Tuesday, October 10, 2006

It's my Dad's birthday!

Happy birthday Dad!
My Dad isn't as old as you might think. He isn't even 55 yet. He and my Mom had me at 21 years old. On top of that they had their 5th kid by the time they were 29... Thats crazy! My Brother Tyler is 29, he's not even dating anyone. It's downright hilarious to imagine my brother Tyler right now with 5 kids and a wife. I didn't have my first kid till I was almost 29. What was in the water back in 1975?

I think my parents were 30 when this photo was taken. My Dad's birthday is a reminder to me on how hard I am going to have to work for the rest of my life, I'll be 85 before I ever inherit anything!

The First Post... again.

I tried a couple of years ago to start a blog. Yeah one entry and that was that man. So here I am again blogging (I really hate that word). Why? It's mostly because I am now responsible for getting some content pod-casted, and I noticed that blogging was by-far the easiest and cheapest way to accomplish this. I also read an article on how some bloggers are making an income on just having a web presence. Like the one that is done close to where I live. Dooce. I have no idea why people love the site so much. The writing is ok, but not that captivating. I have some other friends that blog like TDK (like a male version of the Dooce chic, but better).
I am sure people are not interested in me at all, but could be interested in some of the things I come across. So I guess I will share, and if you don't like it that’s cool, if you do, even cooler. I won’t make any money from this blog and I certainly don't want invitations on finding out how I actually can (presumably by spending a lot of my own money to go to a seminar, and find out how to host seminars on making money with your blog. Its the oldest trick in the book, I fell for it once when I was like 15, glad I learned then and not later on with a lot more money at risk).
You will see that I use parenthesis a lot and spell check never. I don't have ADD, but I do think in tangents all of the time. I am not a writer by any means ("obvious" you say). Although, I am a thinker (thank-you Glenn Beck) If that were true, I would have come up with something else just as clever to get the same point across... Hey, I just did.
I enjoy humor and wit, and I try to avoid depressing chatter, but not depressing topics. I think topics that depress us are important to discuss, and challenge us to temper our optimism.


Here is a little Bio, in case you wanted to know something about me:

Born in 1975 in Los Angeles, California (please never say Cali, or "The O.C.", so-Cal is OK but I coined lo-Cal a while back just to set myself apart from the Cal pride people from places like 619 or 714).

My family moved to San Diego when I was 5 and I was there all the way through High School. I liked it a lot. I am a member of the LDS faith and served a mission in Porto, Portugal from 95-96. I came back from my mission and got a real job and realized that San Diego was not going to be the place I would want to live and work, mostly because of the rat-race I was living in, commuting to a job 15 miles away and spending over 2 hours a day making that commute. Around the time I was making that decision, I met my wife. She was going to grad-school in Utah, and I had a lot of family/connections there, plus I had ambitions to go and finish School at BYU. That, much to the dismay of my father, never happened.

I began my career in IT, and have never really looked back. While my wife has both a Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree, our earning power was about equal. I lost the vision of the "value" of a degree, notwithstanding the value of an education; I have since declared myself an Autodidact. If I were to go back to college it would be in the singular pursuit of a JD.

So here I am a married man, with an incredible son (more about him later). I am also excited to be having a daughter in a few months. Family life is the greatest thing I can ever hope to be successful at. I have my challenges but I am excited to carry on and improve.

I was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 2005, but have been in remission since my radiation therapy. That was a low point, but not the lowest in my life.

I enjoy family life, spending time with them. I don’t have a lot of free time to dedicate to hobbies. I probably can’t just pick one and stick with it anyway, too many things fascinate and compel me. I am good at what I do for a living and that is very satisfying. I have wonderful clients and they inspire me to work hard and deliver my best to them.

I like to travel, but seldom do lately (little kids make it almost impossible). I like sports, but unfortunately never participate in any at this point in time. That needs to change, really soon too.

So enough boredom for you, I will try to post again soon.