Hello steemit community!

Let's just get started with the silly name.

Yes, it's true.

My name since birth really has been "Corky".

It's actually a nickname, and my real name is Emmett. The problem was, that my father's name was already Emmett and so was my grandfather's. I'm a III. And since that sounds kinda royal, I have selected to create the username Sir Cork.

As the story goes, I was born, short, bald and fat, like my namesake grandfather was at the time. Only he wasn't fat, and I wasn't short. Anyway, for the first week I was alive, I didn't actually have a name at ALL! They called me the boy, the baby, and probably other names I wouldn't learn till my time on the playgrounds of youth much later. They argued over what to name me, back and forth between my parents, when finally granddad stepped in and said if you name him after me, I'll buy a $100 bond on his birthday every year till I'm gone. So they did, and he did, and granddad finally passed when I was about 7 years old. When I was 16, my grandfather's bonds bought my first car, a Chevy Chevette, from his grave! Weird, right?

So. Now I own a software company. I've spent 30 years in tech, and prior to my career, bought my first computer in 1982 and learned to code in BASIC on that shiny new 16k TRS-80 Color Computer which I bought with money saved from mowing lawns at 14 years old.

Modems came next, and dropping out of college came later. I went on to work at some of the most famous companies in the world, and spent some time consulting to the government in various technical roles in Washington DC and at NASA in Huntsville. During my time in the DC area where I grew up, (actually, in Northern Virginia) I won an award from President Clinton and VP Al Gore for my contribution to things that were at the time alleged to be making government more efficient. (Did it work? Pffffft. That's a whole 'nother post, friends!)

I'm leaving tons of stuff and years out. But before now, I've been married, and divorced. Twice. Sigh. And lived in 6 states and dozens of towns. As a technical consultant, software developer and corporate gypsy, I moved up and down the dial. Predominately on the east coast of the United States, but with a year of sowing wild oats at 21 as a lift operator on Aspen Highlands Ski Resort in Aspen, Colorado. In another sideline departure from my mainline tech career, I was a manager at a drag strip for a year. I like to do the things most people only talk about doing, live in exotic places and my life has always moved at about 900 miles per hour as a result.

Fast forwarding to now, lest this post get crazy epic long, I live in a tiny house, off grid on 17 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. I have 17 acres with nothing but a few solar panels, and a crisp, cold spring I haul up my water in buckets from for use around the cabin.

I also own a two story office building in my small town on Main Street, in a place that is at least 75 years behind the rest of America. It's like the Mayberry of the old Andy Griffith show. Except with a rural meth epidemic, and much angrier cops.

Man, I could go on forever here. I like crazy things like shooting my firearms, anarcho-capitalism, skydiving, drag racing and sports cars, 4x4's and motorcycles. I firmly believe there is nothing stopping anyone from trying new things, except people themselves and I refuse to be stopped, by anything except law enforcement or physics! :)

Anyway, the rest of the stuff that has happened in the last 48 years is so crazy and often extreme, that you likely wouldn't believe me anyway. But hey, I am friendly, don't bite, and have a lot of free time on my hands, so ask me anything and I'll tell you a story, almost guaranteed to be true!

Looking forward to making some new friends here on steemit. I think it's going to be great fun!

Won't you be my neighbor?

Yours truly,
The guy steemit instructed to introduce himself.

(SirCork)

PS: If you play Guild Wars 2, I go by this name there as well on Anvil Rock. Shoot me a PM in-game, I play several days a week. At least when nothing is in my head to pour out into words on social media, that is.

Bonus PS: If you need web application development consulting, and are committed to long term team cohesion on larger scale projects with adequate funding, drop me a line. I promise you will not be disappointed!

Okay, one more thing... I was a guest on a couple of business podcasts last year. Here are the links if you'd like to hear me tell some of these crazy stories, and drop some random business advice on you in full color audio!

Smashing The Plateau with David Shriner-Cahn
With Special Guest, Corky Kaericher on How and Why to Build a Micro-Multinational Company

or

The Conscious Millionaire with JV Crum III featuring special guest, Corky Kaericher

(And no, despite the flashy podcast title, I was just a guest. I am certainly not a millionaire myself. But goooooo crypto power!!!! Wish me luck!)

If you read this far, may you live long and prosper. If you didn't well, I'm sending you unread, unrequited best wishes anyway!

See y'all on Steemit!

And with that, this post is finished, Full steem ahead, steemitizens!