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	Recently	I've been working for RBA (Rudall Blanchard Associates) for a while now as a Consultant, Database expert, Network Guru, programmer, dishwasher, you name it.
	Before That	I spent two years working at Compaq (not HP) in Houston, designing and testing programs for the company's Internet Commerce division. Before that I was an Intranet specialist at Exxon Production Research in Houston. That means I did pretty much everything; documents (wrote them, edited existing ones, or cajoled others into writing them for me), and then had the fun of putting everything up on to the Exxon Intranet site. I got to use all sorts of great Web tools, and I did a great deal of on-the-job learning (but let's not tell them that!)
	Musically	I started taking piano lessons in 1968 at the age of seven, and began performing in recitals the following year... as best I can remember. More recently, I was an on-call pianist with the Galveston Symphony and the Clear Lake Symphony. What that means is that when they had a piece that required a piano in a non-Soloist-Up-Front kind of way, the conductor would give the piano parts to my (now ex-)wife Lynn (assistant concertmaster) at the first rehearsal, who would bring them home to me to learn in time for the concert. I performed with the orchestras on such pieces as Copland's 'El Salon Mexico' and 'Rodeo', Stravinsky's 'The Firebird Suite', Prokofieff's 'Lt. Kije Suite', and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony plus pop stuff by Percy Faith, Richard Hayman, and so on. Oh, yes, and the yearly Christmas concerts. It was an absolute blast; the fun of performing with an orchestra without all of the pressure that comes with soloing.