The DropShip.com Action Team

For me, maintaining awesomeness has always come quite easily, so it provides a decent amount of free time to do other things. I love spending time with my wife Amy, and our two kids, Kaitlin and Alex. I especially love spending that time with them in the outdoors. I’m a pretty solid outdoor gear nut, and whether with my family, or with friends, make it a point to spend as much time as possible hiking, backpacking, snowshoeing, skiing, camping, and road-tripping around the great outdoors. Utah is one of the best spots on the planet for proximity to quantity, quality, and variety of things to do of an adventure bent; it’s one of the reasons I love to live here. I also spend time giving back to the entrepreneurial and tech community here in Utah. I started LaunchUp.org, a monthly event for "Barn Raising for Entrepreneurs" I try to spend time speaking to and working with college students to help them “Defy Gravity” and go chase their entrepreneur side. I am also a trustee and member of the exec committee of the Utah Technology Council.

I would mash up my three passions: Family, entrepreneurship, outdoors by planning a trip around the United States, and then onto the world, visiting places where I could fit in an outdoor adventure or two, but also where I could meet with local entrepreneur instigators and share ideas about entrepreneurial community building. Maybe see about helping these smaller communities start up a local chapter of LaunchUp.org. Bring the family along for the ride. I’d hit 15 places in the U.S., 35 in other countries. Fun Times.

My nickname is JerCore. Friends that come with me on the outdoor trips I organize a couple of times per year dubbed me it. You know, we’re not HardCore, we’re JerCore. So they became JerCore trips. We have a logo. And a website: jercore.com (hasn’t been updated for a long time!). And lest you think that maybe I don’t deserve such an awesome and intense nickname, I forst point you to my Avatar. Right? And if that still has you doubting, check this post out: Curveballs (or boulders as they may be)

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. According to my 12-year son, it is the longest word in the English language. It was a proud day when he could actually say it. So much so, that he runs around the house repeating it multiple times a day.

I’d head to Alaska - the last frontier of the US. It would be hard to beat living in a cabin next to a beautiful river overlooking mountains. I’d just need enough guns to hold my own with the Grizzlies.

Jason Bourne. Come on ... trained assassin with amnesia. You just react baby!

Defenestration

Pelao Feliz is Spanish for “happy baldy” and was bestowed upon me when I lived in Chile for a couple of years. It’s obviously a commentary on my dashing looks, muscular physique and stellar intelligence.

I love spending time with my family — we’d do a road trip across the U.S., spend a couple of months up in the mountains, and construct a tree house in the back yard. If the sabbatical came with money, we’d spend the year building a castle up in the mountains, complete with moat and banners caught high in the morning breeze.

My wife, oldest kids, Steve Jobs and Tina Fey. I live for my family, technology and humor. Steve Jobs is obvious, and I’m certain the dynamics of my wife, Steve and Tina would be awesome. My kids would need to witness said awesomeness. (Also, babies are uncool on road trips.)

Learn to harness zombie energy using brains-as-carrot techniques. Revolutionize the zombie-world energy industry.

Marty McFly. Who doesn’t want to be a rock-guitar playing time-traveller who has a mad scientist as a friend, and also gets the hot brunette in the end? (I’m ¼ of the way there!)

I enjoy sports and the great outdoors. I wakeboard when its hot, snowboard when its not, and I play basketball whenever I can get enough guys to play. I enjoy camping with my family, playing tennis with my wife and spending as much time with my two daughters as I can, doing whatever it is they can think up at the moment.

Tour the country in a motorhome with my family. We’d take a MasterCraft to all of the best lakes and rivers in the summer for as much wakeboarding, slalom skiing and wakesurfing as we can handle and we would hit all of the sand-dunes with dirt-bikes and quads. Then, when it gets cold, we’d travel to all of the best mountains for snowboarding and skiing.

Goofy. He had it all. He was a family man. He showed us how to do all of the things I enjoy doing. And, even though he pretty much messed everything up, he never gave up and laughed through it all.

I’d pack up my motorcycle and hit the road. Like Caine in Kung Fu, I’d go from place to place, get in adventures... My dream trip would be an epic round-the-world trip via motorcycle.

