Toms Tech World

After college I made my way in the world by holdng down many different jobs. I realy didn’t know what I wanted to do since the family business was sold because of the giants like Staples and Office Max took over the office supplies and equipment business and crushed the little guys.

So I tried my hand at different careers.

Eventually I stuck with metal refinishing for oil companies which took me all over to many different cities to refinish gas stations. It was while I was doing this that I met my future wife.

We had two boys and we moved to the Eastern Shore of Virginia and ventured into real estate investing. This is when I found that I had a passion for Read more…

Picking up where we left off the other day…

… For example, look at me. I turned out just fine after getting out of prison. Ha! Only kidding!!!  If I ever went to prison, the best thing that could happen to me would to be locked up tight because when my mother found out, she would put a good whoopin on me.

Unfortunately, I lost my mother almost three years ago. She became very ill and committed suicide on September 19th, 2004. It was the most horrible day of my life and I still to this day I cannot get over losing her this way. I don’t think that I ever will or am expected to get over it. It is not something that goes away very easily although I now understand why her life ended this way.

Well enough about that. We can go down that road another time.

Let see, where were we… Oh yeah, I was talking about Read more…

Okay, now on to something else.

We were raised in a middle to upper middle class family and ruled by the firm hand of my mother.  She was a devout Catholic with a traditional Italian background. This is where we learned our morals and values and also learned how to cook some delicious Italian food.

My mother was very good at multi-tasking because she didn’t have much choice. Since my brothers and I were always starting trouble, she was able to cook a large meal for us and in between stirring the pasta and making the meatballs, she found time to sting our butts with the wooden spoon.

Now that is what I call resourceful.

I can tell you that the wooden spoon really did sting and believe me, we deserved it. That was back in the day when you could not sue your parents for a good old spanking. As a matter of fact, I think a swat on the behind was encouraged.

More on wooden spoons and childhood outcomes tomorrow!

(Still working on the tech stuff for really getting this blog going )

Tom