About Me (Kinda)

I’m Easy Going…

This picture here shows me best.. I’m easy going. I like life when it’s fast paced and dirty and I like it when it’s cool, calm, and rolling along at its own natural pace, but mainly I like it best with my dog by my side.

I’m a Hard Worker… This is me from one of our jobs in Africa. I’m hot, tired, sweaty, and covered in the dirt and mud from crawling in sewer lines in a third world country while trying to install fiber cable for a customer company. I get a lot of flack for it, but I LIKE to work with my team in the mud and the sweat and the sand. I’m a firm believer that very few people can effectively lead from a desk. As part of my job I have to lead people and ask them to work in what are sometimes some pretty bad conditions, so I do it with them.

I love my team. They’re great people and THEY are what make the job worth doing… not the job itself.

I’m a father…

I’m the proud father of an fourteen year old little girl named Hannah. If  you don’t know me personally then I can’t begin to describe this part of my life, but at the end of the day I know I did something right. She’s great… and never lets me forget it. She ice skates better than me, she hang glides better than me, and I’m sure the list will keep growing as time goes on.

And that’s ROOT BEER you goobs.. relax! Hell, I don’t even drink so what makes you think I’d let her do it?

I’m a Husband…

As of last year I’m also the husband of a beautiful woman, my high-school sweetheart, my first true-love, my first prom date, and the one I’m going to spend the rest of my life with. I’d tell the whole story here but that would take pages and pages. I’ll just say firmly that I’m the luckiest man in the world and leave it there!

I’m a family man…

My family means everything to me. I owe who and what I am to the people who raised me, instilled values in me, and supported me all those times I almost fell down while always helping me climb higher. My mother is probably my closest relative because she’s the one I see the most and has probably done more for me than any mother should have to, and I love her for it.

I’m a clown… I can’t help it. I like to laugh. I like to enjoy myself. I love to work hard and to play harder. If you can’t enjoy all the parts of your life then you’re living it wrong. So, I’m a little bit of a clown I suppose… there are worse things to be.

I’m a Cowboy… lol.. yeah, that’s me. My job makes me very tech savvy, so I tend to overcompensate by trying to remain as country as I can when I’m not working. I have more cowboy hats than business suits, more boots than loafers, and more belts than most women I know.

I grew up with the opportunity to work horses at a young age and never lost the love of it. I’d quit my job right now if the right opportunity presented itself to me to work in that arena full time. At this point in my life I have 3 dogs, 3 horses, and enough land to ride them on that I never need to leave it. I’m luckier than most and happier than anyone I know!

I’m not a redneck or a hillbilly. I’m smarter than most, pretty good looking, and I know what the X means inside my Stetson! lol.

I’m a friend…

I think this one is the most important of all. You can be many things to many people; their father, son, brother, co-worker, employer, subordinate, or a myriad of other things but it you can’t be a friend then you’ve got nothing to show for any of it.

I have the ability to call a great group of people my friend, which I think is a larger accomplishment than any other I’ve ever made. My friends are my lifeline to my sanity. From eight to eighty, they fall all in between and come from all walks of life.