Allow Myself to Introduce…Myself
I am a husband (to Carolyn) and dad (to sons Taylor and Blake). I am also a web and social media manager at North Memorial Health Care, a Twin Cities hospital and clinic system. My personal interests and pursuits include:
- Taking on various building and repair projects;
- Jamming to something electronic in nature, or metal, or jazz, or bluegrass;
- Volunteering for Elim Lutheran Church;
- ‘Working’ on my iPhone;
- Geocaching (my username is aloumeyer);
- Co-leading a Cub Scout den at Pack 141;
- Scooter riding;
- Serving as a Brooklyn Center neighborhood watch captain.
I have two particularly proud achievements: my status as an Eagle Scout (attained by just 5 percent of Boy Scouts), and I am an accredited member and longtime board member for the Minnesota Health Strategy and Communications Network (MHSCN), where I currently service as immediate past president.
Odds & ends…
- My karaoke standbys are “Mac the Knife” and “Six Days on the Road”.
- Inspired by my dad, Maynard Meyer (he’s WA0KNP), I earned my ham radio license at around age 12. Said license has since lapsed, and my call sign was KA0TWO.
- My dad — the aforementioned amateur radio enthusiast — started a radio station in 1983: KLQP FM in Madison, MN. My siblings and I all worked there as part-time announcers. On a side note, dad was recently inducted into the Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
- I have constructed two small wood boats. Both watercraft cruised with a trolling motor or, using better judgment, paddles. I gave each one away on condition of acceptance of the fact that they would likely sink.
- I met Yanni when I was nine years old and he was in a bar band called Chameleon (photo to prove it).
