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 % info; use this at your own typographical risks...
 
 % personal data
-\name{Daniel}{Loman}
-%\address{726 De La Vina}{Santa Barbara Ca 93101}{}% optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; the "postcode city" and "country" arguments can be omitted or provided empty
-\phone[fixed]{(805) 901-8781}
-\email{loman.daniel@gmail.com}                               % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
-\homepage{www.DanLoman.org}                         % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
-\social[github]{http://github.com/dloman}                              % optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
+\name{Daniel}{Watson}
+%\address{726 De La Vina}{Santa Barbara Ca 93101}{}
+% optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted; the
+% "postcode city" and "country" arguments can be omitted or provided empty
+\phone[fixed]{(805) 699-5690}
+\email{ozzloy@challenge-bot.com}
+% optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
+\homepage{www.challenge-bot.org}
+% optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
+\social[code]{https://gitlab.com/ozzloy}
+% optional, remove / comment the line if not wanted
 
-%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+%-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 %            content
-%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+%-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 \begin{document}
-%-----       letter       ---------------------------------------------------------
+%-----       letter       ------------------------------------------------
 % recipient data
-\recipient{Hiring Manager}{InTouch Health \\ Santa Barbara}
+\recipient{Hiring Manager}{Ladder Life}
 \date{\today}
 \opening{Dear Sir or Madam,}
 \closing{Sincerely,}
-\enclosure[Attached]{curriculum vit\ae{}}          % use an optional argument to use a string other than "Enclosure", or redefine \enclname
+\enclosure[Attached]{curriculum vit\ae{}}
+% use an optional argument to use a string other than
+% "Enclosure", or redefine \enclname
 \makelettertitle
 
-I am inquiring about employment for the Robotics Software Engineer position.
+I am inquiring about employment for the Software Engineer
+position.
 
-I am currently involved with the Santa Barbara Hackerspace.
-We were donated one of your robots and I have been greatly enjoying the process of restoring
-the robot to a working condition. I believe that my previous experience in building advanced \cpp \space applications,
-as well as my prior experience building and producing hardware/software systems,
-will strongly relate to helping advance the work InTouch is doing.
-Constantly learning and pushing my knowledge of new technical skills is important to me,
-and it looks like this position, and working with the InTouch team would allow me to do just that.
-I feel that the combination of my skills, as well as my desire and ability to quickly learn new skills,
-could make me be a valuable asset to your team and help build better medical robots in the future.
+I believe I will be able to implement full-stack features for Ladder.
+For the past few months, I've been learning Clojure's web stack in
+order to create a web app that my grampa and I can play remotely.
 
-I look forward to discussing my qualifications further and can be reached by email at
-\href{loman.daniel@gmail.com}{\textcolor{color2}{loman.daniel@gmail.com}}.
+It is up and running at \httplink{bingo.challenge-bot.com}.  You can
+visit it right now, choose any username, log in and get a bingo card.
+It uses websockets to synchronize the game across all logged in
+players.  In order to get this running, I had to learn a lot about the
+stack tech that goes into any web page.  From http request to A-record
+(and AAAA-record), from Apache reverse proxy to the dynamic duo of
+Ring and Compojure, I have written and configured the tech behind the
+bingo page.  Reagent has provided a clean, functional way of updating
+the UI, and I am looking into Reframe to handle state update
+management.
+
+Those are just some of the technologies I learned specifically for
+this page.  In addition, I run GNU and Linux on my laptop and have
+been maintaining a personal virtual server for over a decade.
+
+Clojure makes programming for the web fun again, and Clojurescript
+means I can create meaningful connections for people like my grampa,
+who know very little about computers.
+
+I look forward to discussing my qualifications further and can
+be reached by email at
+\href{ozzloy@challenge-bot.com}{\textcolor{color2}{ozzloy@challenge-bot.com}}.
 
 \makeletterclosing
 \end{document}