In true geek fashion, Hello World!

So, each day I make a vlog on YouTube. I usually start out my vlog by sharing some sort of anecdote, story or experience. My lovely wife has informed me that people don't want to hear that, they come to see the kids act silly. She may be right. I am not he most eloquent person in the world, and my southern drawl may take away from any good point that I do have to make. My new plan is to continue to share the happiness that my children bring to our family in the vlog, and place the rest of my rambling musings in this blog.

I am a junior to mid-level leader in the banking industry, directly or indirectly supervising from 20 - 25 people, and I have the ability to influence about 250 other associates on a regular basis. I am a happily married, proud father of two. I am active in my community, my church and my children's lives. I love all things geeky, but have a special spot in my heart for video games, Star Wars and spreadsheets. I have been known to keep a spreadsheet about a Star Wars video game... but that is a story for a different day. It took me almost 30 years to find out that there are other people like me in the world.

Each day I learn something that helps me to better serve those I work with, my customers, my community, my family or just helps me to live a happier life. I have learned a lot of things that I am happy to share with others, and I think some of it may even be useful to help other aspiring leaders to grow their careers.

As this blog progresses, you can look for me to post about my various interests and talents. Most likely the following topics will recur quite often:

Leadership and management
Parenting
Personal Finance
Happiness
Video Games
Random things that don fit any of the above categories

If you are a daddy, or want to be; If you are a leader, or want to be; If you just want to share thoughts with a fellow geek, this is the blog for you. I will try to keep the posts informative, thoughtful and entertaining. Please comment and share, as you will get out of reading this blog whatever you put into it. If you don't comment, I still get the therapeutic catharsis of writing out my thoughts!