Patrick McLaughlin

Wow, what do ya tell a bunch of folks that you've never met about yourself?  I guess why I'm here.
 
Simple, I'm a single dad with four kids and NO child support from the other half of their gene pool.  I work for the number one airboat builder in the world, and I'm paid the equivelant of pennies.  I feel like I'm 152 at night when I get home instead of 30 (lol - lol).  I have little money and I want that to change.  My kids don't deserve it, their young lives have been more than rough enough.  
 
I've got a woman who was my best friend for a lot of years, she's is stuck with a drunken a__h___ for a husband and can't leave him because he  is the only way that their sons' medically induced catastrphic condition cost a fortune just to keep arrested.  She can't afford to take care of him on her own and she needs my help.  Jeez, we aren't even 'involved', but we've always been there for each other.  She more for me than the other way around.  
 
I first filled this out about a month ago.  And in that first draft of this 'About Me' I wrote "No one on this site knows less than I do".  That was my way of saying   HELP.  You must have heard me because I have learned so much.  I'm no guru that's for sure and I still have a very hard time staying focused on just one discipline, however I am starting to get things done.  I think that I've finally stopped using learning as an excuse not to move, do something.  Hmmm, may be an article in that.