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I am in my late thirties. I currently reside in Lexington, having just relocated there. It is about 40 minutes from the small town in central Kentucky where I was born and raised. I share a house with a good friend of mine and while I long to be out in the country away from it all, right now I am enjoying the social aspects of music, night life, and the wonders that are offered here that would not be readily available otherwise. I live here with my faithful dog Bitzer.
In the not so recent past, I owned a farm with someone else, where we raised a variety of livestock and occasionally some food crops to support the livestock. Anyway, things change, and despite my yearning for that lifestyle, I am temporarily without it. I still own a few horses, who are currently boarded here and there. I still have connections with several farmers and manage to get just enough of my fix.
Currently I am employed as a Director of Information Technology with a regional group of newspapers. I recently taught a few college level classes at a technical/career college, but am no longer doing that. For those wondering, I do have a degree in computer science. And don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the pure computer science aspect of things, the technical figuring out of things, but at that level one typically doesn’t make the money of one such as a director that is more involved in the business decision making process of the field.
I am fond of telling folks, truthfully mind you, that I spent eighteen years trying to get off the farm and I have now spent eighteen years trying to get back on it and not starve in the process. Now, a caveat for those of you wondering, yes, one can go back to farming with big money and big business, but I want something more then just that (aside from my lack of big money). I want a simple, self sustaining, agrarian based life – at least most of the time that is what I want.
And as I re-read this the up-tenth time myself, I realize that I left off my most exciting little calling card. As a hobby, not only do I own and ride horses, but I use those same horses in medieval jousting. Some of that is full on competitive jousting and other parts of it are just skills of arms from horse back that knights and the like would have used during combat and/or training.
Last Updated: 09/07/08
