Mike's Personal Site

Welcome to my web site!

Howdy,

    I created this site with Microsoft FrontPage 2000 for a class assignment. I'm going to use it to let you know a little about me.

    Well, that's me. I was born in Garden Grove, California. When I was 2yrs. old I moved to Houston, Texas where I grew up. I moved around to several different parts of Houston over the 22yrs. that I lived there. My first job was as a residential electrician. It was hard work in the South-Texas weather so I only stayed at that job for 4yrs, just long enough to get my journeyman's license so that I could secure a job as an electrician anywhere in the country. After that I had a brief job as a boll weevil trapper. FYI, a boll weevil is a small little bug that eats cotton. Just about every state in the nation has successfully cured their boll weevil problem, except Texas! My job was to ride around in a government-owned Dodge 4x4 and count bugs and try not to get shot by the farmers who wish we weren't there on there property. Eventually, the program was shut down by a court order. Oh well, on to the next job.

    Hmm, something new, something adventurous, something challenging. Why not a truck driver? That's what I did. I went to see a recruiter and I signed on with Stevens Transport Inc. . They sent me to school and I started driving for them in less than a month. It was hard going out with a trainer for a month, my trainer was kind of a jerk, but he was a good person. I eventually went solo and had a lot of fun. I've been to Quebec, Ontario, almost all 48 states, and I've spent a good bit of time near the Mexican border in Laredo. I loved driving a truck but, as silly as it might sound, I was really missing my computer (OK, my friends too). So I only stayed with the trucks for a couple years. I tried to find a local driving job in Houston but it never did work out. I wish there were some way that I could drive trucks and do computer stuff.

    I had a hard time finding work after driving and I spent some time delivering with Domino's. I had fun at domino's and I made some good friends. In search of a better life I eventually ended up with a new friend that asked me to help out in his fence company. Sounds like a lot of hard work, huh? Well, it was but I had fun and I got along real well with my boss. He taught me a lot of great things.

    I eventually decided to move to Arizona to be closer to my family. After sitting around on my duff for a while I got into gear and got back into school. I'm working to get a Batchelor Degree in Internet Information Systems, which is why I'm now boring you with the details of my life. FYI, computers will rule the future! Get to school and learn everything you can. I wish someone had told me that a long time ago.

Well, thanks for stopping by. I'm going to look into adding a guest book so I can get some feedback from those who visit but, until then, just enjoy. Check out the rest of my site and have a good life.

Virtually yours,

    Mike

This page was last updated on 11/17/00.