Brian Adams:  

Know what an ISO is? More than one person has said I should write a book about my life. Lucky for you there isn't enough room here. I'll give you the condensed readers Digest version. But I have to start at the end and talk about my beautiful wife. She's a Critical Care Flight Nurse; she lands at crash scenes in a helicopter and saves lives. I married WAY up and outta my league. See, I saved some acid from back in the day... Seriously though, she says she loves me. Sometimes. She puts up with me, that's what counts. Ok so, before her, I married the 1st girl that gave me the time of day. She had 2 boys. They both are long out of school, one has a great job, he's a manager at Schneider, the trucking co. Orange truck with the black road on it? Pics of him and his available. I'm rather proud of him. Beautiful 8 year old girl that I'm honoured to call my granddaughter even though he's a step son. They still call me Dad and the last time I checked my wallet I felt like a Dad. (He hasn't borrowed in a decade, but it makes me laugh when I say it). He's 31, his younger brother has 4 more years out of 12 at the State pen. He calls me Dad too but mostly he calls me collect. He tried to follow my footsteps I guess, but I think he out ran me. Guess the 1st one rebelled against me. There came a time in my life when I was ready to grow up but their mother wasn't interested, so we hung it up. The boys aren't too close to her either. Kinda sad. The time line. As if I remember. Late 11th grade I ran away from home, the mother caught up, said I could live with the older brother in New York. A lie. So with a little work I got kicked out of the house instead. And school. After several jobs as a bus boy I took to steeling. B&E's are so much more profitable. 'Cept every time you find a good stereo you have to sell it for drugs. I never got too hard core, but I did do everything from coke, to crack. Problem is, Breaking and Entering is a felony. I got lucky and was sentenced to only 9 months. That was my 3rd time, for a total of 15 months. This last time a man said I could get out of my cell for awhile if I wanted to study for the GED. Said to take the test so I could see where I needed to study. I passed. Back to the cell... Gave up on the steeling gig and got married the 1st time. (rhymes with worst time, notice that?) A few years on Welfare and General assistance, then a job as a used car reconditioner was handed to me. Kept that a few years, moved to a factory job, kept that 8 years... Along about '87, I'm working at the factory, making a reasonable living and looking for a hobby. I found a computer. Took to it too. Got into the old BBS world and learned about networking and building and fixing computers. Got to be friends with a prosecuting attorney that remembered me. Fellow computer geek and all is what we had in common. He said to blow the factory job and try working for a consul...Expand for more