Nope, been around drag racing all my life. First as pit crew for my dad, handed out ET slips as a kid for extra money, then as photographer, then as a journalist/graphic artist for a drag racing newspaper, ran the timing system at a track in Rogersville, MO, then I worked as a tech for a timing system company (Accutime) and for the last 10 years I've been a track manager for a small dragstrip in SW Missouri. Also for the last few years I've also been an official/announcer for a traveling race series (CDRA). I've done every job at a dragstrip somewhere at sometime.