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| Your personal background. |
| My life has always revolved around music in one form or another. I began playing the violin at age 5 and, by age 13, made the switch from Classical to Country music. (When a boy is that age, Classical just isn't "cool" any longer!!) I was AZ state champion fiddle player in 1990 & 1991 and, shortly after, began to perform music for a living. I continued on for 10 years, traveling through out the U.S., making a very good living, performing in venues from large Country dance halls ( Like Billy Bob's in TX ) to stadiums, and many others in between. The final year that I was on the road, I held the position as fiddle player for one of the top five Country music artists in the nation ( I'm not going to mention his name here. Sorry! ). I had to make the difficult choice 6 years ago to give up the music biz ( the traveling part, anyway. I still do studio work and play for my own enjoyment), as I decided that it was more important to be home for my two children ( they're 12 & 15 now ). As a result of the life style that I led, the girl that I began dating and fell in love with while we were still both 18, who became my wife and the mother of my children, left me after we had been together for 16 years, 10 of them as husband and wife. She is a great mother and a wonderful human being. It was the fact that she has the personality type that says every thing is either black or white, that made it hard on her. Very intelligent, yet simplistic in her view of the world, and I think that all of those years of me living the life style that I did was just more than she could deal with or understand. I have no regrets, though, as I was able to live my dream and experience something and see things that only a select few ever get to. I believe that being a musician is the reason that I have always loved math and science. After all, music is math. It's all about rhythm and octaves, 3rds and 5ths and 7ths and so on. It's been proven that school kids who play a musical instrument do better academically, as a whole, than those who do not. Anyway, I especially love anything to do with radio, too, such as Amateur (Ham) radio, DX'ing (listening to scanners, shortwave ), propagation and radio theory, etc. I also enjoy reading up on quantum physics / mechanics, string theory, and so on. It just fascinates the heck out of me. After all of that being said, the most important thing in my life now and will be until I draw my last breath, is my children. It's funny. When I was around 16 years old, I remember saying to a friend at the time that I would never want to be a dad. I think that I even made a bet with him that by the time I reached 30, I would not have any kids. Boy, was I ever wrong!! When my son was born (the 15 year old) and I held him for the first time, he looked at me (he was 2 weeks late, hence he could see somewhat) and I saw pure, honest to goodness love there like I had never seen or known before. It seemed that at that very moment, every thing in the universe made perfect sense. It felt like I had seen God himself. A miracle. And I felt the exact same way when I first looked into my daughter's eyes 2 1/2 years later. Nothing diminished. The feeling was just as incredible! I adore my children to this day. We always hear about teenagers and how bad they are and all of the trouble that they get into, but I think that it's just hype perpetrated by media who focus on the negative minority because it makes for a "good" story. But I believe that the majority of teens are like mine, and their parents, more like me. Sure, kids stumble from time to time, but that's how one learns about life. And it's our job to be there to help them along the way, at least until they can take care of themselves. I must have done something pretty good in another life as I am truly blessed to have been granted the privilege of guiding through to adulthood these two wonderful human beings. And that is the point that my life is at now and I guess I'll leave it at that. (Wow! I didn't think that I was going to rattle on so when I began writing this! ) |
| Your opinions about Einstein@Home |
| As I stated above, I have always been interested in math & science. Especially anything having to do with the study of gravity. I believe that we have only scratched the surface in our knowledge of gravitational properties and how bodies interact in time and space. I sense great things to be revealed in the not so distant future. |
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