Jim Hubbard:  

Life Alex is fast approaching 3 1/2 and just started going to preschool part-time. I felt a little sad that first day because I've been staying home to take care of him everyday since he was born and I'm dealing with the idea that I have to share him during the day now. I'm still happily married to the same wonderful woman, Ginger Fisher, I married over 3 1/2 years ago and we get to learn more about each other everyday, in addition to her being a wonderful mother for Alex. We are still living on the ranch here in San Luis Obispo and have more or less adopted to the rural lifestyle; when we visit her family--who all live in the city proper--I am reminded of how good we have it out here. I've shelved the copywriting course for now and am pursuing my freelance writing career in the evenings after Ging and Alex have gone to bed. There is a website called Xomba that allows me to submit articles to their website, after which they put Google Ads around it. The idea is that people will look for the information via the search engines, find my article, then find an Ad they like. When they click it, the money that is generated by the click is split 50-50 with the Xomba Admin. I'm still planning on launching two websites over the summer, too. School Criminy. This was a long time ago and seems like a whole other lifetime from what I am living now. But, I do get nostalgic for those days whenever I listen to some good 80s music, meaning the New Wave music I listened to back then. (Go KROQ!) Regrets: Not going to prom. Favorite subjects: History, Spanish II, Health, Creative Writing. There may be others, but these stand out. College I am currently taking courses from the American Writers & Artists Institute to become a professional freelance copywriter next year. More than likely, I will follow up with Graphic Arts course from the same school. Workplace 7-Eleven: After 10 years in the Navy, it took me a while to want to work for someone else. So, when I moved up to Arroyo Grande six months later, I got a "temporary" job to make some money on the side while I decided what to do next. As it turned out, my employer was someone who rewarded hard work and inititative (so unlike the Navy) and she created a new position for me: Merchandising Manager. I had the opportunity to be on a team that made our store one of the cleanest and most organized stores in the SW Region. My temporary job lasted nearly five years before I ran out of challenges. Loomis: After having worked indoors for the past five years, I decided to find a job that had some time spent travelling. Having known a few customers that were truck drivers, I thought about the romanticism of being on OTR truck driver. But, the one good sc...Expand for more