Welcome to my new (and hopefully will stay current) homepage.  In the past, I have had many different sites dedicated to various areas of interest in my life. My intention for this site is to act as a short summary of what there is to know about me. Of course, there is much more than meets the eye. So feel free to read below or you can contact me here. 

Where do I begin, I guess at the beginning sounds good to me. My name is Michael L. I am 25 years young and currently a senior at Ramapo College of New Jersey. I am currently employed by AT&T Mobility as a Technical Resolution Coordinator. I started in Advanced Network Services as a regular employee. After 5 months of working in that role, I was asked to join another team called the Advanced Support Representative. In that role, it was my job to assist the representatives in calls that they did not know how to resolve and assist with escalations. During this time, I also helped create what they call "The Morning Update." This consisted of trends of calls that we were receiving as well as issues that the network was experiencing. Before I came on board, the updates were very bunched together. It was my idea to create daily topic specific updates.

 During my young and fun times, I attended Hilltop School. After Hilltop, I went on to Thomas Jefferson Middle School (TJMS) as did everyone that lived in Lodi. While in TJMS, I joined the school choir. I originally started as bass but ended up becoming a baritone. Since I was young, I always enjoyed singing. Most of the time, I sang in the shower or when I was home alone.

When I went on to high school, I remained in the choir and joined the madrigal and traveling choir. When I was a freshman, I tried out for football. I was number 73 home and 72 away. After 2 days of summer camp, I noticed a lot of my friends were in the high school band. So the next day I went to band camp. I started on trombone 2 and moved up to trombone 1 my sophomore year. While still in marching band, I joined the concert and jazz band as well.  In my junior year I took up the tuba. I figured a big guy needs a big instrument. Originally I wanted to learn the sousaphone but the school didn't have one. I received my license on my birthday (first try) and my first car was a 1993 Chevrolet Blazer S-10. In my senior year, I decided to try acting. My first production was "Annie". I tried out for Rooster but never got the spot. I ending up playing a main character of President Roosevelt (I rocked). I also played 3 sub-characters of a bum, a radio announcer and a puppet. I graduated from Lodi High School in 2001 (first to graduate on the field) studying college prep.

After high school, I was one of the lucky ones to not get accepted to any college they applied to (that's my view and I'm sticking to it). I started at Bergen Community College (BCC) in the fall of 2001. I majored in Applied Sciences for Professional Studies. My first semester at BCC, I attended a presentation held by the Walt Disney World College Program. At this point in my life, my thought was I had nothing really going for me at the time so why not check it out. After attending the presentation explaining the program, we were told that job interviews were going to be held the next day if we were interested. That night, I went home and told my parents that I was going to go for a position. The next day I went to my interview. I advised them that I was originally interested in a position in transportation (monorail or tram) or operations (rides). During the interview, I kept mentioning that I worked in retail. A couple of weeks later I received a letter in the mail stating that I was hired as a "merchandise host". Originally I did not want to go because I thought it was useless to travel all that way to do what I do at home. After discussing the issue with my parents and my cousin, I decided to accept. Unbeknownst to me that this would change my entire life.

For the next eight months, I would be living 2000 miles away from anything and anyone I called home. The school (BCC) had a meeting with everyone that got accepted. I originally had plans to go down there and meet with my friend but it didn't end up that way. I knew before we even left that there was a good campus and a bad campus. The good campus (at the time) was called Chatham Square and the bad was called Vista Way. The only reason I wanted to stay in Chatham, even though I knew the parties and such were in Vista, was because they had Ethernet in every room. I started in Disney on January 22, 2002 and was stationed out of All Star Movies and was scheduled to work a certain amount of days there, and then a couple of days at the All Star Sports, and then a couple more days at All Star Music. By the end of the internship, I had worked at all three All Star Resorts, The Grand Floridian, The Contemporary, Magic Kingdom, and The Yacht and Beach Club. I also worked at Port Orleans Riverside, The Boardwalk, and Caribbean Beach. At all of those resorts, I worked as a merchandise host except Magic Kingdom where I worked the Fast pass line. Of course there were other jobs in there that cannot be discussed publicly due to liability reasons.

While I was working there, I took up the hobby of scuba diving. Both my house mate and I signed up for a 6 week course that Disney offered to its cast members. I received my NAUI scuba diving license with my house mate and we both went scuba diving at Opcode the following day. I also went diving there with my father when he came to pick me up as a Fathers Day present. Since then, I have only scuba dived a handful of times as my father has a bad back and we had other ventures we were looking into (motorcycles).

I have since graduated from the Walt Disney World College Program on August 14, 2002 and had then went on to complete my Associates in Applied Sciences through Bergen Community College. I now attend Ramapo College of New Jersey.

If I am not at work or at school, you can usually find myself either in my garage or on my motorcycle. Let it be known that motorcycles are a disgusting drug and are very addicting. I highly suggest that if you are looking to get one, be prepared both mentally and financially to have the most fun you have ever had in your life (with exceptions). This hobby started for me in 2002 when I bought my first motorcycle. Well.... it was a 50cc scooter but it was close enough. The story goes something like this.

Most of us are familiar with those pop ups that you get when accessing a website. My plan was to tell my parents that I won third prize in a contest on one of those sites and that the price was a 50cc scooter similar to the one here that Yamaha manufactures. In actuality I won it on ebay for 1300.00. I paid the man the full amount for the brand new scooter and had everyone believing that I really won it. I knew this was the only way that my mother would allow me to have a motorcycle. Lets just say that I was right.

After the small scooter, I move up to a 2003 Honda Reflex 250. This was the most comfortable and the most fun bike to ride still today. You turned it on, let it warm, and give it gas. Thats it. Sometimes I wish I still had this to play around on. I put yellow strobe lights in this and started to mount a radio and speakers in but never completed the project. This is where my name "Customeyezer" started. From this point on, nothing was ever good enough the way it was. Something had to be changed to make my bike different. I got rid of this bike at 600 miles and sold it on ebay. The next bike was a 2000 Yamaha V-Star 650 Classic. I bought this bike through the local news paper. My father had a V-Star 650 Custom as his first bike and we both learned how to ride on that. This bike was going to be my bike so we can ride together. 

More to come...