I did a search tonight of one of my old websites (about a year before acquiring brockp.com), and I found a brief autobiography from 1998.  Eh, why not share it and see how my 22-year-old brain worked?    And yes, several things have changed since then.

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Just a quick note from my constantly-updated site.  If you view the site on a mobile phone, it should now be optimized for those browsers.

Also, check out the photo page for pictures of the Alabama Ghostbusters.

I know I always apologize for the lack of updates, but I’m swamped right now.  I’ve got three or four different freelance gigs I’m working on, plus projects for ALGB and Ghostbusters Fans.  Add being a husband, dad and working my real job, and you see why I don’t do much of this anymore.  Hopefully things will start to slow down in the next month or so, and I can go back to my “Life by the Numbers” series here.

I think I’ve been a little too open about my life on Facebook and Twitter.  I have alienated a lot of people with my political views, and a lot of people have alienated me with their venom and obscenities about my alma mater.

That’s the tough part of having friends who went to and/or cheer for the rival school.  I can’t stand seeing people on either side of the fence bash the other.  Unfortunately, I let it get to me because I do have a tremendous amount of love for both.

So, to fix this, I have shut down my tweets from the outside world (unless I approve you to see them), and I have shut out anyone who has anything bad to say about either school from my Facebook wall and status updates.  Even if you’re a close friend in real life, the moment you bash a school I went to/work for, you’re done.  I even block your updates from my news feed.  I feel that’s nicer than simply unfriending you (it lets you know I still like you in real life).

That’s not the only criteria.  I’m blocking a lot of Facebook access simply because too many people see too many things.  One of the reasons I got out of TV news is too many people knew who I was.  I honestly got tired of being recognized and wanted to slip back into obscurity.  Instead, I opened up for the world on those two platforms, and now it’s causing me to have ill feelings toward people I wouldn’t have in the first place.

If you want to see what’s going on (in a more controlled manner), then keep checking this blog.  I don’t update much, but I’ll be putting up only things I want everyone to see … which isn’t a lot.

Honestly, I’m doing this to see if I get a lot of hits on a certain phrase again.  Back on January 25, I titled a post “25 random things about me.”  My site was flooded with people using search engines looking for that phrase.  Thank you, Facebook.

It’s amazing to see when you post little things how many people are curious to peek into your life.  Why they chose this blog when they were searching for that phrase is beyond me, but thanks for the traffic!

I’m going to try something different than making you register.  Please disregard and don’t worry about registering for now.