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About Me

A former grad of SIUC I now work in the St Louis area as a Unix Admin. Yes it sounds boring but it's actually a pretty cool job. It allows me to work with various forms of new technology on a daily basis and grow as the techology does. This is important to me because if you don't keep up with technology you get left behind.During the race season I do motorsports photography freelance. I hope one day to make the big bucks but until then I am learning and improving my skills to make them the best they can be. I have had help from many sports photographers over the last year and I have learned so much.
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My Interests

Anything fun: I'm open to doing anything that makes you live life to the fullest. I don't want to sit on my ass and wait to die. Photography, weightlifting, racing, and ATV's are just a fraction of the things I love to do.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone. I'm pretty much open to anything fun.

Music:

Latin music like Reggeaton. Progressive, house, 80s, 90s, now, and just about anything that sounds good. I don't care for trendy music that is nothing more than eye candy hooked up to a kareoke machine. For me to really appreciate good music there really needs to be some talent in the musician. I also don't care what language the music is in as long as it is good.

Movies:

Shawshank Redemption, Life, Days of Thunder, Star Wars II III IV V VI, Top Gun, Back to the Future, Sixth Sense, 12 Monkeys, and just about anything good.

Television:

Lost, Family Guy, American Dad, Simpsons, CIS's (not new york), Alias, Monk, Dead Zone, 4400. Just about anything good.

Books:

Anything by King, To Kill a Moking Bird, Koontz, too much to list..

Heroes:

Sgt. First Class Randall 'Randy' David Shughart
Master Sgt. Gary Ivan Gordon
Senior Sgt Edwin H Dazachacon
My father

My Blog

I’ve been tagged.

Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird, random things, facts, habits, or goals about yourself. At the end choose 10 people to be tagged, listing their names and why you chos...
Posted by Big Papi on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:01:00 PST

James A. Cochran 3-7-2008

At 7am Central on March 7th 2008 my dad (my hero) passed away. I'm not sure where to go from here but please say a prayer for my family and my mom especially to give her the strenght to get...
Posted by Big Papi on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:37:00 PST

Update on my dad.

Well... here is an update. Went and saw him last night. He was very weak and not doing very good. They had to make a choice on weather or not to operate on him to fix a condition he ...
Posted by Big Papi on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:54:00 PST

Faith.....

Well... in his infinate wisdom in the last year Gods plan has delt some interesting blows. Last year as you all know me and the wife split. People said that was part of Gods plan and over ...
Posted by Big Papi on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:15:00 PST

Could have been much worse

Well, last thurs when the snow got bad I was on my way home from work and almost wiped out my car. I just came off the main highway onto a state highway and I was doing fine but then all the sud...
Posted by Big Papi on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:21:00 PST

Life is good (Broken Heart Pt XI)

I haven't posted in a while so I'll drop a line on how things are going. Things are great. That is all lol. --Mike
Posted by Big Papi on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:25:00 PST

Silly Scooter

Well.. when scooter got sick I went out and spent some money on stuff for the cats. I even bought this little cat "fort" for them and rather than play with that what does she do??? S...
Posted by Big Papi on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:41:00 PST

Update on Scooter

Well.. last night she was not doing good. She was not moving around, meowing a lot and just seemed to be in pain. We took her back up to the Vets office and she in fact had not comple...
Posted by Big Papi on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:06:00 PST

My baby girl..

I don't normally like to do this but I'd like to ask you animal lovers out there to please say a prayer for my baby girl scooter. She's seven years old and I had to take her to the ER tonight ni...
Posted by Big Papi on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:01:00 PST

Judgement?

Best quote ever. "Judge not, less ye be judged" and "Be my friend, not my judicator" Life can be taken out of context real easy people. A true friend knows when to read between the lines....
Posted by Big Papi on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:06:00 PST