Seven Things

I’ve always dis­liked the idea of doing some­thing because every­one else is doing it, doing some­thing because it comes to you as a chain etc, but alas I was tagged and didn’t even real­ize it, thanks Brian.  Regard­less here are my seven things about myself:

1. I’m a dual cit­i­zen, yes I grew up in Ger­many and am a Ger­man National (due to my Ger­man mother) but I was also born in Hous­ton, TX to my Amer­i­can Father which brings us to num­ber 2.
2. I have seper­ated myself from most of my imme­di­ate fam­ily (haven’t talked to my dad in almost a year now) due to the con­tin­u­ous drama and bick­er­ing that always fol­lows my inter­ac­tions with them.
3. I have no for­mal sec­ondary edu­ca­tion and it took me 7 years to migrate from doing con­tract design work to seri­ously learn­ing how to pro­gram in my core lan­guage (PHP).
4. I was a sin­gle father for quite a while, at least until Valerie and I started seri­ously dat­ing and she had moved in with me, which means:
5. I have a three year old son whom I didn’t know existed until I was served with Child Sup­port papers when he was 5 months old (his mother “lost” my con­tact infor­ma­tion as we weren’t in a steady relationship)
6. I get obsesive about my hob­bies and I really don’t have that many, over the last year espe­cially I’ve focused down to very few things which at the moment revolve around PHP in the past they evolved around other tech­nol­ogy top­ics such as Cell Phones and PDA’s, Encryp­tion, and Linux how­ever I did have some other hob­bies like rid­ing ATV’s (which oddly enough was tied to another job:)
7. Dur­ing the 7 years that I migrated from doing fron­tend design I held a vari­ety of jobs as pri­mary income sources while I was con­sult­ing at night and over the week­end these included Cloth­ing Inspec­tor for Lee Jeans, Inven­tory Con­trol for Wal-Mart, Tech Sup­port for a Cable Com­pany in Alaska, and my favorite past job: Land Surveyor’s Aide for Geor­gia Power (we did a lot of trav­el­ing, had a lot of fun, rode ATV’s, and other wildness.)

My Seven:

• Ed Fin­kler — Because you really inter­est me, you seem so down to earth when we met at |Works but yet Spaz seems so refined.
• John Chapin — $boss1 Because we just started work­ing together and there are still a lot of things I don’t know about you.
• Sean Crys­tal — $boss2 same as John.
• Jeremi Bergman — Because you seem so focused on your code and alas the amount of time we spent together at eGov so far has been short it’d be inter­est­ing to know more about you.
• Luke Wilkins — New acquain­tance and you will prob­a­bly be the only one really help­ing me setup any­thing for the upcom­ing Knoxville PHP and Python User Group.
• Luke Welling — Because the book you and Laura wrote got me started on PHP back in 01 and I’ve never for­got­ten it.
• Lig­aya Turmelle — I’m in awe with the ded­i­ca­tion it must take to have a full time job, sup­port end­less end users, and be actively involved in a grow­ing community.

Oblig­a­tory Rule Mention:

• Link your orig­i­nal tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
• Share seven facts about your­self in the post — some ran­dom, some weird.
• Tag seven peo­ple at the end of your post by leav­ing their names and the links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged by leav­ing a com­ment on their blogs and/or Twitter.

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