Apparently I’ve been tagged.. More than once.. Huh, who knew??

So, 5 things about me..

1. I really am a jeweler.. My primary job is designing jewelry and ocassionally I get to make a few pieces.. I love the job.. I mean come on, I get to make women cry and get men laid!!

2. I am a serial entrepreneur.. I don’t work well for others.. To date I’ve started, managed, and experimented with more than 10 companies.. Some of them quite successful.. Others not so much.. My favorites?? The architecture studio (I have a BA in Architecture from UNM) and the comic book store.. But others that were fun include the resteraunt, magazine publishing, obviosly the jewelry thing I do now, and sometimes the old web company that I still help with from time to time..

3. I used to play keyboards in a Mexican band.. (I’m as white as they come) Spent a summer touring the greater South Bend, IN., area with a group of friends playing quincinatas and ther things.. Didn’t know any of the music.. Couldn’t understand a word that was said.. Just played fast and loud and kept the beat.. But it was fun..

4. I am easily bored.. Probably why #2 is up there.. I am all about the excitement of the startup and getting things organized.. But once it becomes a step by step job I’m ready to hand it off and move on to the next big thing.. It’s probably also why I tend to unload on people in the forums.. It spices up my day and lets me exercise a part of my brain I have to keep under check in most situations..

5. In a former life I really was one of “those kinds of hackers”.. I grew up with a soldering iron in my hands.. My first computer was a CoCo 1, and my second was a Heathkit that I built myself.. I wrote most of my own software and even a few games.. At my peak I ran one of the more popular 0 Day BBSs out there.. 4 nodes, 14.4k, and literally hundreds of megs of software “before” it was released.. Who would have figured I’d switch sides so dramatically??

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