I started hanging out there during the construction. Eventually, I decided Speakeasy needed someone like me.

I literally began at Speakeasy digging ditches, when I wasn’t trying to get my ‘Internet in a burlap sack’ working.

In September of 1994, my childhood friend, whom I knew as Gretchen Hage, came over to my Alki Point beach cabin with her husband Mike Apgar.