So this is supposed to be My little spot on the web. My place to talk to the world. As if the world would listen. My place to ‘say’ whatever […]

I guess I should cover my Naval career – it also seriously steered me down the path. I joined in 1984; I went to Boot Camp at the Great Lakes […]

Before we go any further, let me talk about my brothers. First, I have stopped calling them my “Partners”. When you look like I do, and act like I do […]

The Renaissance Festival (Joe you bastard, this is all your fault!) I was hooked! Understand – like a lot of geeks then and now, I was an avid player of […]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show – (Here’s me playing Riff-Raff) As a young and creative man I was desperately in search (though I didn’t know it) of an outlet. Further, […]

How did I get here? How did I get to this Job and career? Let’s go back a bit. Born on a Naval base – Here’s me as a cute […]

My full name is Ronald John Bauman; my Mother (and only my mother) has gotten into the detestable habit of calling me ‘Johnnie’, no matter how much I protest. My […]

It seems that every great piece of literature begins with a snappy opening line; ‘Call me Ishmael’, or ‘It was a dark and stormy night’ – or even ‘I was […]