I was originally going to write a brief bio on myself to the tune "A Day In The Life" (the second Paul-sung verse) by the Beatles but it proved too difficult. So here goes:

I haven't seen snow since I was five, when I moved to Hawaii with my family because my father was in the Navy. He got stationed from a small naval base town in Connecticut to Pearl Harbor, where it never does snow.

I grew up in three areas of central/leeward Oahu: Pearl Harbor, Pearl City, and Waipahu. I'm an only child, but I consider music and movies as older siblings.

I associate the crash of the space shuttle Challenger with the taste of toothpaste and orange juice because I was at the breakfast table when I heard it on the news.

I'll tell you one thing though: try not to work retail. I worked in a record department for a major retail store chain at a mall for close to six years while in high school and college. With my love of music, you'd think that working amongst the tapes and CDs would be heavenly. In fact it was a small, private hell because I was surrounded with so much music that it killed me when I couldn't buy them all. Plus, people can be so...aggravating, especially when you're on the ass end of a seller/buyer predicament.

I wanted to be an Electrical Engineer. So did my father. I mean, he wanted me to be an engineer. So at the University of Hawaii, I regestered to be an EE major. Looking back on it all, maybe the fact that I couldn't get an engineering class my first two semesters was a harbinger of things to come. I couldn't get into any intro engineering classes because there were so many potential EE majors.

When I finally did manage to get into my first engineering-related class, frankly, it kicked my ass. It just wasn't for me. Maybe there would've been more money for me in the future, but it wasn't something I found myself enjoying.

To make an already long story short, I found my calling in journalism and radio. This is by way of accounting, photography, and audio engineering. But that's another story for another time.

Now I produce radio commercials for a living. I put hard work into something that usually makes people turn the dial, especially when all they want to hear is music. Some days it feels like I'm a robot: I get the script, I copyedit it, I voice it, I produce it, and then it's on to the next one ad nauseum until 5pm. But some days, like when a class of elementary school kids come by the radio station on a fieldtrip and I show them what I do, I see the sparkle in their eyes and hear the excitement in their questions when they ask stuff like, "You do this for a living? This has to be so fun!"

I'm currently engaged to Jessica, a woman I love dearly, and who -- inside and out -- is the most beautiful person I know and have ever known. You'll see her name pop up in these pages often because, well, besides my own opinions, hers matter the most to me.

I hope to write more later in life, maybe after my career in radio, whenever that ends. That's one of the reasons I have this weblog, to sort of test the waters with how far my writing and observations can take me, and wondering if it's a place worth traveling to.