About
Welcome to the end of the internet… and my personal blog.
Now that you’ve surfed every other possible web site, I’ll try to close out the experience for you with something interesting. Contrary to what you currently see, I do plan to post regularly. Any topic is fair game, but most will center on what I love most: family, web technology and woodworking. I have to say, I don’t know how the “blogebrities” can keep up with regular posts. Maybe they’ve figured out the whole space/time continuum, or maybe they don’t sleep…
For the one or two people interested I’ve included a brief bio below. You can see more about my professional background at my linkedin profile. I also have a page with more details on my military career, you can link to it here.
Thanks for stopping by.
My Stats:
Location: Northern Chicago suburbs (grew up in Dowagiac, Michigan).
Who am I: the husband of Kelly, father of Nycke, Megan and Corey, brother to Mark and Steve, son of Ron and Carol, and a 20 year Navy veteran. If you’re trying to find a Hunsberger but I’m not the one, you can find more of us at www.hunsberger.org.
My Work: IT manager at Moraine Valley Community College.
Hobbies: baseball, golf, woodworking, camping with my family, all things web (not necessarily in that order).
Early aspirations: pro baseball player, but that didn’t work out. I took mechanical drawing all four years in high school and loved it. I am not artistic, but I enjoyed drawing with my angles and T-square. I thought about being an architect, but nothing serious. There probably wasn’t much of a market for an architect afraid of heights anyway, so it all worked out.
Claim to fame: member of the high school marching band (snare drum) when they performed in the Kentucky Derby Parade (even showed up on the local TV station). I also played a small part in rescuing a friend from drowning in a swimming pool at the hotel we were staying at.
Oddity: I spent 20 years in the Navy, and yet I never developed into a strong swimmer. I also have a “moderate” fear of heights, but have no problem submerging in a nuclear submarine for weeks at a time.
Little known fact: I met Kelly on Friday the 13th and married her less than 6 months later (3.5 of which I was on deployment on a submarine). That was in 1984, and 24 years later we’ve never been more happy. The time together before the kids was pretty cool, and now that all 3 of our children are out of high school we’re looking forward to that again.
Weird experiences: Kelly and I lived in Connecticut when hurricane’s Gloria (1985) and Bob (1991) blew through; during our 3 years in San Diego we experienced many earthquakes, a wildfire that came within a mile or so of our appartment, and watched a major drug bust go down in the building next to ours; we were stationed in Keflavik, Iceland when a volcano errupted in Vatnajokull (Europe’s largest glacier), I flew over it a few weeks afterwards en route to Norway - the damage was incredible.
Other sites I tinker with:
- kellyhunsberger.com - my wife’s personal site. It’s in its infancy stage right now, but will eventually be a showcase for her quilting, sewing and crafting projects.
- 2manshop.com - a father/son experiment for Corey and I. It’s a site to showcase the woodworking projects we work on, but more importantly it will serve as a learning experience for us on how to create and operate a “small” woodworking business. Since we both have real jobs we’ll probably won’t get out in the garage too regularly, so this may end up being a not-for-profit more than anything else - but it ought to be a blast.
- webtech - it’s my department’s blog at MVCC.
Sites I helped maintain several years ago:
