Radu's Cave
About Me
Well, first of all, my real name is Marvin Guy Wise, Jr. Hence the name, WiseGuy. I was born May 29, 1972 in Millington
Tennessee. My father, Marvin Wise Sr (duh), was in the Marines stationed in Okinawa at the time. Because I
was 2 months premature, I spent the first six months of my life in an incubator. I don't remember it though so I guess that's
a good thing:) We moved around a lot when I was young, living different places all over the Midwest. My first sister, Carrie,
was born March 14, 1974 in Madison, Indiana, which is where we always came back to. I guess you just can't feel at home anywhere
but where your roots are. But we didn't stop moving around, that's for sure. My second sister, Connie, was born March 14, 1975
(yep, you read that right, same day, one year apart) in North Carolina. We were having Carrie's first birthday at the time, so I
remember that day pretty clearly even though I was only almost 3. :) Anyway, my third sister was born April 21, 1977 in Little Rock,
Arkansas. There are some funny stories I could tell you about living there, but I'll save them for some other time:) We were
living back in Indiana when I started school, and I found my first girlfriend in kindergarten. Her name was Jenny Lynn Leach and I
can still remember her phone number:) Halfway through kindergarten though, we moved again, but I can't remember where the heck
we moved to. All I know is that we moved back halfway through the first grade, and I ended up having to go to kindergarten in the
mornings and first grade in the afternoons because of some silly rule the school had about having to finish kindergarten. So I had
a girlfriend named Ann in kindergarten, and Jenny in first grade. Life was looking rosy:)
I moved again, however, and my days of having girlfriends were over for a long time. I finished first and second grades at Ryker's
Ridge Elementary in Madison, Indiana, and the most memorable thing that happened during that time was that the Ohio River flooded into my
back yard. Then we moved to Indianapolis and I began school in the "big" city. I did the usual elementary school
stuff, the programs and plays. I even got to play the big bad wolf in a modernized version of Red Riding Hood. During the dress
rehearsal, the girl was supposed to pretend to slap me, well,
she didn't just pretend, and my glasses went flying off into the
auditorium. My face was red, and not just from embarrassment:) After
elementary I moved on to Short Ridge Junior High School and was accepted into
the advanced studies program. But, like everything else, it didn't
last. My parents decided they wanted to be "country folk" and we
moved back to the Madison area, Hanover to be exact. We had a house with 4.5
acres of land, and it was pretty cool. Only problem was, I had been taking
Algebra and was ready for Calculus, but this school didn't have any math above
Algebra, so they stuck me in your basic add, multiply, subtract, divide
class. I was bored out of my gourd. Finally they moved me into
the
Algebra class, where everyone was a year or more ahead of me. By the time
I got to my senior year, they didn't have any more math classes to offer.
But that was ok, because I graduated in May of 1990 with an Academic Honors
Diploma (can you say YAY?) hehe. Well, after that it was time to think
about college. I was accepted to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and
started there in August of 1990. By March of 1991, though, drinking and
partying had taken their toll, and I had to leave. I moved to Dayton for a
while to be near my new girlfriend (wow it only took 18 years:) but the people I
was staying with kicked me out when they found out I was dating her. (go
figure) So I moved back home. May 13, 1991 I asked her to marry
me. To my surprise she said yes. We planned to get married one year
later, but things happened and we ended up getting married May 28, 1991, the day
before I turned 19. At the time, she was working in Cincinnati, and I was
looking for a job, so we were staying at my mother's. I would drive her to
work in the morning, and hour and a half drive, then use the car during the day
to find a job, then pick her up from work in the afternoons. This didn't
last long though, because the timing belt broke on the car, and we didn't have
the money to fix it. So we ended up living with my mother for 3
months. Talk about a bad situation. Finally, I got a job at
McDonald's, about the only job you could get in that town, and I rode my bike to
work the first day. It was almost a two hour bike ride, since work was
about 20 or 30 miles from my home. That evening after work I rode my bike
down Hanging Rock Hill and got an apartment. We had just found out that
she was pregnant and I didn't
want to be living with my mother when our baby was
born. On May 15, 1992, our first daughter, Aislyn Nicole, was born.
(That's pronounced ACE-LINN, I can't for the life of me figure out why some
people still call her Ashley) She was 7 lbs. 15 oz. and I couldn't believe that
I was a father. I worked various jobs during the next year, and started
going to Ivy Tech State College for an Associates in Computer Information
Systems. During this time, Anna became pregnant again, and on August 28,
1993, our son Timothy Michael Urban was born, weighing a whopping 9 lbs. 2
oz. I finished my degree in 1994, and Anna finished her degree for
Accounting at Ivy Tech in 1995. In November of 1995, we moved to
Cincinnati in the hopes of finding better jobs. I was doing computer work,
but due to a conflict with a temporary service, that fell through. Anna
worked some temporary jobs, and finally got a job working for Fifth Third
Bank. I went back to working at McDonald's, trying to just make ends
meet. Late in 1996, Anna decided we could make it on her income alone, and
I
stopped working to go back to school. I transferred in to the University
of Cincinnati with 127 credit hours, yet I still needed at least four years to
get my degree in Computer Science. Things went pretty well for a while,
despite a few minor mishaps, until Thanksgiving of
1997. Anna had decided things weren't going very well, and she said we
needed space. Me being the slow witted man that I am, understood that to
mean she wanted me to leave. So I moved out and got my own
apartment. The next couple of years turned into somewhat of a Soap Opera
life. Anna became pregnant when we were trying to work things out
and our youngest daughter, Mikaela Nicole, was born on October 21, 1998.
I've had a couple of relationships while we've been separated, but nothing that
lasted very long. Anna and I are trying to work things out but I'm not
sure how that is going to go. Every time I think I have my life figured
out things get all screwed up again. I'm working as a lab tech at the
university labs, and going to school full time. I still live by myself,
but I see Anna and the kids pretty regular since both Aislyn and Timothy play
baseball. Aislyn just turned 8 and I'm feeling kind of old. I'm
about to turn 28, and I've been married, sorta, for 9 years. It's a crazy
life, but hey, it's mine. Some people might think this page is long as
hell, but the truth is, I've left out a hell of a lot:) Well, I guess I'll
shut up now. Thanks for listening, if you made it this far:)
Well, I haven't updated this page in a long time. I guess I've been putting it off. Anna and I never worked things out, and we got divorced in September of 2000.
