Well, in case you didn't guess...my name is Bob.  I live in the Dallas Fort Worth area.  This site is dedicated to the friends and family that I hang out with.  Meet some of my friends in the BobsPlanet Hall of Fame.  

I was born in St. Louis in the Winter of 1966 (geez…has it been that long?), and have lived in many places including Kent Washington, Austin Texas and Alberta Canada throughout my childhood.  My father was a general contractor, which forced us to travel quite a bit.   When I was about 13, my mother and father divorced and we settled down in Missouri where I attended Wentzville High School, which doesn’t even exist anymore.  I graduated in 1985 and after working a couple of weird jobs, soon after enlisted in the Air Force.  I went to 6 weeks basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio Texas, and then 8 weeks of technical school at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls Texas, training to be an aircraft mechanic.  I was eventually assigned to Holloman AFB, about 10 miles outside of Alamogordo, NM., to the 479^th Component Repair Squadron, working for the aero-repair shop, fixing AT-38B aircraft, that were used in the LIFT (Lead in Fighter Training) program, teaching young pilots how to fly fighters. 

AT-38B, Holloman AFB, NM.

I worked at the 479^th for about two years, and then transferred to the 49^th Tactical Fighter Wing on the other side of the base, working on F-15 Eagles.  There I worked in the Inspection Section, inspecting for damage and worn components from the rigors of flying.

F-15 Eagle

While in the Air Force, I attended a few different colleges in pursuit of my education. Among these are of course, Community College of the Air Force(CCAF), and New Mexico State University(NMSU). In 1989, I got out of the Air Force after four long years, and came back home, where I have been ever since.  After a short attempt to continue my career as an aircraft mechanic in 1989, only to find out that all of the major airlines and aircraft manufacturers were having difficulties and were laying off workers, and then working in various strange occupations like car sales and security work, I fell back on my second line of experience, computers.  In the Air Force, I worked on the computer systems there at the maintenance docks, and found out that I had a knack for it, so naturally, I saw it as a secondary career choice.  It turned out very well, as I have been working in the Information Technology field ever since. I continued college at Meremec College in St. Louis, studying Computer Science and Management, Information Systems

                                                                                                                                                                                     Me with my homebuilt computer

After working for many years in the field as a systems technician, systems administrator, and finally a network engineer, I worked my way up through management and after leading some great teams, I landed a job working for a major global logistics company, as a Network Operations and Datacenter Manager, where I work today.

Through the years I have had my trials, and have been married and divorced twice, and had three kids along the way.

Stephanie is my oldest daughter.  She is 21.


Elicia is my second oldest at 17.

My son Adam is 9.

I met a wonderful woman named Sandi, and got married in October 2006 (on Friday the 13^th even!)


and in the process inherited a stepson, Austin, who is 13.

This is my dog, Cartman.  He's not as dumb as he looks. 

