Chris

Layouts Graphics Quizzes Polls SurveysI guess you could say I was a child of the 70's and grew up in the 80's. I don't know if anyone really grew up during the 80's. It was after all known as the decade of decadence. I tried to indulge to the fullest. I use to box golden gloves and karate back in the day (more of the glorious 80's) and even bounced some at a local bar called "The Creek". I think everybody did though, seemed the whole place would break out into a fight some nights, like some bad scene out of Road House. When I wasn't there we were racing old muscle cars on some back road. I loved working with my hands and so I worked architectural millwork for 15 years. I guess you could say after the sad realization the 80's were never coming back, and a lot of hard lessons learned growing up, I then decided to go back to college in my 30's, and graduated with a degree in architectural drafting & design (CAD). Now I work as a project manager/technical expert for an architectural company in Jackson MS. I spend most of my free time around the house with my beautiful wife Linda and our animals. More animals than Linda would care to deal with on most days. A long list which includes a dog, cats, snakes, yes snakes, lizards (mostly rescued from the cats)rats, feeder mice and fish. One of my other goals is to build a new house in the near future. We're looking for some land now. I'm almost ready to build a shop so I can do all the millwork in the house. I'd like to put a small lake on the property to bass fish. Maybe a few horses and even some cattle. It’s been one of my dreams for many years. This will be the second house I've built, the first was in Virginia. I grew up there in the 70's. I still love it there, and go back and visit old friends every chance I get.