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About Me

It's Me! Professionally - Programmer/Analyst specializing in geospatial technologies - GIS and CAD - particularly their integration, and design to as-built workflow management
Avocations:
Teaching - I teach band and music to elementary age children, and CAD at a local college . Want to learn piano? See me and you can learn to play popular music in just a few weeks.
Music - I play multiple instruments, specializing in Trombone, and playing keyboards. I really enjoy arranging music. I play in several bands - Copper Rocket (a dance band), Right at the Light (a skacore band) , and seasonally the Glendale Summer Band (a community concert band) and the Play It Again Band (a parade band for the Fiesta Bowl). I also periodically sub on some local orchestras and play in solo or small groups around town.
Listen to recordings of a couple of my bands at the left of this page!
Scouting - I'm a long-time Scouter and currently serving as an Assistant District Commissioner. I was recently awarded the Silver Beaver.
Upcoming Performances:
Coming Soon
Recent Performances:
24 Jan 09 - Copper Rocket Track and Field Party
17 Jan 09 - Glendale Stake Youth Olympics Performing Arts
31 Dec 08 - Copper Rocket - New Years Eve Block Party
6,7, and 8 Nov 08 - Glendale Stake - The Down and Back Boys
18 Oct 08 - Solo jazz trombone solo - Safford HS All Class Reunion
- Mas Que Nada by Jorge Ben
26 Sep 08 - Copper Rocket - Avenue for the Arts @ Mesa Riverview Plaza
16 Aug 08 - Right at the Light - Yucca Tap Room at 9pm
31 May 08 - Copper Rocket - A Family Celebration of Music and Arts Festival, Mesa Convention Center
Apr 18 - Arizona Symphony - An Evening on Broadway With George Dyer
Mar 21 - Right at the Light - Tempe
Feb 28 - Right at the Light - opening for The Pietasters
Feb 16 - Copper Rocket - Ahwatukee Has Heart 5K Run and Health Expo
Jan 26 - Copper Rocket - Youth Event
Dec 29 - Play It Again Band - Fiesta Bowl Parade - Downtown Phoenix
Dec 15 - Copper Rocket - Cortina Community Park , Queen Creek
Dec 9 - Handel's Messiah - Mesa Mountain View Stake

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Just about anyone, particularly if you have an interest in my vocation or avocations.

My Blog

Dillon Cossey - the BB gun terrorist

  I've been watching with fascination the news reports about Dillon Cossey. He's a 14-year old boy recently sentenced to 7 years in a juvenile detention center for "conspiracy to commit terror." ...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:09:00 GMT

Thanks, Mr Long

  John F. Long was a developer in the West Vaslley here in metropolitan Phoenix who did quite well building master-planned communities. Aside from his business success, he was also a great exampl...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:46:00 GMT

English Only - who’re the real traitors"

  I recently read an email circulating - not the first time I've read this particular email, but this time I felt the need to comment. The email is Colonel Harry Riley's rant against the congress...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:15:00 GMT

Good bye, Dan

  This year, as we celebrate New Years, we will undoubtedly hear a lot of Dan Fogelberg's "Another Auld Lang Syne." This year will be a little more poignant - Dan has died this morning. For ...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:18:00 GMT

The loss of creativity in education

  Is our current form of education harming our children? Are we over- emphasizing the wrong things?    Ken Robinsons suggests just that. Sir Ken Robinson is a well-known autho...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:40:00 GMT

Big surprise

  Here's something for fun. Find out where you are politically at the Political Compass site.  They have an online test, and I find that, big surprise, I'm a right-sided libertarian, http://...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:40:00 GMT

Misery is self-cultivated

  My thoughts this evening are about how misery is a self-inflicted poison. Well, maybe not self-inflicted, as it could be brought on by external events. But it is one that we nourish and encoura...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:10:00 GMT

What makes us who we are

  I was in a discussion where the topic of why certain people did the things they do. Sure enough, the blame was placed on their upbringing. They were raised that way, so that was why they b...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:37:00 GMT

Patriots? Watch out!

  FARMERS BRANCH, Texas just voted in a new law preventing landlords from renting to illegal aliens. Tim O'Hare, the City Council Member leading the charge made the statement "It says especi...
Posted by on Sun, 13 May 2007 08:12:00 GMT

Perception is Reality

Perception is Reality. I've been hearing this statement a lot of late. It has become a platitude in the business world. It was developed in the business environment to describe customer buying. If a c...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:29:00 GMT