Where I am now

Right now I'm living closer to the Canadian border than I ever thought I would be. Being born in the state of Texas I would have bet my life that I would never have ended up in the state of New York. Yet, here I am. In April of 2010 it will be 10 years since I moved up here. Wow... that's a lot of years in one place. Taking into consideration that I've lived all over the eastern side of the United States.

I moved up here in April of 2000 to be close to the woman I met online... yeah.. yeah.. I know, I've heard it many times. Those relationships never work out. But I have met people that met online, got together, married and have lived happy productive lives together. I can't say exactly why it worked out the way it did for me, other than we had the chance to really get to know each other and decided that we stood a class apart from each other. In other words, I just didn't make enough money to meet her idea of security. Funny tho, I hear she finally married a guy that didn't have a job.

It made for an interesting story tho... and in time I'm sure I will get around to including that story with the rest that I will be exposing you all too.

I did, however, meet and marry the woman I am deeply in love with now. Now there's a story worth telling when I get started. We'll be married for 3 years in January. We met at work and still work at the same place. She is an overnight stocker and I work as a member of the inventory maintenance team for a major department store chain.

There are things I would rather be doing for work, but thanks to an accident that took place while I was on active duty in the navy I am limited to the level of physical demands I can put this old body through. So, I work what I can instead of plugging into a system that would be wanting to "try" to enhance my quality of life through surgery and treatments that offer little guarantee of success.