Matt Jones:  

ame a Production Coordinator for a web-firm in Evergreen. Then switched back when it became obvious I could make more money in the trades with less overtime and less hassle. We ended up in North Carolina for a stint, and had to say good-bye to my wife's parents. They weren't... they weren't good. Not all mothers are angels and not all grandparents are sweet. We came back to Oklahoma because I had family here and we set about establishing ourselves. I own a small painting and decorative cabinet finishes company that I've had some success at. I usually do lunch once a week with my sales reps, and work most weekends. We're steadily growing into better and more expensive work. My wife takes my son to therapy twice a week, and he's doing well in kindergarten, even though he is a year or two behind. Things are interesting, if still a bit dramatic. My folks are both mentally problematic, and unable to work. We help them out when we can. I had my father working for me doing what he could do, but his back finally got too bad: two bad disks, nerve damage. He's writing a novel now. In my spare time I painted portraits for a while, built a few guitars that I gave away, and picked up the alto sax again. I even wrote about half of a decent romance novel over this last winter when work was slow. I ran out of spare time and never finished it. I've been thinking lately about moving back to Denver. I know you can never go back, but it would be nice to feel like there's some continuity to my life; other than entropy I mean. I miss my friends from high school, and wish I'd kept in touch, although it may be best that I hadn't. There were times when things were very tough. I'd have been hard pressed to be a reasonable facsimile of a person. Although anyone who knew me would probably agree that I was always fairly hard pressed to be human.