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I am now 43 yrs old and unfortunately just starting to realize how much I took my body's health for granted. I am starting to feel aches and pains in the weirdest places and at the weirdest times. Take heed young people of the world, Your metabolism will not keep you thin forever. ....

I am a freelance audio visual tech in the DFW area. I am a pretty decent Video 1 (not quite a Video Engineer yet...sighhh). I have coordinated as many as 150 or so breakout rooms at once. That means making sure that they get the right equipment sent to them and they get set up correctly and on time and sometimes the times that each of these occurred varied with other rooms. It was....hmmm, interesting and fun and I look forward to doing it all over again sometime. I am good enough in my profession that I make some pretty good bucks though not so good yet that I make the AWESOME bucks. I would say it is all about the Benjamins, but quite frankly I really do like what I do for a living and I find it very difficult to even imagine doing anything else for a living. I am recently getting involved with doing a bit of traveling as well. And, I have been asked if I want to go on the road far more often in a supervisory position (aka managing break-out rooms or the exhibit hall AV) but still freelance. I think I am gonna do it. We could really use the money. Here's a link to my work website! ....

I am married....for the third and final time. In my first marriage I had one daughter (now 22). In my second I had two daughters (now 16 and 14). In this one, we ain't having any. My beautiful lovely wife has also been married twice before. In her first marriage she had two sons (now 25 and 22). In her second marriage she had two daughters (now 15 and 11). Count them up and that is seven kiddos between the two of us. It does get hectic here at times. ....


My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Kevin Smith, and George Lucas. ....

My Blog

My Experience with AVW in Houston

A dear friend of mine had an accident that prevented him from working an event in Houston for AVW. Now, I know that I said that I wouldn't work for AVW mainly because of financial considerations. Howe...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:10:00 GMT

Las Vegas

Well, I got to Las Vegas after a verrrry long plane ride. The airport was the same. What was different is that since I was staying at the MGM Grand, the hotel had a section all to themselves at the ai...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:51:00 GMT

Indianapolis Trip Synopsis

Well, I just got done with a show in Indianapolis from 19-28 Mar 08. I am going to talk briefly about the trip out, the show itself, where we stayed, the restaurants, the local labor, and the trip to...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:26:00 GMT

Acer Notebooks Part Two

So, ready for Part Two? Good. So, I left off with deciding yet again to re-format. Let's just say that this is sometimes a necessary step with any computer that has a Windows Operating System on it, b...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:16:00 GMT

Acer Notebooks Part One

So, not too long ago my old HP laptop began to mess up for the umpteenth time. Usually when it began to mess up that bad I would have to re-format it and start over from scratch. As you might imagine,...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:48:00 GMT

Boston Trip

American Chemical Society in Boston 15-25 Aug 07Flew in on 15 Aug and got to the hotel about 12:30pm or so. Keep in mind that I called two weeks ago to conform whether or not internet access was free...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:28:00 GMT

Chicago Conference 21-31 Mar 07

Chicago, 25-29 Mar 07Well, on the 25th we got the rest of the booths set up. It took right up until 4pm to get all 10 booths done. In Dallas 10 booths could have been done by noon at the very latest. ...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:52:00 GMT

Chicago Conference 21-31 Mar 07

I am going to handle this by writing for three days at a time. My part of the gig is actually 22-29 Mar 07 with the 22nd and the 29th being travel days. The gig is ACS (American Chemical Society) and ...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:00:00 GMT

New Orleans: What it is and isn't

Well, overall my trip to New Orleans was ok. Just ok though. It seemed to me that the people there were trying too hard to be just like they were and it seemed forced at times. Let me say this tho, we...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:21:00 GMT

New Orleans

Well, I made it alive to New Orleans. The hotel (Holiday Inn Express on Carondelet) is a disgusting place to have to spend 10 days, but oh freakin well.My room mate got to the hotel well before I did ...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:57:00 GMT