This is a personal page/blog. Peruse my life at your leisure.
I keep one other regular blog: Letters to My Kids is an ongoing issuance of advice I hope to pass along to my children someday.
I keep an Amazon wishlist for friends and family to use around the holiday times. If you missed it in the sidebar, it’s here. There are some old wishlists out there with my name on them that I can’t seem to get removed, so use this link.
Professionally, I serve as Projects Manager for Reid/Rejebian LLC., a family owner marketing and public relations firm specializing in tourism and the hospitality industry. My background is in IT Management and software development. In times past I’ve been employed as a telecomm manager, project manager, graphic designer, web designer, contract software developer, musician, singer, trainer, newspaper columnist, camp counselor and public speaker – not to mention grunt work in landscaping, roofing and retail in my teen years.
In the 1990s I coded a lot of freeware that made its rounds across the Internet. You can find most of them at Simtel by doing a search for “Bill Reid”. However, most of them haven’t been updated in quite a while.
I am a former semi-pro musician, and have been a guitarist, vocalist and arranger for most of my life. I also play several other instruments at varying levels of proficiency. Life constraints and pure procrastination have limited my output in recent years, but I still put out some music occasionally. There are some limited selections of past works at Ourmedia (mostly instrumental/experimental) and some more current songs at Garageband. I’m somewhat of a guitar aficionado as well and post pics of the ones that pass through my grubby little hands on my Flickr stream or in Picasaweb albums.
I have worked as an artist professionally on occasion and as entertainment for much of my life. I spent a good amount of time in artist communities in the early 2000s, and I have works posted at deviantart, epilogue and digitalart.org. I have also spent an amount of time in antique furniture restoration, and sculpt crude figures in polymer clay.
I am a member of the Tallahatchie River Players, a local community theater group and enjoy taking on a couple of plays each year.
I am a survivor of West Nile virus , my wife is a survivor of breast cancer and my mother is a survivor of lung cancer. Any funds you choose to donate to research toward a cure is money well spent.
My passions are dual – my family and personal growth. Practically everything I involve myself in is rooted in one of these camps or in-between.
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