Class of 1984

update: just moved back to bay area. stoked. good winter surf, deep powder boarding, and sunshine warm mountain bike rides are in order. i must say that one year in DC is great for the CA perspective.  
 
alright live oakers: the vault is opening. i have so many tapes from my days there in MH, and now is the time to break them loose.  
 
may this 1st in a series bring back memories....  
 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSOwLtcG7U  
 
since i've thrown a bunch more clips up, here's the main page for convenience:  
 
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=mtnbikrrrr  
 
(boiler plate below)  
 
so what have i been up to since LO?  
 
Chico State (class of 88'). i puked a plenty, but got it out of my system early (no pun intended). i did the late bloomer 18 year old sheisen like, "How many beers can i drink in an hour?" geez. next thing i knew i was holding up a parked boxcar down at the railroad tracks, hurling like a thirsty desert hobo on Epicac. i later moved on to "How many cups of coffee can i drink tonight?" well i'm happy to report that after 13 bottomless cups served up by a smiling counter hottie, i suffered through the worst fraternity meeting in history. my intestinal tract felt like that rope pulled by pumped up lugs on that ESPN show, 'The Strongest Man on Earth'. my teeth were growing like a werewolf, each hair began standing on end, and i sat ready to tear the throat out of our bucket-o-sphincters chapter president who couldn't see past Robert's Rules of Order to save his life or our sanity.  
 
(in no particular order now)  
 
invited into the Directors Guild in 1990. sold motorhomes for a season. worked as a software programmer, webmaster, graphic, UI, and instructional designer, as well as an engineering manager. i was the voice of Quicken for a few years, as well as products for Sun, Oracle, Applied Materials, and MCI.  
 
tried the Alaskan fish thing. played for coin as a street musician. launched boats, drove a tow truck, published poetry and prose. been a photographer, a bike messenger, and a moviehouse projectionist. pumped gas, bussed dishes, and worked 6 months on Johnny Carson's 'Tonight Show'. raced mountain bikes, worked as a bar bouncer (a seedy place), an actor, writer, editor, stage manager, director, and producer. also tended 20 acres of almonds, and was a script supervisor for 1,249 episodes of 'Days of our Lives'. i also worked on 'Wheel of Fortune', 'Scrabble', and a boatload of pilots you absolutely never saw. one funny note on Wheel: during their last week at NBC, a bunch of us went in and put "F^$# YOU" up on the letter board and took some pics. just the thing to show the grandkids.  
 
on the personal side, i enjoy my wife (ex-lawyer who makes video games), 4 year old girl and her little brother (they own me). i do all the dishes, most of the yardwork, and none of the laundry, since i'm color blind and only undergraduate roommates won't tell you when you spend 4 years in pink t-shirts. i try to speak English, Spanish, and Russian, so our kids can grow up saying things their friends don't understand.  
 
i remember once hauling out of the LO parking lot, Pete doing a double take as Wally and I had paper bags over our heads with eyes cut out to see. dumbass punks we were, not realizing ol Pete was then checking out the license plate. and the time ol' Walt just smoked his tires in a, i swear to you, four minute brakestand over in the teachers' parking lot. looked like a four alarm blaze had broken out under the rear wheels. we let up when Stanton came bounding out like Lassie, mouth agape in wonder.  
 
have a good one, folks. stay safe out there. take care. and ENJOY.  
 
:)  
 
p.s. it was nine cups of beer in an hour, which i don't recommend to anyone, under any conditions, even if they're Jabba the Hut with 278% body fat and an O'Neil wetsuit for a stomach lining.