Who is the man behind the curtain?
Apparently, there are a ton of Steve Frey’s out there on the ‘net, so I figured I should focus in on who exactly I am to unravel the potential confusion. I’m not the former pro baseball pitcher, nor am I the “financial thriller” author (he spells it wrong anyway!)…although I did play ball and I do write this blog. No, I happen to be the Steve Frey from little ‘ole Oviedo, FL–well, one of two anyway. I don’t have much claim to fame even though I’ll have you believe otherwise if we ever get engaged in a Metallica conversation. I’m just the lucky one of the bunch of Steve Frey’s who snagged the domain name. Hopefully that’s not too unimpressive.
The abbreviated biography is this (take a deep breath, and…go!):
I was born in Maryland, moved to Florida at age 5 where I was raised, lived in Oviedo, FL for about 20 years and went through the schools there in town (Lawton, Stenstrom, Jackson Heights, and OHS), slaved through UCF in the civil engineering program for 7 arduous years (at my own faults, but did eventually graduate), worked for the City of Oviedo then onto the City of Ocoee, married my college sweetheart Maria, relocated up to Charlotte, NC where we’ve successfully planted and grown our family tree stub. The current “me” is a mildly creative, web-browsing, bluegrass and hard rock listening guy who likes to dabble in trying to kill himself on a mountain (aka: backcountry hiking and camping, usually out of shape resulting in many aches and pains), cruise the Parkway, veg around the house, get in over my head in DIY projects, and continually refine my outlook on life–hopefully always for the better–through God and my buddy Jesus. Oh yeah, did I mention that you can label me as a “Christian?”
The biggest “hobby” (by definition of a hobby typically being time and budget-consuming!) in my life right now is co-captaining our two young boys, Jacob and Joseph. Separated by about 15 months in age, we’ve been constantly kept on our toes. I catch myself sometimes wishing they were older so we could be doing all the father-son(s) things, but I remind myself to slow down and soak it all in while I can!
So that’s me, in case you were wondering. Did you find the right Steve Frey? Feel free to contact me or sign my guestbook.
So what’s this website all about…why bother?
You’re not expecting a short answer, are you? No? Good.
This place–SteveFrey.com–has always been a work in process. It started wayyyy back in, gosh I can’t really remember now, 2003 maybe? It was pretty much just an online gallery of some pictures I snapped during some trips, hikes, and kayaking adventures. I think a trip to Washington State in 2003 is what really sparked the initiative (I’ll be sure to get pics back up sooner or later). It was such an amazing place and so many worlds apart from boring ‘ole Florida that I just had to share my pictures of that incredible land. From there I fluttered through a couple of false re-starts of the website, never really able to find an identity for it; a purpose. Long story short, fast-forward to late 2008/early 2009 and I found myself saying at least once a week “I wish I had a blog to post about that.” From cool pictures of my own to commentary about current events, I was driving my wife insane with making her my one-person live blog audience! After a few failed attempts at trying to force this into a “photo blog” (whatever that is) or a fancy online photo gallery, I realized that I’m really not a photographer, at least not one that needs a whole entire website devoted to boring people with album after album of random hikes, trips, and whatever else I brought a camera along for.
So I decided to jump onto the “blogosphere” bandwagon for now and just post “stuff.” I owe it to myself and my two readers to keep it somewhat interesting and not repetitive regurgitated blah that too often gets cycled around the internet. But, on the other hand, this is my website, so it’s a safe bet to assume everything that gets posted here is going to have some significance, meaning, or interest to me. Although I do make it a priority in life to not be a repetitive regurgitated pile of blah, so you may be in luck!
