Ron Myers:  

Life Okay, my bio, huh? Let's see... After High School I worked for a popular restaurant in the St Louis area (my day job) and played guitar and did vocals for a couple of local bands. I toured (well, played bars in 12 states) with one for about 18 months until internal conflicts and down right stupidity broke it up. I came back to St Louis and went to work for North American Van Lines. I was with NAVL off and on for 4 years, running the road and doing local stuff. At 25 I got tired of being out of town for 8 months at a time, so I got on as a Manager for another restaurant chain in the St Louis area, where I met my future wife, Kathy. We were married in 1987. In 1989 I went to work for a vending company, doing route sales. In 1990 my daughter Helena was born, the most astounding and perfect thing that had ever happened to me...my daughter is an amazing person, and the person that taught me that unconditional love is possible. Kids are like that, I guess; they show us things about ourselves we never knew. Okay, back to the chronology, eh? In 1995 I left the vending company and went to work for yet another restaurant chain as a meat cutter; steady work, but not very rewarding intellectually. In 1996 we bought our first computer, and I discovered something about myself: I'm pretty much a natural born techno-geek and hacker...we hadn't had the thing for 3 weeks when I'd already had it completely taken apart and put back together, running better than it had before...it became pretty clear that this is what I wanted to do, so I enrolled in an associates program for programming languages. I got a job in the IT field first as a hardware tech, then a network tech, then a network admin, and finally as a programmer/systems analyst. I've been doing tech stuff steadily since then, though there were some very lean times after the dot com bubble burst. During those lean times the second most astounding and perfect that ever happened to me happened, and my son Zach was b...Expand for more