My kids
Playing music
Playing music
Online games - primarily Yahoo and Pogo
Playing music
Owning my domicile (doesn't make me gay or metro - I'm metro already lol)
Did I mention playing music?
People I’d Love to Spend the Day With:
Friedrich Nietzsche, the father of post-modernism
Plato - I want to spend an afternoon spelunking
St. Augustine, the first expressed self-loather
Sir Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein - a true genius, and a great quote...
Condi Rice ~ Perhaps the smartest woman on the planet
Aristotle - Excellence is not an act but a habit.
Amy Grant..... Amy is close to the ideal woman
Anyone with the intelligence to know that myspace isn't life ~ it's just a networking tool on steroids...
On the beach at La Selva Beach, Ca ~My friend Jay's backyard...
There's Great Whites in them there waters...(circa 1986...note the skinnyness)
Now a little about me:
I was born in Niles, Michigan, and within 6 months I was transported to Amarillo, Texas, and then to Las Cruces, New Mexico, where I lived until I was 6.I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when I was 12 from Eastern Pennsylvania, and have lived in California ever since. In high school, I got the chance to go to Monterey Bay Academy in La Selva Beach - a private boarding school that owned 3/4 mile of it's own beach on the Pacific Ocean. I swear, I must have spent more time on the beach or in the water than I did in school.
I immersed myself not only in the water, but also in the 80's culture. I get teased a bit for being able to name any song and band from the 80's....
Now, as a result of all that water play, I am an 'older' college student.... Trying to get into an X-Ray Tech progam... I am a janitor that manages OTHER janitors (fun times), and run a side business installing home theater systems and satellite systems.
I play in a Christian rock band;
I love to tinker with my old school Toyota Land Cruiser 4X4 and try not to cause body damage on the trails. I once got both rear wheels in the air at the same time while 4 wheelin' at Cow Mountain OHV Park in northern California...
I enjoy basketball, baseball and more basketball.....
I have 3 kids, Ashley, Luke and Jathan:
~Ashley is in college as a sophomore taking graphic design.
~Luke is almost 6 and he isn't doing much other than playing with his 'Thomas the Train' wooden train and track set, and his Transformers
~Jathan is still tiny and cute, and LOVES Thomas as well.... Too precious!!!
Much to the chagrin of many of my friends and family, my secret country music fetish has been made public - - just another thing you'll have to deal with hahaha......
Not necessarily in order, but .....Aerosmith Landon Pigg Plain White T's Building429 The Irrelevant The Multiple Sarcasms (and any other band I choose the name for) Don Henley Journey Pink Floyd Damn Yankees Third Day Toby Keith Steel Dragon Travis Tritt Shania No Doubt Kutless Downhere Allan Parsons Project Rush David Bowie Howard Jones Duran Duran Stevie Ray Vaughan The Eagles Led Zeppelin Carrie Underwood Bad Company Audio Adrenaline Switchfoot Ted Nugent Metallica Eminem Kid Rock Sheryl Crow Def Leppard .38 Special Madonna Amy Grant Michael W. Smith Mozart on the Piano Tchaikovsky Irish Folk Music Godsmack Roger Waters Eric Clapton FFH (Far From Home) PFR (Pray For Rain) Chevelle Yngwie Malmsteen Joe Satriani Steve Vai Newsboys AC/DC Peter Schilling Heart Queensryche Bon Jovi Velvet Revolver Live Fiona Apple Tool Stevie Nicks Avril Paul Colman Milli Vanilli (not really)
The Tao of Steve
Office Space (duh)
Rockstar (duh)
The Usual Suspects
6th Sense
Almost Famous
The Notebook (yea I know....but I loved it...)
The Princess Bride (Shhh again...)
The Breakfast Club
Less Than Zero ~ One of the few movies from the 80's besides The Breakfast Club with any substance...
~ anything that doesn't insult my intelligence ~
The Office
Chuck
MacGyver reruns...
Magnum reruns too
History Channel
The Military Channel
That 70's Show
~Dan Brown's Angels and Demons
~~~It was better than The Da Vinci Code ~ maybe now they will do a movie of it......
~Digital Fortress
~My Name is Asher Lev
~The Rescue ~ My grandfather's story as a POW in the Philippines - almost marched to death.
Am I a dork if I put Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"?
The Giving Tree ~ Shel Silverstein
I'm OK, You're OK ~ Thomas Harris
How to Win Friends and Influence People ~ Dale Carnegie
~My father.... He has so many valuable and practical pieces of advice...
~Floyd C. Reynolds - My grandfather ~ a true war hero, and a very well grounded man
~Jay Ketelsen - my first REAL employer who is the smartest and most efficient man I know
~Lynden Chapman - the assistant dean at Monterey Bay Academy in the 80's - my 1st non-grandfather hero - a patient man who knows how to get me to think.
~Greg King - Religion professor who is one of the very, very few authentic and genuine Christians I know
~Julius Nam ~ A TRUE liberal, Julius is the OTHER genuine Christian I know. He opened my eyes to a lot of things in this world, and I cherish my friendship with him.
~Tim Mitchell - Awesome pastor and good friend. I can count on Tim to tell me the way it is ~ whether I like it or not. I wish more people were like that....
I don't have any famous people as heros because I don't REALLY know them as human beings.
These men I wrote about above, have all played crucial roles in my life, and I continue to strive to infuse their good traits into my own life. They were there for me when I needed them, and I am honored to know them.
I am to a large extent ~ who I am today because of these men.