I was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and spent my early years in New Orleans. By junior high I was living in Richmond, TX, outside of Houston, where my stepfather landed a job with a deepwater drilling company as an administrator. That job took us to Cairo, Egypt, where I spent my first 3 years of high school in a closely-knit American community, and from where I had the opportunity to travel to Paris, Athens, Rhodes and around Egypt on many school trips. My senior year of high school was spent in Singapore, from whence I was able to take short trips to Bankok, Bali, and Kathmandu. Doing all this traveling at such a young age left many a profound impression on me, chief among them that people are the same underneath the skin anywhere you go. I also learned to play guitar an developed an interest in becoming a musician during this time. I returned to the States in 1981 to attend college, and my days of company-paid trips were soon to be a thing of the past. Much partying and indecision later, I graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, LA, with a Bachelor of Arts in Music in 1988. I had married in 1987, and so, having new resposibilities, I went to work in the Food Service industry in Houston. In 1991 I was hired by Enterprise Leasing to work in the wholesale department, and over the next 5 years became an Area Remarketing Manager, selling 300-800 rental and leasing cars to dealers every month. All this without ever using the Internet. In 1996 I bought my first computer and began trying to teach myself everything I could learn about how to use it. Since then I have worked in many different occupations, and I have tried to learn something new from all of them. I now live in Hammond, LA with my wife of 20 years, Liz, and our two Persian cats.