Daniel Smith:  

Life I'm pet free at the moment. However, I plan to buy a dog and a cat down the road. School What can I say? I've always been a geek... I loved physics. Workplace Well... I joined the Air Force right out of High school. I didn't want to stick around and go to Rock Valley, and the boredom that Rockford presented me was too excruciating to endure much longer. After ten months in Biloxi, MS, and Hurricane Andrew, I went to Anchorage, Alaska for about three years. I met my ex-wife while I was there and we were married here in Rockford, while I was enroute to Spain. We spent three years over there, and I feel that's what killed our marriage. The first year we were married, I was gone for roughly 10 months, and when I was around, I was working night shift. We never had a chance to get into the groove of marriage and living together. Not to mention that most of the larger cities and towns around American bases are nothing more than constant parties. They don't reinforce the qualities one needs to be happily married. I feel this set the stage for us to be nothing more than strangers who lived together. I got out of the military in 98 and we returned to Anchorage to live. I started working for Arco as a systems consultant (computer geek), and she (psychology degree) went to work for Akheela, as a drug and alcohol counselor at the local high schools. I quickly found myself surpassing the people around me and soon...Expand for more