What's Jerry been doing since High School in a nutshell?

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Well, for those of you who knew me, or cared enough to know me, I was, and still am, a computer geek. The amazing thing is, back in high school that was "totally uncool" and now a day I'm like SUPER PIMP. Go figure...

Ok, lets start with my relationships. After high school I had maybe one or two good relationships that didn't last. I had a few very unfortunate relationships with a couple people. I won't mention any names but if you are a woman I've dated and I haven't talked to you in a few years stop reading now, go away, and remain out of my life forever. Anyway, I ended up moving out of Yakima mainly due to the lack of good and high paying jobs for my line of work. I'll get into that in a bit though, I'm still talking about relationships... I have a coworker who was having problems with her marriage and was intending just to be a good friend and over a year or so it was apparent that after her husband left her, this was going to be more than just a friendship. We ended up getting engaged and as of St. Valentine's day of 2006 we got married.

Since most of my friends were women in high school I'm assuming you'll want to know about my wife. Yeah, too bad it wasn't you right?! You snooze you lose... Lets start off with the juicy gossip part. We have quite an age separation, but a unique one. She is 10 years older than me. She also has a daughter that is 10 years younger than me. So, yes, I have an 18 year old daughter now. As for my wife, she's got the heart of a child. In the grand scheme of things we act the same age so what's a year's difference give or take ten. Our wedding was excellent. She had inherited some land from her mother and we are presently (as of the writing of this 04/20/2006) building a brand new snazzy house on the property. Our wedding also took place on the property. It is out in the woods on 2.3 acres so we had a very cool and unique wedding. Then again when have I ever done something that conforms with the social norm. A very close friend of mine got ordained and was our minister. You can see my wedding picture galleries here. While I'm at it, you can see my home building picture galleries here. Anyway, married life is great! And NO.. No plans of any little Jerry's running around any time soon if ever...

As for the guys, you are probably more interested in what I'm doing for a living as that is the big 'social penis' everyone compares at these reunion things. I'm not sure how much my NDA allows me to tell you about what I do, nor am I sure you would care, nor am I sure most of you would understand so I'll give it a "reader's digest" version. The company I work for does pretty much anything you can imagine with most any type of movie data you can imagine. We answer questions for studios, theaters, etc. Questions suchs as: How many people went to the theater to see _____? How many people rented _______? How many people paid to watch ______ on pay per view? How many people with four fingers are into watching Anime? The list goes on and on. I'm the guy that makes sure that the servers that run the databases and the webservers keep running. It is sometimes a stressful job. For instance, you have Universal Studios or Disney directly seeing a problem that you are directly responsible for. For the most part I'm buffered by a bunch of politics so I don't get the full heat. This place can also be very fun and I work with a bunch of GREAT people. It pays well enough, I could do the same job and get paid more elsewhere but this place is fun which goes a long ways for wanting to stay here. At least it pays better than a job of the same profession would pay in Yakima, that's for sure. So I would say I have a 'social penis' of medium to large size that is consistently and constantly increasing in girth. Now you can go talk about amongst yourselves.

Where am I living now a days? I am living in a smaller town called Battle Ground in Washington. It's not too far out of Portland Oregon which is the city where I work. Battle Ground reminds me a lot of if you took, lets say, a bit of Cowiche, a bit of Naches, and a bit of Yakima, mixed them all together, filtered out a lot of the annoying stuff and then compressed it down to a size just barely larger than Cowiche. That is to say, people are still "good 'ol boys" but we also have a Fred Meyer's, Albertsons, Safeway, etc in our town.

Now for one of the big questions that I'm SURE you are all interested in... Am I coming to the reunion? There is a probability of 99.9% that I will NOT be making it to the reunion. I have 3 general reasons for this.

1) Most of you people liked me as much as I liked you which, lets face it, wasn't much. No need to sugar coat that. I've never been part of the 'norm' nor will I ever be. Conformity is and was a sin to me. A few of you realized this was 'cool' after high school but you all know who you are. Anyway, I'm not interested to know that all the 'hot' girls from high school ended up with 20 kids and 300lbs or that the jocks ended up bald, fat, and doing nothing with their lives. It isn't that I am passing judgment. I just really don't give a big enough crap to want to have dirt on someone I haven't seen for 10 years and won't see for another 10 years. I admit, I did still like a few of you 'hot' girls and a couple of you 'jocks' but high school is over. If you had wanted to stay in touch with me you could have. I know Yakima isn't the most technical savvy place in the world but I'm fairly high profile on the internet. Hard to miss me if you are trying to look for me. It's called Google... Anyway, I hope you all have fun and those of you that ACTUALLY gave a rip that I wasn't there you can feel free to email me...

2) Ok, now, I have to say that I have nothing against Karly or Sarah G. In fact in high school they were the greatest and I'm sure they are still awesome. So I don't mean this to be mean to them. BUT... That invitation looks like it was printed out by a 3 year old on an old 286 computer. No direct spelling errors other than the spell checker probably replacing right words with wrong words. For instance, "summit a photo", "has bin quit an experience". Or then there are the better ones that remind me of the Internet cult following of an old video game with a horrible translation that said, "All your base are belong to us." where they said, "be sure to bring some the buns." Those of you who know anything about me know that computers (and their proper use) are VERY important to me and this was a completely blatant misuse of a computer. They did however make double sided copies which I have to admit was 'quit' impressive in comparison. Again, I mean no ill will towards Karly or Sarah G. It just offended the 'geek' in me.

3) I'm in the process of building a house and we are getting to the final stages where we are making new decisions every day. I don't want to chance them screwing something up because I was off in Yakima talking to a bunch of people that I haven't seen for 10 years.

So that's about it. I'll leave you readers with a few little tid-bits of gossip: I am legally an ordained minister and can legally marry people in both Washington and Oregon. I am a published author on the web, I've done three articles on Linux.com (Linux is... Oh nevermind...). I still wear a kilt a couple days a year and have learned that it's not safe to walk through a frozen food section in a store... We are talking raisins people... I'm somewhat proficient at using lock picks... Why? Because I love to learn to do new stuff. I have an EXTREMELY twisted and funny website I do with a coworker called Song Crossfire. I'm sure some of you who didn't know me well will be SHOCKED by my alter ego...

If there are still any of you who are reading this that want to send me a message go ahead and email me at 10YearReunion@zolan.org. If you read this whole page you must actually want to talk to me, so I truly hope to hear from ya!

Peace out and happy 10 year peoples!!!

Jerry Kilpatrick