Time Line -- Good/Bad

1970 - Born in Metairie, Louisiana.
1972 - Broke Arm
1974 - School. Very traumatic.
1974 - Sean is born
1975 - Choked by teacher in school. Moved to St. Francis Xavier.
1977 - Star Wars
1977 - Make up large story about teacher having crush on me, only tell friends
1978 - Major issues with teasing at school
1980 - Empire Strikes Back
1982 - Go on Catholic Retreat for an afternoon. Experience mental silence.
1983 - I and two girls accuse Troy Walker of having said a bad word. It's a lie.
1983 - "Graduate" from Grammar School
1983 - Return of The Jedi
1984 - I swing a bar at Sean, scarring his face.
1985 - The Descent. Teasing picks up in high school.
1986 - Leave school. Go into room.
1986 - Enter Coliseum Medical Center (i.e. Mental Hospital)
1987 - Leave Coliseum Medical Center
1987 - Join SFFandom
1989 - Meet Lesley, first girlfriend
1989 - Deflowered
1989 - After two more high-schools, graduate high-school.
1990 - Meet Crystal Guillory, second girlfriend.
1992 - Crystal and I take driving trip to Disney. I obsess about car breaking down and our getting killed by serial killer.
1992 - First PROFESSIONAL JOB: Graphics Unlimited, a pre-press service bureau and design house.
1992 - Having foiled the serial killer, Crystal and I marry.
1995 - Develop "Crush" on Crystal's sister, Kirby. I do not tell her and experience immense anxiety and depression over six months.
1995 - Abruptly leave Graphics Unlimited, separate with Crystal, and move to Jetmore, Kansas. Ask friend for help with suicide because "I am incapable of love." He declines.
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 - Laid off from Goldtree. I work for myself as graphic designer, prepress expert, and copywriter in ad agencies.
1997 - Become a freelance writer.
1999 - Not making hardly any money, I go back to prepress.
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 - 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 - The Dark Summer. Little work through summer months.
2002 - Become president of BNI Waltham Chapter.
2003 - Meet and become good friends with Rose Gschwendter and Sally Rudicel.
2005 - Am very successful, but feel enormously squeezed. Start to make large mistakes. I am overworked and severely depressed.
2005 - Tell inappropriate joke at business meeting and am asked to leave. I told joke out of anger and fear, angry at the success of my business.
2005 - Hurricanes Katrina and Rita affect both my and Raye's families in Louisiana and Texas. My parents lose their house and Raye's mother has an emotional setback that requires her to go into hospital.
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.
2006 - Diagnosed with C.Difficle infection. Many months of searching and small amount of medication knock it out.
2007 - Move into house near Taffy's house.
2007 - Develop "Crush" on co-worker at Sicklebrook. Go to therapy. Decide I am just hiding the fact that I hate job and try to quit, but am unsuccessful. (Owner talks me out of it.)
2007 - Stress of job increases due to high employee turnover and my taking on additional responsibilities.
2007 - Planned trip to Sedona, AZ with friends from Boston. Spend second to last night of trip considering suicide because, at 37, I feel like I've never gotten my professional life in order. I consider feigning illness to skip out on a rafting trip to find a peak from which to jump.
2007 - Do not jump from a cliff. I go to rafting trip.
2007 - Promoted to Project Manager and an executive at SickleBrook, which has become Dove Help Desk.
2008 - Spend many months assailing myself with self-talk about my inability to step up to the struggles of personnel management. Approach many mornings at work shaking from anxiety.
2008 - Experience "nervous breakdown" and leave job for three days.
2008 - While in Boston for annual company meeting, experience worsening panic-attack. I resign from job immediately. I drive around area attempting to find friends. Desperately want to jump from Tobin bridge. I do not. I put aside shame of having "failed" and call Raye and gets me in touch with Nina.
2008 - I come back to Houston in bad shape.