About Me

I’m a 36 year old IT & Management consultant residing in Portland, Oregon. I’m currently a single dad, who gives all his love to his two amazing sons. I’m also both appreciative of art, nature and enjoying that wacky thing called life. Most days I can be found with some type of caffeine in my hand and a fairly happy expression. Things aren’t always perfect but for the most part they are as best as they can be.

I enjoy all things “Northwesty” including the obvious rain and clouds in addition to the typical coffee addictive personality so abundant up here. Aside from being a CSS and xhtml design fanatic I also am currently an MCSE as well as MCSA and divide my computing attentions between Windows & Mac OS X based systems. Equally at home with Photoshop or rooting about in the schema of an Exchange server I tend to find my attentions drawn more to the artistic endeavors lately. (obligatory self-help nonsense): In addition to a focus on art, I’m also bettering myself while figuring out to resolve mistakes from the past in a fair and balanced matter (really fair and balanced though, nothing like Fox News lol).

I’m also a huge fan of Drum & Bugle corps and spend as much time as possible helping out the Seattle Cascades youth organization in any way I can (I even drove for them in 2004 and 2005).

Things I’m rarely without

  • Coffee or Tea
  • Camel Turkish Silvers American Spirit Organic Lights Happily a non-smoker since October 10th, 2009!
  • My trusty Zippo (in the junk drawer now)
  • My cellphone (Blackberry Pearl) 16gb iPhone 4
  • 17″ Macbook Pro
  • My good friends
  • My astoundingly awesome and jawdroppingly intelligent girlfriend Dana
  • My sons Alexandr Phelan O’Rourke & Michael Patric O’Rourke

Currently Playing

  • Team Fortress 2
  • Warcraft 3 (I know right?)
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Little Big Planet 2 (Do I have a thing for gaming sequels or what?)

    Favorite Poem of the moment

    But to see her was to love her,
    Love but her, and love forever.
    Had we never lov’d sae kindly,
    Had we never lov’d sae blindly,
    Never met–or never parted–
    We had ne’er been brokenhearted.

    For Nature made her what she is,
    And never made another.
    Robert Burns, from Ae Fond Kiss