Patrick Lawless:  

My Story... Where do I start? One day when the earth was a smoking, molten rock, a bacteria figured out to reproduce..oh, maybe not that far back.. After high school, I worked for Alcan for a few years, got married to Jo-Anne Muise, and we had a son named Matthew. I had changed to working at Camera Kingston (after I worked for Blacks Cameras), and in the meantime had taken a camera repair course by correspondence. We eventually moved to Mississauga, so I could work as a camera tech for Minolta. After finding out that the guy who hired me had lied right to my face about my future salary, I started looking for other work, and got a job with the Brantford Police Force as a Civilian Forensic Identification Technician (CSI). I got that job because of my photography background. The rest of my training was completed in various courses at the Ontario Police College. I did that for 8 years, during which Jo-Anne and I split up (but not until having two more sons, Eric and Evan), after which I left Brantford temporarily and moved back to Kingston. I worked in a computer school for a while, doing internet tech support and teaching basic internet stuff, before moving back to Brantford. Once back, I worked a variety of jobs, including running a lathe, acting as a shipper receiver, and doing computer data manipulation for a company that handled large mailing lists. My current job is driving a semi-truck, doing mostly flatbed work. This is a physically demanding occupation, which at my age is quite a stretch. Throughout all these various times, I suffered from a strange and debilitating depression, as well as severe fatigue. Over the past 4 years, I have been variously diagnosed with Sleep Apnea, severe hypertension (high blood pressure), D...Expand for more