100 Interesting Things About Me:
1. I'd rather fly than do anything.
2. I fulfilled my life long dream of flying my own plane on Sunday, June 25th, 2006.
3. I knew how to fly planes before I ever learned.
4. Boating, and being on the water, bring me almost as much enjoyment as flying
5. I was fearless of any rides when I was a teen, but now am afraid of most roller coasters...even the exact ones I used to love.
6. I can ride a unicycle.
7. I turn coins over on heads when I see them.
8. I have an addiction to patting people, and pets...
9. I've never been fall down-drunk in my whole life.
10. I've never been high in my whole life.
11. I hung out with Roberto Duran for a whole afternoon.
12. My most memorable dream as a child was of 6-foot fuzzy walkie talkies coming to play with me(don't ask me to explain that).
13. I was born during an especially heavy snowstorm.
14. I have a "double jointed" thumb, which I can retract into my hand.
15. I speak spanish at near-fluency, and absolutely detest doing so.
16. I cried ice in Canada...balls of ice formed as I cried...weird!
17. I can, and often do think about 4 or 5 things at once.
18. I won many spelling bees as a kid, and misspelled "Earth" in the regional finals.
19. I have the best vision of anybody I have ever known.
20. I have driven both a car and a motorcycle at 140MPH
21. I love to play hide and seek, and still find excuses to play with the kids...although at 6'2" it's harder to hide these days.
22. I make really weird noises all the time just for fun. (I do a pretty good police siren, and can whistle like a canary)
23. I won a set of his&hers bicycles at a night club once.
24. My favorite color is red.
25. My favorite number is 7.
26. I know more about black holes than anybody I have ever met(just always been fascinated with them...my whole life).
27. I don't like vegetables.
28. I love to sing, but cannot do so very well at all.
29. I listen for patterns in sounds, and cannot sleep if I find them.
30. I don't like other people using my pillow...even my kids.
31. I would love to have a neighborhood squirtgun fight...every day!
32. I had a childhood dream of getting out of bed and walking around the
neighborhood naked...and woke up with dirt on my feet.
33. I have the weirdest dreams of anybody I've ever met.
34. I know a lie when I hear one.
35. I like the word riboflavin.
36. I hate when people say "exsqueeze me".
37. I hate that damn "see ya next year" joke that flies around the office at the new year. STOP IT!!!
38. I don't understand insanity at all.
39. I love my job, and really enjoy going to work...really. (Network Operations Manager)
40. I really like every single "Mike" that I know. I can't think of one bad
"Mike".
41. My first car was a 1981 Dodge Colt.
42. I can roller skate really well, and dance to music while doing it.
43. I hate Jar Jar Binks.
44. I do a pretty good Yoda imitation.
45. I hate bad acting.
46. I talk to myself. I answer myself too......and so do I!
47. I'm not a procrastinator...I'll get back to this one later.
48. If you know the difference between chartreuse and mauve, I would probably find you annoying as hell.
49. I named my son after a person that changed my life and neither of them knows that.
50. I love ice cream, even in winter.
51. I use Cayenne pepper on almost everything I eat(except for #50)
52. I love watching cooking competitions, but I've never heard of a most of the things they make.
53. I adopted a child who won't speak to me anymore, and I have no idea why.
54. I have my own star.
55. To this day I go by a nickname that I earned by making a mistake.
56. I'm extremely ticklish.
57. I repeat things I hear right after they're said...drives my family nuts when we watch movies.
58. When I was a kid, I was asked by a friend who had a home kit to do a tattoo on a woman's breast, and I messed it up.
59. I met my best friend in the AirForce.
60. I am a huge WW2 history buff.
61. I played hangman once in class when I was 9, and guessed the word before the teacher even finished making the dashes. It was "Antidisestablishmentarianism".
62. My superpower of choice: Mind control.
63. I think South Park is the finest entertainment on television today. (I have a bulldog named Cartman)
64. I once did 52 pennies with the old elbow coin catch thing...(put pennies on your elbow, and then snap your arm out and try to grab the pennies...beat 52!)
65. I meet my wife's criteria of being big enough to climb.
66. I love astronomy, and own a telescope big enough for me to crawl into.
67. I am a GodFather.
68. I wish I could live off of bacon, Twinkies and root beer floats.
69. If you ask me what day it is...I will almost never know the answer.
70. I'm very difficult to live with.
71. I can drive backwards very well, and can parallel park really fast.
72. I can type as much as 90 words per minute.
73. Racquetball and tennis are my best sports, followed closely by basketball.
74. My first time in Vegas, my first attempt at slots, I won 50 bucks in nickels.
75. My seven front top teeth are fake.
76. I've been in four states at one time.
77. I can swim very far underwater without coming up for air. As a kid, I could go all the way to the end and back in an olympic sized pool.
78. I snore, and so does my dog.
79. I can hit a home run every single time in wiffle ball, usually clearing a couple of houses.
80. I've never hit a home run in baseball or softball, and always wanted to.
81. I am very complacent...almost always ordering the same thing every time I go to a restaurant.
82. My favorite saying is "Carpe Diem" meaning seize the day.
83. I bought my website from a kid for 350 bucks. (BobsPlanet.net)...and his name was Alex.
84. I trust completely until I'm screwed over once. Then...I never trust again. Ever.
85. I always get late fees on rental movies I hate, and never do on the ones I like.
86. I'm not afraid of my dentist at all, and he's the only dentist I've ever had I can say that about.
87. When asked to describe myself in one word, I replied "Survivalist".
88. I like my eggs over medium, and my steak medium rare.
89. I love to barbecue, and consider barbecued hamburgers the food of Gods.
90. I was a fighter jet mechanic in the Air Force. For some reason that fact always shocks people that know me.
91. I am stronger than people think I am, and weigh more than people think I do.
92. I've been a security guard, restaurant manager, jet mechanic, car salesman, and network engineer.
93. I can serve in tennis at over 100 MPH, and accurately, but am not very good.
94. I don't believe in astrology or psychic premonition.
95. I don't believe in ghosts, but I'm afraid of them.
96. I wrote a theme paper on aerodynamics in high school, having never studied the subject, and using no reference material whatsoever...and got an A.
97. I wrote a paper about a fictional character named
Aristophretizonepticusipromenipticus the hero in fourth grade.
98. I can't smell very well, often missing certain scents, but can detect cat pee for miles.
99. I took an IQ test at a local college and scored 148.
100.I like really spicy food.