Welcome to my personal page. It was brought to my attention that I needed to share more about myself as to not appear aloof. Since my stories tend to get long winded, I resorted to creating a small page detailing a few important areas. This way, I do not bore people or confuse them or myself with the chronology of it all.

My Background:

Born: April 1976 in San Juan, Puerto Rico

I am engaged to a beautiful woman named Kim

I fluently speak English and Spanish, and I don't have an accent in either language.

I moved from Puerto Rico to Mexico City at the age of 3 almost 4 and lived there about 8 months. I only mention it because I still vividly remember so many experiences in Mexico. I remember my first day of pre-kinder school. It was a lonely classroom with clashing 70's orange furniture and yellow walls for new inductees to the school. I cried all day long until it hurt, and I fell asleep in front of the window overlooking the front driveway of the school on a rainy day. I woke up at days end and time for pickup. It must have been a short day or I slept a lot. Who knows. A few weeks later, the bastards threw me into a swimming pool and I wasn't even 4 years old yet. Another thing I remember is that my brother and I would climb on the roof of the 3 story house to check the gas tank. Petrol for the heaters and stoves was delivered biweekly and you had to notify them in advance. Else you would not have hot water. My mother always boiled the drinking water as a precaution.

While there, we experienced 2 earthquakes. The first earthquake was early in the morning about 6 am, everybody ran out into the street. Its standard earthquake procedure. It keeps you from becoming a statistic, number of people buried alive. You never know when structures will crumble there. The 2nd quake was pretty considerate. It came during lunch time. I was making a peanut butter jelly sandwich in the kitchen. Somehow the peanut butter spreads funny during a quake, and you just know, its time to run outside.

I have resided in the continental United States since the age of 4 yrs old. After Mexico, we moved to Houston Texas. Our first apartment complex, was a 2 bedroom apartment. I don't remember much other than playing with my superman doll in the parking lot. We probably only lived there about 4-5 months, and soon we relocated to a larger apartment. Our first apartment was haunted. Some kid about 8 years old walked around playing, and he sometimes cried at night. It was spooky, but we were young and never understood the whole thing. It wasn't till about 10-12 years later that my mother explained it all to us.

... INSERT A LOT OF HISTORY HERE ...

Places I have Lived (in order):

San Juan, PR

Mexico City, Mexico

Sugar Land, TX (Houston Area)

New Town, PA (Philly Area)

Lexington, KY (High School Years)

Madison, WI (Univ of Wisconsin)

Columbus, OH (Ohio State University)

Orlando, FL

Marietta, GA (Atlanta Area)

Miscellaneous:

A few pictures of my trip to Puerto Rico in April 2005. Thanks Dad!

I bought a house in Jan 2004. I started remodeling in Jan 2005.

This is some of my family in Puerto Rico. I'm the handsome one in the middle.

I snowboard. This is my last trip to Snowshoe, WV! (bad camera)

I had a 1973 VW Super Beetle but sold it. It was my daily driver for a little over 3 years. This is what it looks like now after the new owner spent some money on it to fix it up. Also, I once had a Karmann Ghia! I was silly and sold it :((

I am presently employed as a "Data Warehouse Administrator" ... I am a big fan of Open Source software and the "No Software Patents" cause. Right now, my only pets are Saltwater Fish.