30 Random Things About Me

1) My name is Jason. But, my friends call me JBall.

2) I have been married to Bridget for 7yrs this April. We have a very polite three year old son named Xander.

3) At 33 I have decided that I need a college education. I currently am in my fourth quarter at the Art Institute of Indianapolis. I’m earning a BS in interactive media design.

4) Both my wife and I are only children. So our son has no natural aunts or uncles. Several Great Aunts and Great Uncles. But, none of his own…

5) I started my own freelance web design company two years ago. Since then I have partnered up with Rob (copywriter) and Chuck (programmer)… Need a web page?

6) My favorite ice cream in mint chocolate chip.

7) I’m fat. Always have been. Get over it, I have.

8) I play funk style bass in the metal band Honesty Kills. (myspace.com/officialhk)

9) I’m a total comics geek. I love’em!

10) I consider myself to be pretty crafty. I love to make things…

11) I used to be a cowboy… Now: not so much.

12) I hate chain mail! OMG! Stop the insanity!

13) Online is probably the easiest way to get a hold of me. Or my cell.

14) I miss my high school friends dearly… Anyone seen Mitch Balke??

15) I’m the “black sheep” of the family.

16) I wish I had a clone. Maybe then I would have enough time to get everything done I want to.

17) I really want to be a gamer. But, I don’t have the time. I love video games, mostly fighting and 3rd person shooters.

18) I suffer from road rage. It’s an occupational hazard.

19) I’ve become a hermit in my old age. I used to be a social butterfly. Now I relly like to stay home where its quite and uncrowded.

20) I think that Texas Roadhouse makes about the best steak I’ve ever had the pleasure of digesting.

21) I snore. There I said it.

22) I’ve never been further west than Nebraska. But I’ve been to just about every state east of there.

23) In high school, Spencer and I loved to do the exact opposite of what the art teacher told us to do. Just to prove that we could.

24) I love the DVR. Without it I would miss everything. I spend most of my spare time in front of this computer.

25) As Travis says “You can trust me”

26) I’ve held a wide varity of jobs. Including 12yrs in the restaraunt field. I also spent a summer traveling around stacking semi’s for transport. We’d stack two or three tractors onto the saddle of one and drive to another state and un stack’em. Hard work but, I’ve seen a lot of cool Kenworth dealerships…

27) When I was in kindergarten my parents bought me a puppy. She was a cocker spaniel named Pepper. She was my best friend until my senior year in high school, when we had to put her down.

28) I was born and raised in Noblesville, IN. My family only moved once during the twenty some odd years I lived with my parents.

29) I’ve known my wife for close to 15 years. We have mutual friends and would often end up at the same parties. I used to always hit on her but, she never took the bait until the winter of 1999. We haven’t been apart since. We hardly argue and when we do it’s about money. Hell, who isn’t uptight about money these days?

30) My mother and father own a bed and breakfast in Metamora, IN. They were wonderful parents who did the best they could to raise me right. I hope to be as diligant with my own. They are a great role model for longevity in marriage. They(we) have had our share of rough times, sure. But, they have stuck together through thick and thin for 44 years.