Magic was not really part of my youth; sports was always my thing. Even now, I spend much of my free time as a youth and high school soccer referee, working approximately 150-175 games a year. The highlight of my refereeing career came in the spring of 2025 when I was selected as the Referee for the Girls State NCISAA – 1A Finals. What an honor! With any luck, all of that running will provide me with a long and happy retirement. I am planning and so looking forward to retiring from the corporate world in 2026. I hope to spend a lot of that newfound free time working on my magic and doing logic puzzles. I have always liked to do logic puzzles (both mental and physical) and still enjoy them until today. This sort of lead me into my career as a Mathematician and Computer Architect (for the last 40 years). I love to reverse engineer magic. No one will watch magic shows with me, as I want to go back and replay them repeatedly until I figure out the process.
A couple of things I am so looking forward to as I enter my retirement from the corporate world is performing more and building more. I have a OneNote with several drawings and boxes of projects that I have started and never had the time to finish. Surprise, Surprise. I hope to have plenty of time to evolve, develop and perform them in the near future.
When I was 12, Santa brought both of my brothers ‘Svengali’ (aka TV Magic Cards) decks in their stockings… I thought they were the coolest things ever. I played with them until I wore them out.
A bad one working on being a funny one for kids
Figuring out ways to make people go wow and laugh at the same time
The third Tuesday of every month, sitting down at the Harlan’s and listening!
The honest open fun dialog with the other magicians.
Proud Home of the International Brotherhood of Magicians Lee-Snavely Ring 199 and The Society of American Magicians Assembly #199