Doug Barlett:  

Last updated November 24, 2008. I have been married since 1990 with two kids, son 1996 & daughter 2001. Been living in Ohio since 1990, Lowellville 1990-1993, Struthers 1993-1998 and now Lake Milton/Diamond 1998-current. I have been in I/T (Information Technology) since 1985 and currently work at company near Cleveland. We are busy with my son sports since he plays baseball, football, basketball & is in boy scouts. 2008 my daughter started cheerleading for the JV pee-wee football team and my wife is the coach. I do not know how she does it, I could not handle being around 20+ 2nd-4th grader girls 4-5 days a week for 3 months, LOL! My son has a great personality, the class clown, LOL! He used to talk your ear off to anyone, like my mom, LOL! But since he is almost a teenager and like most teenagers, don't yak as much to his parents as he once did, LOL! My daughter has now taken over as the gabbiest person in the family, LOL! My parents are both pasted away. My dad died when I was 23 and mom more recently in 2006. I miss them both! As you can see in my recent picture of myself, I enjoy NASCAR. I started to watch it in 2001 when Dale Earnhardt Sr died in the Daytona 500 race. I like a lot of drivers, especially those who are around my age. I had a 35th anniversary 1999 Ford Mustang which got totaled in 2005 so I found a new 2004 Chevy Monte Carlo Dale Earnhardt Jr addition and someone from work found this picture and put my face on it, LOL! I have been to a few races, Michigan 2003 & Pocono 2005 & 2006 and Daytona summer race in 2008. Eventually I would like to go to Bristol, Charlotte, Chicago, Darlington, Martinsville & Richmond and big daddy the Daytona 500 in February. I have great friends. In early 2003, we started with 4 core couples (Barlett, Donaldson, Mills & Truby) to go out once a month playing games, cards, hot tubing, swimming, dinner & drinks and it became known as our "Game Night". We now have around 5-7 couples which have been introduced into the group and we all try to do something monthly. In 2004 we started having an annual outing of camping for the weekend on my property and we started calling Doug Stock or Doug Feast. We have a great time cooking & eating chicken, pork butt or lamb from the spit, go-carting, swimming, volleyball, horse shoes, corn hole and enjoy our favorite beverages during those hot days, lol! Plus I added a karaoke machine in 2007 to sing the night away, lol! The first year in 2004 we had two Doug Stocks. The first outing was over Memorial weekend and we only spent one night. We had a blast and wanted to do it again for two nights so we had another outing in August. Since then we normally have it during the middle of the summer in July. But this year we are attempted Doug "Fall" Stock in October and had a nice time during the day but at night was another story. It got very chilly Saturday night into Sunday morning. But we survived and all are interested in doing it again next year. I enjoy playing cards, Texas Hold'em poker and Euchre. A great friend of my Chris "Trube" Truby started a Euchre league in 2000. So Trube & I and 6 other good friends met every Wednesday night from October to early April. The first few years we started at Georgia's City Lights bar, then two years at Buzzy's bar in Hickory bowling lanes until they closed, then went to Harry's bar in Sharpsville. 2006-2007 we played Texas Hold'em at our homes. 2007-2008 back to playing euchre again at Harry's again. I am not playing for 2008-2009 season since the drive from Cleveland to PA has taken a toll on me. Especially with these gas prices! I won the league one year during the 2003-2004 season. About once a month I do sub for someone in the league on a occasion and still try to play poker tournaments once a month too. Nothing too serious as we like to play many tournament rounds in one night. Some day I would like to play in a satellite to be in a WPT World Poker Tour or the World Series of poker tournament. When I was dating my wife, I went to church with her by attending Sunday evening service. At first it was just a chance for me to be her for another evening. But when we got married, Pastor Don Ertel who was my wife preacher when she was a teenager and who married us, was preaching at a church near where we lived in Ohio. We started going on occasion until we eventually became very active in the church. Teaching Sunday school classes, involved with the youth group, drove the church's van ministry and held various positions in church. Lead bible studies at the church & our home. I took business meetings minutes & was the treasurer for a few years. I eventually became a deacon & then licensed to preach. I filled in for our pastor when on vacation. I also traveled to other churches who were pastorless to preach their Sunday service. But over the 6-8 years being involved with the church, there have always been bickering and tension among members of the church. Some argued about the preachers or with new members trying the make a difference by tying different things & ministries. Or get mad over what color to pant the Sunday school rooms or nursery. Being a young Christian, I could not believe how much arguing occurs in the church over petty things. It got to a point we had to leave this church. We tried other churches and enjoyed their servi...Expand for more