What can one say about, Jay, really? (Other than the fact that he's building a house, went to Paris, and recently unearthed his ISU Philosophy Club bio from 1994). One could prattle on endlessly over the trivalities of years past -- there was the birth event in Independence, Missouri, the moves to Lethbridge (Alberta) and Detroit. The formative years in Sioux City (Iowa) colliding with girls, driver's licenses, alcohol, first jobs, heartbreak, friendships, the occasional fullback, "responsibilty," the threat of college. There was college: grades, fraternity brothers, heartbreak, "role modeling," alcohol, political ponderings, philosophical hypothesizings, tifts with that God fellow. College ended on a promise (threat?) of reality. The money was good, and he could always go back if things didn't work out, right? Things seemingly worked out -- a couple years in the sticks (Yankton, South Dakota) learning the rigors of leadership and character and integrity: the rhetoric of those transcendentally inspired by vocations of their own ecclectic harvest. Things changed (as they opt to do), and he found himself amoung the comfortably semi-urban folk of Omaha, Nebraska. A job relocation, and Voila!! -- we find our hero deeply engrossed in the throngs of ... ... ... what?

Here lies the challenge. Much time has been spent carefully calculating the next turn, the fastest, shortest route to the goals of the moment. But things are not as mysterious as they once were. The world is full of familiar faces where once a great adventure lay. The focus has shifted -- where a single, vaulted peak once beckoned those that dare challenge the summit, now a grassy plain offers a vast array of mundane, common pleasures. Active exploration has given way to the mundane study of contentment...

Mostly Harmless: spam1 zoser - RexRacer th.in.gs - Hagler mammoth cam Delinquency hijacked!! Laner's homepage Geary's nuts Handy: Logwatch Fetchmail Red Hat Linux Jay's IP Deoctificator Netscape / IE safe color cube Stats. We take more hits by 6am than most abacuses take all day.

Hmmm. Sorry about that, I'm not sure that any of that made sense. But, hey, its long, and I've got a lot of space on this server so you're just going to have to live with it. In case my narrator was vague, the HR guy at work calls me a Senior Software Engineer (programmer). Work is a telecommunications company called Viatel (striving to be the AT&T of Europe). I work in Business Systems Development (BSD), a subset out Business Information Systems (BIS), located 10 degress NNE of Operations (Operations). I program Perl, Informix (DB design/devel & 4GL), and Internet integration projects (did I mention I'm also Viatel's webmaster? Don't blame me for the public webpage, though). Feel free to look over my resume. Some of my recent diversions include disc golf, community theatre, chess (last time I looked, I was ranked 201st (up 1!) in the state of Nebraska, unless you query the USCF database. Wow.), mountain biking, weight lifting (slacker!!) and miscellaneous computery junk. Email Jay