Captain Squishy and Crew

      After being laid off from the car rental company, it had taken me a few months to find a job. However, I did find one, and it paid better than the one I had lost. Fast forward to the point where I had been working at that job for a couple of years. Little Ducky was now 2 and a half years old, and the year was 2003. For those 2+ years, my world (and my wife's world too) revolved around that sweet little girl. She was incredibly well-behaved. If you were trying to do something, like cook dinner, for example, you could sit her in her bouncy seat with a "Baby Einstein" video or something that she liked playing. As long as she could still look up and see you, she was perfectly fine to just chill there, kicking her feet, and seeing how hard she could bounce that bouncy seat. Even if she couldn't see you, a lot of times she didn't seem to mind. (And no, we did not let the T.V. raise our daughter before anyone starts thinking that. But we didn't believe that we ...

Back in 2000, my wife and I were still in our first year of marriage. I was working for a car rental company, and my wife was working for a freight forwarder.  At the car rental company, I worked Monday through Friday. However, they had a rule that one weekend per month, we had to all come in on Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to noon.  On one particular Friday, just before that month's chosen Saturday to work, we were called into the big boss's office and informed that the company we worked for had been bought out by a larger car rental company. Because of this, we were told that our entire office would be laid off in a few weeks.  I felt my heart fall into my stomach. My mind started raising about what I would do. Where would I go? I needed to find a job urgently. I'm married now. I have bills. I need gas money.....and a wife who likes shopping! Something had to be done!  As luck would have it, that very next morning, I not only had to get up and go to work for 4 hours.......

    As a young man in my early twenty's, I knew VERY little about computers. The internet was still relatively new, and only just beginning to really take off.  I worked for a furniture store, delivering very heavy furniture pieces for a living.....and the pay was less than what is today considered "minimum wage".  Every day I walked out of work so drenched in sweat that I looked like I had stepped into a shower with my clothes on. I went through deodorant like a man who has been lost in the desert for days, finally getting a drink of water.  One day a friend of mine called me up. She worked for a courier company and they had a job opening.  She asked me "Would you like to get paid a much larger amount, to drive around an air conditioned company car, and pick up and deliver PAPERWORK....JUST PAPERWORK..... between various shipping companies, airlines, Trucking companies, and the U.S. Customs office?"......"oh, and did I mention they had insurance benefits?...

  Hello, I figure that is the simplest and best way to get this started. A simple greeting to begin getting to know each other. If you are reading this, then it's nice to have you join me and my family on this little journey. Thank you for coming by. Feel free to stay a while. I am a 47 year old husband, and father of 3 (grown, or nearly grown) children. It is my hope that each of them will contribute to this website going forward, so that they can all put their own mark on this. As for me, I was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and currently live with my family in a small town in Alabama. My oldest child, Ducky, is my 21 year old daughter. (Just to be clear, Ducky is not her real name. I will not be using any of their real names for security reasons. Each of my family members have chosen their own names for this purpose). She (Ducky) is my artist. She has my sense of humor, which should scare you all. :) She's quick with the one line come backs, and sees the humor in the mo...