Jacob

this is me, a 40 year old divorced dad of a teenager. Life has been quite interesting and I’m grateful for a media outlet to share some insights of my life and some credible stories and creative work.

For now I will say this …I’m not brad Williams or Peter Dinklage lol

Where to begin, (the beginning you dope)

I was born in Urbana Illinois on aug 10 1984. (Old man alert) I feel I was a pretty good kid .

I got into trouble like most kids but I don’t think things were super terrible (my inner voice: really?!)

Ok there was that one time I got caught shoplifting at Kmart .

Yes Kmart. I know I am aging myself but that was the store lol.

I’ll tell you the story .

I’m with my buddy and we are just goofing around like kids do (kids will be kids right ?) and I see the newest madden game at that time . I absolutely want it and darn near craved it .

My buddy new what I was doing and I looked around and stuffed it in my pocket . I told him I got it and let’s go.

We book it to the door and I’m almost out the door then ….I get yanked back in the store . I’m freaking out and the loss prevention officers are grilling me about why I did it and the possible consequences.

Then the most dreaded thing happens…..they call my dad (oh lord I’m gonna die ) they called him in and oh was he not happy .

So to fast forward a bit the outcome was laid out…be banned from the store and I won’t get arrested . Obviously I took that because who wants to get arrested and especially at such a young age.

That was a tough lesson for me because I knew what I did was wrong and I did feel remorse for it .

There are more stories (believe me…tons more) and I’ll get to those over time..

Just a bit more about me I love heavy metal 🤘.

I love the energy and the aggression of it .

Big golf and baseball fan.

I am a fan of tiger woods. The dude made the game cool to the masses . He also absolutely dominated the completion . I have never seen someone absolutely decimate the field (Scottie scheffler is getting to tiger ground)

I grew up during the home run chase with Ken Griffey JR , Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire. Chasing down Roger Maris.

These guys made baseball must see during that time when they just had a strike (millionaire babies I tell ya ) I remember practicing my play by play every at bat .

The night came when mark stood in the box against Steve Trachsel. (Human rain delay lol ) he sees the pitch and hits a low liner over the left field wall, the Busch stadium crowd exploded as mark went around the bases beside himself.

I also saw that record not last long as Barry Bonds smashed the single season record then later the all time career record .

Man, what a time to be a fan. I got off a on a tangent but that a little about me. Any questions for me? Anything you wanna know? I’m an open book (or a pamphlet)

Be sure to follow for more stories and fun and I’m grateful for vocal to help me kickstart my writing career, this is such a great way to connect and learn .

Take care.