Introduction To My Blog

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Introduction

  My name is Jack Bombardier, and this is my new blog.  I haven't done this before, so it may not have a lot of bells and whistles to start with, but presumably I'll get there.
  A quick Bio - I am originally from Massachusetts, and moved to Colorado when I was twenty-five.  Since I'm now fifty-two, I consider myself a "semi-native" Coloradan since I've lived slightly over half my life here. From 1984 until 2002, I was a Field Engineer traveling all over the US and the world working in the hi-tech world of design workstations.  Then for my next company I worked on drum scanners and imagsetters in the electronic pre-press industry, and then in my final position I was in the semiconductor business working with equipment used in the manufacture of computer chips. It was a fun ride while it all lasted, and I got to see many places that would have only been pictures in a magazine for me.

  But then late in my career, I met a Colorado mountain girl and that changed everything.  Travel was no longer about going to somewhere interesting, but more about who I was leaving behind to get there, and that took a lot of the fun out of travel.  When I got laid off in 2002, right after finishing the most productive business trip of my life, we stuck with our plans to get married that fall and moved to the mountains a couple of months later.

  My wife Terena is brilliantly smart as well as physically hot, and our original plan was to start a dog trainers school. She created a business plan that won the award for Best Business Plan handed out by the SBA that year, and we were on our way.  For my part, I was looking to create a business combining two of my two passions, fishing and rafting, by starting a guiding business, focused on doing trips along the Colorado River which is where we moved.  Ten years later, that is basically what we're doing.  We moved from our original venue that we were leasing to a place a mile upriver that we own, and the focus of her work shifted more towards boarding and training dogs than to training people, but we are basically "living the dream". Of course the "dream" has turned out to have a lot more twists and turns than we could have imagined back in 2002, but navigating the unexpected is what constitutes living.  A life that merely follows some predetermined script or series of bullet points would not be one worth living.

  So what will my blog will be about?  Basically, it will be about doing things, and then writing about it.  I've always been a Doer, and I've always liked to write. So much in the way that I've combined fishing and rafting into a Float Fishing Business, I'm going to combine an active lifestyle and a knack for stringing words together into a Blog.  Or at least that's the idea.  Whether it will be something that anyone but myself will want to read I can't say.  But the things that I'm interested in that I may want to write about at some point include (but are not limited to) fishing, skiing, hockey, driving, sex, travel, music, as well as popular (and unpopular) culture.  I also spend far too much time wondering about the nature of what we perceive to be reality, and why we are here, and whether we are spiritual beings made up of tiny little balls of energy that transcend space and time, or just meat. 

  I hope that over time, these blogs will be funny, insightful, informative, and profane, maybe all at the same time. I promise that I'll try to never be boring.  Life is too short and fleeting to waste time on being bored, there will be plenty of time for that when you're dead (or maybe not).

  You can find out more about my fishing operation at www.confluencecasting.com.