Ken Balough:  

My Life Summary I was not very popular during my high school years, I had a few friends and all of us were considered outcasts (at least by my perception). As I entered my teens, I developed a general resentment for the authority structure in life and society which soon turned into teenage rebellion. I dropped out of N.H.S. after 10th grade. My folks moved to sunny Florida and I became a road dog hippie (hitch-hiking my way 'round America). I smoked lots of reefer and ingested a variety of natural and pharmaceutical substances considered taboo by main stream America. At age 18 I totally freaked out on LSD and became a born again Christian. With this "twist in the road", I took a much needed hiatus from my pseudo-psycho-nautical adventures; which helped my brain functions (a little), 'Got married to Flash (Deborah Adams) and we moved to a Christian commune in Bonita Springs, FL called Master's Outpost (I fathered a baby girl (Rachel Leah) in 1975, moved to Austin, Texas, moved back to FL in 1977 and got divorced. I back slid, became a single dad, renewed my faith, obtained my GED, developed a drinking problem, got married to Glenda (a super neurotic woman - CRAZY!!!!), inherited good credit with my 2nd wife, fell into the American trap of "just say charge-it!", went deep into debt, stayed drunk for a few years, went into rehab, got divorced again, got drunk again, married Jane Essex (3rd wife), got drunk again, fathered a 2nd baby girl (Kenzie Lynn) in 1990, laid off from my employment with AT&T in 1995 (longest job I ever held), had a mid life crisis, the bank foreclosed on our house, I quit wearing a watch and fruit-of-the-looms. I sat on my ass for a couple of years and when I decided to rejoin the world of employment again I could only get hired for low paying temporary jobs. We down sized and moved into a small 2BR duplex in 1999. I drank an unreasonable amount of alcohol between the ages of 22 and 40 (part of my job required traveling all over while being wined and dined by suppliers) it was tough job - but somebody had to do it. I was diagnosed as bi-polar at age 35 and diagnosed with A.D.D. in 2002 which provided a great amount of retrospective insight into my first 48 years. All things considered, I have been relatively healthy so far. I have always had this aversion to hard physical labor; I never liked work in my youth and still don't care for it much. I always thought that there were "doers" and "thinkers". I never was much of a "doer" so I figured I must be a "thinker". Since I wasn't born into great wealth I knew that I would probably have to work for a living the rest of my life. I got my first real job after getting married at age 21 making printed circuit boards. I learned my way through...Expand for more