David Bissette:  

Life 1st off... here is my contact information oak_owl at hot mail dt com. If you find this profile interesting, let me know! After graduation, I joined the Army at JUST the right time to be sent to the Gulf War with the 2nd Armored Division, Hell on Wheels. My condolences go out to our troops over there currently. It's not an environment in which I would choose to raise my kids, that's for sure. After three years of enduring various sorts of very extreme weather (see the Military tab above), I left the Army. First freshman day of college at UNCG, I met my future wife, Mitzi. I had to go to Greensboro to meet a girl from Hickory that I liked. She attended St Stephens. After a funky off again-on again relationship, we were married on Sept 29th, 1996 at Castle McCulloch in Jamestown, NC. I managed to cram four years of college into five and graduated cum laude in 1997. We found out Mitzi was pregnant and told the family on Mother's Day, which incidentally was my graduation day as well. We moved back to Hickory where we had a lot of support from her family and mine. Hamilton Williams explaind it to me like this, "Dave, Hickory is like a black hole. Not even LIGHT escapes." Anna Katherine was born November 8th, 1997 at Frye Regional. She was 7 lbs even and was 5 weeks early. It was tough leaving her in the hospital for a week, but when she came home she was healthy. In February of 99, we moved to Wake Forest, right outside of Raleigh. I worked for IBM as a web designer and our 2nd daughter, Katelyn Elizabeth was born August 18th, 2000 at Rex Hospital. She went full term and was 9 lbs, 13 oz. BIG BABY! Sarah Nicole was born September 22nd, 2002 at Raleigh Community Hospital. My life is now the Lifetime Channel! We had a male hamster once but he couldn't handle the estrogen overload and died within 72 hours. Our new female hamster is fairing quite nicely. (Update: the hamster disappeared into the HVAC system of our 50 year old house. I think I heard it for a few nights in the attic. I have not heard it recently.) For those who know my mom, she had several strokes over the past 10 years that have paralyzed her right side. She came to live with us for a few years in Wake Forest. But with Sarah's birth and another stroke, mom needed more care than Mitzi and I could give her. After having lived in a nursing home for several months, she had a final stroke on July 18th, 2003. I was with her when she died, and it was a very odd experience. In September of that year, after having lost my mother and re-examining my priorities, I left IBM to start my own business. I teamed up with a couple named John and Kathy Brewer to start ShipOnSite and the eBay consignment business AuctionsOnSite. After nearly three years of operations, we have 20 ShipOnSite stores across North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. We're always looking for new store owners! Future plans including homesteading our 35 acres farm plot in Denver, NC halfway between Hickory and Charlotte. We're going to build a passive solar house with timber logged and milled from the land, and raise chickens, rabbits and goats. I hope to build cob bungaloes and create a weekend retreat area for people looking to escape the weekly rat race. School I really enjoyed myself in high school and would probably do it over again if I absolutely had to. My outlets were band and scouting, but mostly band. I really enjoyed the comraderie that we shared. I asked one of the young ladies that works for me about the words, "You're like a brother to me." She said that was basically a brush off. Oh well... if I could only go back. I would tell young David not to be such a "Champion of Justice", do your homework, don't join the Army because there's a war coming. College UNCG was somewhat easy for me. Having been in the Army and a war, it was very easy to get motivated for early classes and not complain about the food. I have to tell you about my freshman roommate. The guys name was Randy an...Expand for more