I live in Utah, with my best friend otherwise known as my wife, and two kids. My son will be 4 in August, and my daughter will be 2 in September. They are absolutely adorable kids. I love my family immensely. We have lived in our house for two years, and are still hard at work improving it. Last summer we did major work on the landscaping, and two years ago we remodeled the upstairs. This year is a bit slower, but we still have plans to improve a few things here and there.
I work as an Electrical Engineer in the Simulation and Training division of a major avionics company. The people in my building design the visual image creation equipment and software that go in flight simulators for the military and commercial airlines. In our flight simulators, everything you see out the cockpit window comes from my teams hardware and software. I design and write code for the programmable chips on what amounts to a gigantic, expensive, rack mount video card. It's fun work, with extremely bright and talented people.
I am a percussionist in a volunteer, church-organized orchestra, often seen on TV accompanying a large, well-known choir. Again, it's an environment with so many intelligent people absolutely overflowing with musical talent. I have loved music from a very young age, and am honored to associate with so many that share that same love of music, and the same values I try to live by.
One of my major hobbies, much to my wife's annoyance, is tinkering with my home network. I have a server running Linux, with a web server (this blog is self-hosted), a mail server, a proxy server for my internal network, and several other goodies. As an Electrical Engineer I've written code for various classes in college, and written several scripts in Perl to simplify my working life. I'm interested in most programming languages, have varying levels of proficiency in a handful. Computers are how I make my living, and I'm not sad about that. I'm very interested in web technology, although I have much less experience with web programming and design than with other computer-related skills. I'd love to have more time to explore web programming.
That's me in a nutshell, althought I wouldn't carve my description in stone. I still love exploring different ways to fit into life. Don't you?
