Time Line -- Good

1970 - Born in Metairie, Louisiana.
1972 - Break arm on steel bar. Learn that bone is weaker than steel.
1974 - Brother Sean is born
1975 - Choked by teacher in school. Mom moves me to better school.
1977 - Star Wars shapes my childhood.
1977 - Make up large story about teacher having crush on me, only tell friends, who believe me. Decide I might be a good storyteller.
1980 - Empire Strikes Back
1982 - Go on Catholic Retreat for an afternoon. Experience relaxation and relfection.
1983 - "Graduate" from Grammar School
1983 - Return of The Jedi
1986 - Leave high school because people there are too many assholes.
1986 - Enter Coliseum Medical Center (i.e. Mental Hospital)
1987 - Leave Coliseum Medical Center. Go to better school. Become fairly popular.
1987 - Find home among geeks in Science Fiction Fandom.
1989 - Deflowering with Lesley, first girlfriend.
1989 - Flirt with leaving school again because people are still assholes. I don't and graduate.
1991 - Meet Crystal Guillory, second girlfriend.
1991 - Shot in the dark. I create a graphic-design portfolio, shop it around, and get an internship at Graphics Unlimited, a pre-press service bureau and design house.
1992 - Crystal and I marry.
1995 - Decide I am not happy at Graphics Unlimited any longer or my marriage
1995 - Go live with a couple of friends Jetmore, Kansas.
1995 - Realizing that there really is no life in Kansas, negotiate an art director position at Goldtree Enterprises.
1995 - Move back to Metairie, Louisiana and become Art Director at Goldtree Enterprises, a video game production company.
1995 - Meet Raye McGowen. We move in together in a matter of weeks.
1996 - Raye and I marry.
1996 - Goldtree decides to abandon publishing video games. I work for myself as graphic designer, prepress expert, and copywriter in ad agencies.
1997 - Decide to write more and become a freelance writer. Folks are skeptical.
1998 - Win award for Best of Year from Louisiana Life magazine. Get paid $1000 for one article, a princely sum.
1999 - I take a job at Alliance Prepress, but quit six months later because the owner threatened to fire me after catching cold. Quit on prinicple.
2000 - Receive a job at Rampage Systems in Waltham, MA. Raye and I move to Boston.
2001 - Tiring of machismo at Rampage, I decide to start my own support business.
2001 - Meet and hire Hillary Harris, coach, to help me with transition.
2001 - Join Business Network International (BNI) to help start my business.
2001 - Beat fear of public speaking as BNI forces weekly speeches.
2001 - Meet and become good friends with Nina Udwin, president of group.
2001 - Meet and become good friends with Judy Campbell and Stephen Peiser.
2001 - Begin The Computer Valet, working at night and on weekends.
2002 - Leave Rampage with a month notice and begin The Computer Valet.
2002 - Become president of BNI Waltham Chapter.
2003 - Meet and become good friends with Rose Gschwendter and Sally Rudicel.
2003 - Win an award: Best Technical Support in Boston 2003 from Business 2.0 magazine.
2005 - Am constantly booked, a little overbooked. Scale back business a bit and decide to take on fitness to lose weight.
2006 - Lose 65 pounds. Am no longer borderline diabetic.
2005 - Sell The Computer Valet to willing, if misguided, entreprenuer, working out a payment plan over a year.
2005 - Begin work at Sicklebrook Services on their helpdesk.
2006 - Move with Raye to Houston, TX to be closer to family. Move in with Raye's sister, Taffy.
2007 - Move into house near Taffy's house.
2007 - Begin to realize I do not like working for Sicklebrook.
2007 - Promoted to Project Manager and an executive at SickleBrook, which has become Dove Help Desk.
2008 - The stress and futility of job becomes unbearable. I resign.
2008 - I network with colleagues and friends.