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When I am Dead, I'd rather
have people ask why I have no monument rather than why I have one.
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Well I was born in St Peter's Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. My parents moved to Bound Brook NJ from Johnstown PA. When I was still very young we moved up the hill to Chimney Rock Road in Martinsville, NJ which is were I spent 7 or 8 years of my life. Then we moved to South Plainfield NJ where I went to school and graduated from South Plainfield High School. During this time I met my Wife. We got married on June 29, 1991 and I gained an additional family. (Barbara's Family) When I graduated from high school I went to DeVry Technical Institute in Woodbridge for Electronics. My parents helped to put me through School while I worked a Shop Rite in Edison as a bagger and anything else that needed done. When I graduated from DeVry I got a job with a company called Total Tec Systems. I worked 7 years as a Computer Repair Technician. One of my dreams was to work for Walt Disney World in Florida so I got a job transfer to Florida (to help out down there for awhile) so my wife and I moved to Florida. She got a job working in a hotel .While I was still working for Total Tec, a position opened in Walt Disney World. The job started out to only be a temporary position as a mechanic .There must have been 50 people hired for this project and as it turned out I was the only one to make the cut and stay on as a mechanic. (This can happen when you truly love your job and that I did). While I was there I won the "Partner in Excellence" Award (this is the highest award presented by Walt Disney) thanks to my co-workers and supervisors. Out of 45,000 employees at the time, I was within the top 1800 employees. Again let me tell you I LOVED that job and the people I worked for were some of the finest people on this earth. They understood that there was no "I" in the word "Team". While living in Florida (loved it) my wife told me about this organization called Give Kids the World. My wife helped out there from time to time as a volunteer and told me they helped families visit Orlando as one of their last wishes. Sorry to say I had to come home to New Jersey for family reasons. While home I figured I would open a candle shop in Flemington called B & R Candles . My Dad and I fixed up the inside and opened for business in November. The first six months were awful and if it were not for Rich Gawlik of ARS Data (he built our first website) we would not have stayed in business as long as we did. Well we were on the Internet and the orders started coming in. The first year we did OK but nothing special. The next year we doubled our sales from the last year and things were looking better The Third Year Sales did not change and the Forth Year we lost money so we closed up our shop and now we only sell products over the Internet. During these 4 years, I learned alot like how to build Web sites (with help from CPR) you are looking at one I built now. What it takes to own and operate a retail shop and the list does go on and on. I started up a new company called Shoot A Friend where we sold pictures on line. This turned out to be a major flop. As I would say "O WELL" pick up the pieces and try again. And now you know a little about me and now. If you have any questions
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What
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