Personal Info

I grew up on a farm and still reside about a 1/2 mile from home. In addition to corn, soybeans and wheat, we grew vegetables that were marketed in the Detroit and Lansing areas. My father always said that you couldn't make with just grain crops on the farm anymore so the vegetables were his second job. They were also a tremendous amount of hand labor - which I didn't care for. This set me on a course of finding 'my' second job and is what led me ultimately to programming.

In 1988 due to my father's health problems, I took over the only remaining vegetable crop that they were growing which was tomatoes. This was when I scaled way back on my programming interests. We raised the tomatoes for 7 years and continued farming through the 2005 season.

My wife Sherri owns a barber shop in the area that she started in 1984. We have 3 children - Elizabeth, Aaron and Rebecca.