Jas Qira:  

The year was 1969. I was born on a warm spring day in a tiny little village in the middle of eastern Europe. And then a few weeks ago I turned 39. I gotta tell ya, before the pop-up blocker came along, those classmates.com ads were really beginning to chap my ass. I was starting to hate Tom Hanks. Then at the reunion, I was told that about half of our class was on there. So is it just me or did these past twenty years just fly by? For a few months after high school, I worked a series of forgetful jobs until I could figure out what I wanted to do. I flirted with the idea of going to FIT but instead, ended up joining my high school chum down in Florida to attend a technical institute. Some time later, he moved out to the west coast and I took up playing golf with a few crazy 70 year-old retirees. I paid rent by working various jobs again and working concerts here and there rigging sound. I realized it was time to move on when I started to seriously consider retirement. The problem was that I was only 22. So it was either move up to Atlanta where my girlfriend was attending college or move back to Jersey. A list of pros and co...Expand for more