User:Stevekrause

There are many more Steve Krause's in the world than I once imagined, and Google tells me so. Some of them even have their own web pages. I do not have my own web page, and a Google search will find all the other Steve Krauses before you get to here (congrats on findng me!).

My full name is Steven Earl Krause, which is a little less common (unless I were a serial killer, and trust me I'm not at this point in life, but I do have urges). And nobody would randomly go to stevenearlkrause.com... even stevekrause.com is a bit of stretch, but no offense meant to my fellow Steve Krauses.

That said, while there are a surprising number of other Steve Krause's out there, I'm pretty sure my life experiences are a bit unique, if not in fame, notoriety or even blandness. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, but moved to Japan in 1991 (just after the first Gulf War, but not for any reasons related thereto). I arrived with a one way ticket, an empty bank account and a handful of cash (about $2,000), and a copy of The Japan Times to find a place to stay and a job to pay for it all. The job, of course, turned out teaching English. (At the time, before the Internet was the way to look for things and do stuff, The Japan Times was *the* newspaper to find jobs and apartments - Monday editions particularly!)

I taught English for 3 years; great experience, but went nuts doing that after awhile, and ended up taking a night position as a word processor in the Tokyo office of Morrison & Foerster, a.k.a. "MoFo".

I'm still at MoFo now, going on 18 years and the IT Manager for our Tokyo office for the last 10 years or so. My life and experiences are varied, strange and complex, but life is good.

Other Steve Krause's... greetings!

That's all for now.