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You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their lives, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute! Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating THAT PERSON? Since when?" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes. Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! [Or don't, or post in comments, as you like.] Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-word answers seldom help anyone out.
FIRST NAME: David AGE: 41 LOCATION: Cibolo, TX (near San Antonio where I work) OCCUPATION: Senior Lead Consultant for Catapult Systems. I used to manage the SharePoint Practice for San Antonio, but now I am in charge of Federal Bids. So, I read bunches of e-mails and try to figure out if we should bid on various projects. PARTNER: Moonsinger and I have been married for over 19 years, dating for 21 and known each other for 23. Its great to find someone who completes you. KIDS: In October of 2000 we were given the gift of the most beautiful little girl in the world…Rhiannon. She has gotten more beautiful and wonderful with age. Keeping her in books is proving to be the most challenging part of raising her (so far…she hasn’t discovered boys yet). Then in late 2005 we were surprised to learn that we would be a family of four. Alastair joined us in April of 2006 and he has brought even more joy to our lives. I am lucky to have such a family. BROTHERS/SISTERS: My oldest brother is Charlie. He is known for his sense of humor and always sends me a funny B-day card. He is a Vet working for a global poultry company. Ed is my just older brother and was my idol growing up. He is a lawyer for the FBI. PETS: None currently. We lost our dog Hunter in October (http://dbroussa.livejournal.com/556365.html). He was a great dog and we miss him. We are gonna wait on another dog until Al is a bit older. 3 THINGS GOING ON IN MY LIFE: - Work – when we moved back to SA it was for me to take a job where I am in much more of a management role. As a result, it is much more difficult for me to compartmentalize work away from my life as it tends to consume all my time. Its proving to be a tough balance and I am not sure how it will get resolved. I recently changed my role a bit and I am still figuring out how that will affect me.
- Family – Moonsinger and I still do a lot of RPing between the two of us. Rhiannon is still in Karate (though her interest in waning as she appears to have hit a progress wall). I am not sure if she is still getting benefit from Karate anymore. Al is making huge progress with his speech therapy and is such a joy to have around. We recently got a second working car and Moonsinger is picking up the kids from school (and taking Al). This is likely going to make out lives much easier
- Friends – We try to get together with friends every weekend. It doesn't always happen, but we try. I was running two D&D games (both 4th ed, which I rather like). One is set in Eberron (and is a continuation of a 3.5 Eberron game I was running for the same crew), and the second is in a world of my creation with a nasty Human-centric empire to the South of the area of the adventure. The humans that live in the Kingdom of the Three Rivers were expulsed from their lands to the south by the Empire about a hundred years earlier. To the north the Elves and other Fae live in the forests and gave the humans leave to settle the plains. Now the humans are growing and starting to infringe on the forests. This has almost lead to war between the Elves and the Humans when the Empire strikes from the South. Its a neat political drama that the PCs aren’t seeing a ton of (mostly because I appear to have problems being creative currently…see item #1).
PARENTS: My parents just celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary on Nov 25th. My Dad just had his knee replaced (well almost a year ago), and my Mom is a Type II diabetic. As they grow older I dread the phone call that I know will come someday. My second set of parents (In-Laws) have been another huge blessing in my life. They love me like a son, and I love them like my parents because I am, and they are. CLOSE FRIENDS: My closest friend is Moonsinger, outside of her, my closest friend is Paul Arnold. He and I have been friends since I was in college. Mack whom we knew many years ago in the Cam and reconnected with when we moved back to SA has become a great friend. It helps that we live about 2 miles apart and our kids are very close to the same age. Andrew, Jess, and Cat are also great friends. We have known Andrew since the late 90s and he has been a steady and loyal friend. I have numerous other friends, but these are the ones that I spend the most time with right now.
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So the Governors race (primary) has started to get underway. There are four major candidates running in two parties (which is a big difference from last election with four major candidates in four parties). The main people are: - Rick Perry – incumbent winner in 2006 with about 35% of the vote in a four way race
- Kay Bailey Hutchison – current US Senator originally was going to resign, but has decided to stay in the Senate through the primary
- Bill White – Mayor of Houston and considered a “moderate” Democrat
- Kinky Friedman – came in fourth last go round as an independent and running now as a Democrat.
There were some others who were running on the Democrat side, but when Bill White announced, they dropped out. Overall this field leaves me a slightly bad taste in my mouth. I flat out refuse to vote for Rick Perry and would likely even vote for Bill White over him for Governor. His conduct after the primary in 2006 through the general election was so disgusting that he permanently lost my vote. His initial ads in the race this year have all been attack ads against Kay Bailey and that has further alienated me. Kay Bailey has run a few ads that have been positive. Her only dig (so far) against Gov Perry is that she uses his quotes praising her in her ads. Bill White has done a decent job as mayor of Houston. The one thing that he did that I was opposed to (off the top of my head) was instituting the Safe-Clear program, thought to his credit the program was modified when the citizens yanked out the pitchforks and torches. However, since I didn’t live in the city of Houston I didn’t get too fired up about someone that I had no say in electing. I have seen much worse as a mayor (the current mayor of San Antonio comes to mind). Kinky was the person that I voted for last election. I am sorry that he didn’t do all the well in the election as I liked some of the things that he campaigned for. Unfortunately, he has turned out to be more of a chameleon/politician then most regular politicians. In ‘06 he was on the radio in Houston a fair number of times. The stations that he was on were conservative in nature and he talked a good Libertarian/Conservative platform. A bunch of getting the gov’t out of our lives and letting Texans do what we wanted to. A few months ago I was in Austin as Kinky was getting ready to announce his run in ‘10 and I heard him on a Liberal station. Here he was spouting every Liberal talking point and how he, as Governor, would use the gov’t to solve all of our problems. So, Perry is a non-starter (for a number of reason, but first and foremost because of how he screwed property owners in Texas with his property tax rebate in ‘06 and using that as a reason that he would not reduce the property tax appraisal cap from 10% to 5%. Sure, my taxes went down…for a year…by year two I was paying what I had been paying two years prior and in year three I was paying more. By year four I had paid back the “rebate” and then some. All without the mill rate ever increasing. Since Perry is vehemently opposed to realistic property tax reform, violated his campaign promised on border security, and now feels that instead of further lies about what he will do as Governor he will just attack Kay Bailey…Perry = FAIL. Should Perry win the nomination from the GOP, then I will consider voting for White. Sorry Kinky, after hearing your pandering to the far left I feel that I cannot support you anymore.
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