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Steve Slish - Webmaster
 My
experience with Judy and John dates back to the mid-80's when I was first
starting high school. My sister had been doing theater in high
school and through that, was a stage manager with Judy's Offstage, Inc. at
Trinity University. It wasn't long before I found myself ushering
the shows on a regular basis and helping John make the punch and fold
programs. My first production: The Penultimate Problem of
Sherlock Holmes. That was followed by another long stint as an
usher for Vanities. Then, in the summer of 1986, I got my big
break - stage manager for Quilters. I've been with Judy and
Offstage ever since missing only 3 shows between that summer of '86 and
1999 when I left San Antonio for Memphis.
Over
the course of those years I've done everything from set construction and
stage
managing to running the lights and sound during the performances. My
final show was 1999's Travels With My Aunt in which I served as
both Sound Engineer and Lights Console Operator. Most folks won't
really find that too unusual, me having been associated with Offstage for
so long however at the time of that last run, I'd lost between 60% and 75%
of my hearing. And even though it may not have been the most
difficult show to run, I'm still pretty proud of our work there and it
gave me some much needed confidence when I was really needing it. Outside
of Offstage, I do have some formal training. I received a B.A. in
English from The University of Texas at San Antonio in December of
1992 and I've worked in a variety of career fields ranging from
bookkeeping for a San Antonio real estate company to the supervisor of a
Memphis-based polling firm. I
began working with computers at the age of 12, during the days of DOS and
the old Apples. Every year the machines kept getting better and
better and every year I kept learning more and more about them. By
the time I had a chance to actually take some official computer classes, I
already knew more than the instructors.  In
the summer of 1996, something happened that changed my life. I met
the woman who will soon be my wife. We met in a chat room, of all
places, on the Internet. She was teaching a class on chat rooms, I
was there just trying to meet people. She's from Manila, The
Philippines, and even though we're on opposite sides of the planet, it was
as though we'd known each other forever. Last year I was finally
able to make the trip over to meet her friends and family (she'd been over
to the US twice since our first
meeting) and we had a wonderful time. It was then that I also
formally proposed and we will be married by the fall of 2002 (INS requires
SO much paperwork). It's because of her that I've managed to
maintain my sanity through all the events that have happened
recently. I owe so much to her, there simply are no adequate words
to describe it.
 I
started my own consulting and website design business in the summer of
2000. I've always enjoyed creating sites as a hobby and having found
myself unemployed, it seemed like a good way to bring in some extra money
until I found something more stable. I've been doing it steadily
ever since. If you're interested in seeing more of my work, feel
free to visit my site at www.sabear.net
, which contains links to the pages of my other clients as well as an
expanded biography and just about anything you'd ever want to know about
me.
I hope you've enjoyed visiting Judy and
John's site and that you found it both easy on the eyes and easy to
navigate. I did try my best to make the page simple to understand
and yet still attractive to look at. If you have any questions about
the site, or about me, send me some mail. I never can get enough of
it. -Steve
Slish
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