OK... so this is the part where I tell you all about my life, and you pretend like you care!
My full name is Donald Michael Walter, and I was born on May 18, 1980. I'm from a small town in Ohio, otherwise known as Fort Recovery. I graduated from Ball State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Information Technology in 2003, and proceeded to move back home and live with my parents (Every college grad's dream...) to work a full time job as a Network Administrator at 8th Floor Promotions (Formerly Visions Manufacturing). On June 18, 2005 I got married to Laura Harris, whom I met at Ball State my sophomore year... pictures of my proposal can be seen here, and our engagement pictures can be seen here. Laura then got a job as a Residence Director at Western Carolina University, so we moved down to North Carolina after the wedding. After working a few small jobs, I finally found one as a web programmer at an Internet Service Provider called Dnet. During this time I also started up a little web business with a friend of mine from Ohio... ReliantWeb. After 2 years of North Carolina, we decided to move back to Ohio. Laura got a job as an Assistant Property Manager at University Park Apartments at the University of Cincinnati, and I got a job at Tracker Products LLC, just across the river.
Hmmmm... I play the piano, usually just for fun, but I have played for private parties, recitals, weddings, restaurants, choirs, musicals, and a few other events. I was also the keyboard player for the #1 band in Mercer County, known as JayAre, for 4 years, and am hoping to get another band started up sometime in the near future (Any interested prospective bandmates, email me!). Two of my most memorable performances were in 2000 when I performed on stage with Ben Folds Five, and in 2001 when I performed with the Ball State University Singers in Washington DC at the Pentagon and the East Room of the White House for the Official White House Christmas Party (Laura Bush makes some damn good Christmas cookies!).
I love live music! I go to concerts as often as possible! A few of the bands I've seen live include Ben Folds/Ben Folds Five, Guster, Cake, Gomez, Dave Matthews Band, Train, Fleming & John, The Divine Comedy, The Offspring, The Flys, The Living End, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Matchbox Twenty, Third Eye Blind, Eve 6, Audio Adrenaline, Newsboys, Third Day, Soul Asylum, Semisonic, Counting Crows, The Wallflowers, "Weird" Al Yankovic, Blink 182, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, Sara Evans, Sugarland, The Charlie Daniels Band, Hootie and the Blowfish, Howie Day, Phantom Planet, Rufus Wainwright, the Argument, Daniel Erb, Ingram Hill, Flogging Molly, Brendan Benson, Keane, and many others. Groups I have performed with include Ben Folds Five and Kenny Rogers, and I've also been invited to jam with Guster and Rich Hardesty sometime.
Well, that's about all I have for you right now, but if you have any questions or comments please email me, or if you have AOL Instant Messenger my screen name is spm3. Seeeya!