960's USA.

By the time I was a young child, the Soviet Union was collapsing on TV, which prompted me to research Russia, the History of Russia, the Economy of Russia, dozens of hours of focused reading about what became the Russian Federation by its dictator Vladimir Putin, who was for a long time affiliated personally with President Donald Trump of the USA. Which makes me wonder, why were there friends, what did they have in common and how does this impact the War in the Ukraine, which is rife with corruption and problems vastly exceeding the scope of this post. 

My adoptive father was kissing the heavy glass 480i CRT television in our living room with a show broadcasting Mikhail Gorbachev dismantling the USSR. He says to me "Bud, this is incredible, this means the Russian market now an open economic for trade, this is going to boost our income, this is miracle, you will read and research and understand that the dissolution of the USSR amazing for America and the rest of the world, yet he died in 2015 and what he said did not translate exactly into reality, as you may be well away, the Economy of the Russian Federation smaller than that of Italy, while the Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin has the smallest middle class & greatest income inequality of a country of similar economic size.