Blake Thornton:  

Life It seems like everywhere I go now I have to write some kind of Bio... I should just write a template bio and save it and paste the same one over and over again. I'll try to do this in a chronological order. June 2002 about 3 weeks after graduating we picked up all our crap (we being my girlfriend at the time Emily Doty) and moved ourselves to a city we'd never seen before and didn't know a soul in. Chicago, IL... where Emily had been accepted to Loyola University. Over the next several years Em worked her butt off at school and I at work. Did pretty well for myself I guess, worked a little at IBM, worked a little at Nortel, then I went to an outfit called Arrow Financial where I really learned my trade. (computers, IT, server admin). After a couple years at Arrow I married Emily (back in kalispell of course), and we went on a fantastic honey moon cruise. After our wedding I spent another year or so at Arrow Financial, during that time they were bought by the Student Loan giant Sallie Mae. I was still learning a great deal, but also starting to realize that they didn't pay me enough compared to my skill-set so I started looking around. Now comes Rexam, this company makes pop cans. I did not make pop cans, I just worked on their servers... some of them anyway. Shortly after starting at Rexam Emily and I bought an absolutely amazing condo on the north side of Chicago, very near lake Michigan. After just over a...Expand for more