First, I tell my wife: “I told you so!” Then, I grab my bug-out bag and load the supplies I’ve been collecting into my truck. I’d board up the house as best I can, in hopes that we’ll have something to come back to after the scourge of zeds is eradicated from the planet. My wife would drive the truck and I’d take the motorcycle, that way we have 2 viable forms of transportation should the walking dead find us and we have to evac. We would head to the relative safety of the Oquirrh Mountains west of Salt Lake City. There would be less people to deal with, and zombies suck at climbing. We’d set up camp in the old miner’s cabin I’d previously staked out. It’s a solid structure with good vantage points for seeing intruders from afar. We’re safe, for now…(What? You haven’t thought about it that much?)

I spend most of my time either shooting zombies or terrorists, remodeling my house, or just hanging out with my wife and kid.

John McClane. That dude is balls-out awesome. Yipee-kai-ay Motherf-er.

What are we talking about here? Fast zombies? Slow zombies? Of course you’ve got to load up on guns and non-perishable food. Then drive to a nice creepy cabin in the woods. Or maybe just grab a cricket bat and head to the winchester to wait it out.

Head to my brother-in-laws house to raid his gun arsenal, then head for the hills with my family and trailer in tow to wait it out. One big long camping trip...

My friends called me "Dangerous" when I was a teenager. We would always be out playing basketball, football, roller hockey, etc. and someone (myself included, sometimes) would get injured. Could have been an elbow to the face, getting run over on a drive to the hoop, or just about anything else. It didn’t ever keep us from playing together, just created more bruises.

I would head for the mountains and just spend my time Mountain Biking, Rock Climbing, Kayaking, Fishing, Hiking, Snowshoeing, Snowboarding, etc...

Irregardless: Although now a recognized word in the dictionary, it happens to be one of the most commonly misused “words” in common conversation.

I would go on a world helicopter snowboard tour and hit all the incredible mountains that I wouldn’t ever get to ride otherwise. (Alaska, France, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, Scandinavia, Australia)

Bruce Wayne. He has an incredible car collection, and always has state of the art technology to work with.

Traveling, golf, watching movies

Travel the world, studying world history, chronologically. I’d start in Egypt and work my way through history and end up in America.

Jack Torrance from The Shining, because I think I could handle it. Plus I’m super good at hedge mazes. Especially in the snow.

I love to spend time with my wife and son, play basketball, camp/hike/backpack, snowboard, do volunteer work for my church, write screenplays, read, work on video projects, and watch movies.

Asdiculous. It’s a combination of asinine and ridiculous. Once you know this word, you’ll be surprised just how often you find things/people/situation to be ridiculously asinine necessitating the use of this word.

Probably Wolverine from X-Men, but not for the reasons you think. Sure, retractable adamantium claws are pretty rad, but after some rather painful health problems this year, I’ve come to value my health more than ever before. Nearly instantaneous healing capabilities sound pretty nice right now, plus Blaine will be happy when I never take a sick day.

Playing soccer, reading novels and watching TV series. I enjoy shows such as Chuch, Leverage, Game of Thrones, Supernatural, Criminal Minds and Bones.

I’d stay home and watch movies and TV Shows, read novels and read up on the tech world.

Chuck Bartowski, from Chuck. Having the ability to learn anything in a flash would be really handy. I’d really like to get my hands on one of those intersect programs.

I’m attending school right now to finish my remaining units in Education so that I can teach. I enjoy playing online RPG games, watching movies, listening to music and going out with friends. I love to cook and enjoy making a mess of the kitchen.

Very long staycation. I’m a home-body. I’d study culinary arts or landscape architecture, or spend time with the family.

Nikumbh Sir (played by Aamir Khan) in the movie Taare Zameen Par (Every Child Is Special) which is the best movie I’ve ever seen because his character touches the life of others in a very special way.

When I’m not at DropShip.com or practicing bending spoons with my mind, I am hard at work on my other businesses or at some kind of entrepreneurship event. When summer time comes I’m all about the sports, softball, football, boating, just being outdoors, and roaming the streets at night in my ninja suit.

My wife and I gear up and travel the world. No phones, no computers, nothing. We get lost, stumble across an ancient tribe, epic battle scene occurs, I win because of my Action Team training, they make us king and queen, we never return.