Bio

This is the third time that I’ve written this bio.

The first time, I wrote a long and emotional tale about how much this website means to me and why you should care. I applied a touch more pathos than the average politician and made myself smell like a rose. But roses have thorns, I’m afraid, and that means that I have to at least be honest about who I am and what I’m doing. So I trashed it. Thankfully, I had the good sense to not put that on my site, even for a minute; I don’t want to come off that way.

The second time I attempted this bio, I tried to be factual. I said what my intentions were, I told you (but not really because it also never made it here) I wanted your views and your support, but it didn’t feel right either. I remember thinking that it felt more like I was giving a bio for an organization than it did that I was giving a bio for myself, and while that is technically true, it just wasn’t the right approach. In reality, I wouldn’t have minded as much if this iteration had made it here. It was at least an honest piece….

I guess I did technically attempt a third time. I didn’t want to scrap the second version of my bio, so I attempted rewriting it a different way, you know, with some of the raindrops and rose petals from the first one. The more I wrote, the more sticky my hands felt, until I realized that pretentiousness was oozing out of my keyboard. I have since applied some hand sanitizer to my laptop to insure it doesn’t persist.

I’ll tell you, this is harder than I thought it was going to be. I write one thing and its fake, another that’s dull, and a third that, while better in some ways, was the absolute worst of them.

But I digress. The whole point of Communear is to provide a real, honest, raw view of my perspective, which is largely just asking questions. I’m a curious duck. I love to laugh and listen to music, and watch TV like every other human being alive. And I just love to poke at things with a stick. In a horror movie, I would be the guy who got killed trying to remove the back of an evil, murderous doll, because I just couldn’t accept that he didn’t have a second power supply. Or I could be the dude trying to translate a Latin manuscript when I should have been running from the terrifying creature in front of me. Seriously though, I’ve always wanted to do a horror film. I think I could play a solid CRAZY, especially the versions of it that have torture dungeons and lemonade stands. There’s just something about that split persona that makes a bad guy fun. I could also play a good victim, but if I do that, I must say I prefer to play a dumbass that gets killed, rather than a thinking person. Not only do these characters have the funniest death scenes, they also get to wear their water wings to tea time, and everyone just “gets it.”

I’ve done a little of everything over my life but if I’m being honest, I’ve spent the better part of the past 25 years working in restaurants. I’ve done it all. Kitchen, serving, bar, dish, etc., but most of it was serving. I’ve done other things too, like hotels and lumber yards and welding contracts. My best stories come from customer service though. MOST of my best stories come from serving but, let me assure you that the absolute top tier stories, the ones you really write home about, without fail, they come from the year and a half that I was working at a hotel.

I’ll get to them, each one of my favorites in whatever order I remember and laugh. That’s what I want Communear to be. Above, I said that it was about rawness and honesty, and it is, but I’ve found that a little dark humor over a situation is like adding freshly ground black pepper to an otherwise dreary meal…..It might suck but at least you can taste the earth. I want to discuss real topics here of different types, and I want you to feel free to speak your mind as well, either on Communear or any of my social medias.

This is where you come in. What are you interested in? What sorts of content do you want to see? I’ll be honest; until I have some direction from you guys, I’m going to shotgun blast and just keep up with views and likes and comments and such because I’ve never done this before. I’ll narrow down my content as I find out from you, through your support, advise me. Generally speaking, I’m going to be contributing interesting things close to where I live because it’s what I have. I’ll do my best to keep it going as much as I can for the things you bring to my attention.

And that’s the point. The word Communear, which I made up, represents completely what I want here. It’s a combination of three words. The first half of the word Communication combined with the last half of the word Engineer, but spelled eAr instead of eEr. I have a passion for communication. It just absolutely fascinates me how easily situations can be manipulated when people are involved, simply by using different techniques. Hence the url. To interpret the word Communear literally, as it is intended, Communication Engineer, always near. This place, friends, is a place to talk about anything.