So, who am I? My name's Joe, and I do
all kinds of weird things, some of which I might write about
on my blog, or I might just create
new pages dedicated to them. Among other things, I'm a
musician, a writer and a somewhat poor amateur photographer. I
also do cross stitch, I have an interest in history, I'm
just starting to get into N-scale model railroading, I
dabble a little bit in woodwork, I enjoy baking, and
I used to be a database programmer for a living. I'm sure
there's a bunch of other crap that I do which I am forgetting
at the moment, but I'll think of them at some point and put
them up here.
I lived in southern Oregon for a
fairly large part of my life, from the time I was 2 until just about 2 years ago, when I was
40. Currently, I'm living in Denton, Texas, just a little north of Dallas. When
I got down here, I found a job with the county's mental
health agency doing database and intranet programming, but that didn't work out
very well. I just didn't manage to learn the web
programming parts of things, and they let me go. So
now I'm working at the same auto dealership as my girlfriend,
doing filing in the morning and driving their
courtesy shuttle in the evening. It's not much of job, but it
pays the bills while I'm trying to figure out what I
want to be when I grow up.
I was married for almost five years to
a lovely lady named Carol, but in the end I think I wound up
being a little to self-involved and too inflexible to make it
work out, and we parted ways in the early part of 2006. I met
another nice lady via the internet about a year later, and we
hit it off pretty well. Well enough, in fact, that she is a
major part of the reason why I moved here to Texas. I was
planning to move somewhere away from southern Oregon anyway,
as I was getting rather into a large rut there, and the
girlfriend provided me with a rather handy reason to move to
north Texas.
So I packed Kala the cat and
everything else up in a Budget rental truck and headed halfway
across the country. That was in April of 2008. Since then,
I've unfortunately not accomplished nearly as much as I would
have liked. I'd really like to find a band to play in, but I
don't particularly care to play in a cover band, and I don't
really want to play in a band that wants to go out touring,
because I'm just getting a bit old for that kind of stuff. So,
if anyone would like to get together, play some original
music, maybe do some recording, but doesn't think they're
going to be the next major hit machine, drop me a line and
let's see what clicks.
I used to play in a band, many years
ago, called West of Arizona. We produced a couple of CDs, but
we probably gave away more copies than we sold, and I think I
have a couple hundred copies still left sitting around in the
storage unit. Since that group broke up, I've been doing not a
whole hell of a lot musical, although I do occasionally get
the bug and do a little bit of composition. A lot of my
compositions are either 80s-sounding synth-pop or
Baroque-sounding instrumental pieces. One of these days, I'll
post a few of my old compositions up to the website. I do have
a MySpace page for some of my little
musical blurbs, but it's been a hellaciously long time since
I've updated it.
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Page created March 5, 2009.
Last updated December 13,
2009.
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