About me…
My name is John and this is my blog.

I am employed at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where I provide desktop computer support to faculty and staff. I’m a longtime Apple user and deal almost exclusively with Apple technology in my job. And as long as I’m fully confirming my computer geek status, I will also admit to possessing other nerdly attributes, including an affinity for comic books, cartoons, science-fiction and pop culture in general.

Currently I’m eight years into a career in the computer support field (concurrent to an even longer tenure in food service; more on that later), after making the leap from journalism. I started writing with a couple of high school journalism classes and the associated newspaper. From there I moved on to Rhode Island College, where I spent most of the 90s at the student-run newspaper “The Anchor,” serving 5 or 6 years as executive editor (among various other titles). The work there included writing, editing, photography, desktop publishing and basically whatever else needed to get done each week to get the newspaper published. After leaving RIC, I spent some time in radio, working for MetroNetworks as a writer and morning drive on-the-scene reporter. Other newspaper gigs included reporting for the “Attleboro Sun-Chronicle,” “Pawtucket Times,” and the now-defunct “Berlin Reporter” in Berlin, New Hampshire.

I made the jump to Apple Macintosh support in the spring of 2000, joining the Training & Support team at Berklee. Eight years, five MacWorlds, four iPods and countless trouble tickets later, I’m still going at it.

Every summer I spend my nights and weekends managing Sunshine Creamery in East Providence, Rhode Island. (More specifically the happy little section of East Providence known as Rumford.) I’ve been in near-continuous employment there since 1987 and manage a staff of 20 who dispense frozen goodness out five windows seven days a week from April through November.

When I’m not in Boston fixing computers or in Rumford scooping ice cream, I’m at home in nearby Seekonk, Massachusetts. Probably sleeping.

Why everythinghappened.com?
The site name is lifted from Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road.”

If your not familiar with the book, “On The Road” chronicles the cross-country travels of two men (Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty) in post-World War II America. The book is highly autobiographical, with most of the characters and events linked to real people and events in Kerouac’s life.

At one point in the story, Sal and Dean are in New York City in the middle of a giant New Year’s party. Kerouac takes us through a breathtaking two page-long single paragraph description of the comings, goings, drinking, dancing, carousing and other events of the evening, and then, at the height of the action, encapsulates it all in a two word sentence: “Everything happened.” Probably the least amount of words ever used to describe such a wide array of events. And more importantly, placed perfectly within the text.

It’s not just the intent behind the words “everything happened,” but the prose in which Kerouac contains them that serve as inspiration.

Contact
Find me on FaceBook here. Follow me on Twitter here. Email me at john@everythinghappened.com.