About
Buck Says came about because my oldest grandson encouraged me to write a blog using my experiences to comment on various political and public trends. Strong opinions on various subjects was no problem writing but figuring out the technical aspects of blogging took a bit of time
I’ve come to the task of writing several time each week with thoughts and strategies I have used in my life that might be helpful to others. I’ve been a Chief Executive Officer of several successful companies, one of which had an office in England. Travel helped me to begin to understand differences in culture and approach to problems that were not typically the American style.
My experience in the Marine Corps after college gave me a perspective on values that has been important throughout my life.
I retired early from my primary career developing and building real estate projects and started a “late in life” new career working with bright young technical people in the emerging on-line world. I was fascinated with the Internet possibilities and thought it would keep me young to spend time with a youth driven new experience. It has done that
After 9-11, I formed a small technical organization which developed approaches to identifying terrorist and criminal use of the Internet. During this period we helped several government agencies in directing their efforts towards criminal use of the Internet more effectively.
Early in life I played baseball and dreamed of making it to the “Bigs” I couldn’t hit a serious slider or curve so that dream slid away. I raced sailboats with a fair degree of success, skied for years and now snowshoe in the Rockies with my wife who is a much better trekker than me. I read continuously with biographies being a significant area of attention. International intrigue and mystery fiction run a close second
One of my sons owns a pizza shop in Boulder that makes really great Philly style pizzas. I got him to teach me how to make a pizza and now relieve him one day and one night each week so he can spend time with his kids. This is perhaps as enjoyable an experience as I have ever had working. It is only 10 hours a week so I have time to work on developing a blog that can be informative , thought provoking and perhaps even humorous at times.
Buck
