A guest blog post by  Houser about life in South Carolina.

Compared to my friend and fellow AOT blogger Kapongham, life in my neck of the woods is much less thrilling. My wife and I own a 6 acre farm in the foothills of South Carolina which is in the south-east United States. Compared to her blog post last month, I feel much less interesting.

Our elections and politics aren’t quite as colorful, but I suspect many of you reading this who aren’t Americans are as well or better informed about ours than we are! Compared to the cuisine and culture of south-east Asia, our little corner could be considered a bit more relaxed. Our fare often includes local traditional meals like collard greens cooked with salted pork fat, called fat-back, or pulled pork barbecue. We enjoy many local beverages, Coca-Cola and Pepsi are regional creations, especially local microbrewery beers. We enjoy getting together with friends for a communal meal out at a restaurant at least once a week.

I spend my work hours running a construction staffing and human resource management firm. We perform many functions that those of you reading this outside the United States would consider government type programs. My work crews do everything from buildings roads and bridges to constructing schools and churches. This week some of our workers went out and got free massages and haircuts as part of a “Mystery Shopping” program that companies use to measure internal customer service! At the moment, many of my fellow managers are running crews who are hard at work cleaning up the disasters in Tennessee. Our company has a hard earned reputation for responsiveness in disaster relief due to our quick mobilization for Katrina and for the 2007 hurricane season that hit florida in 2007.

At home I spend my time with my three primary hobbies: Tabletop gaming (Dungeons and Dragons, Star Wars, World of Darkness), Alcohol consumption, and making hot sauce. The hot sauce is by far the most interesting and useful thing I do in my spare time. My little hot sauce venture makes 8 different sauces which we sell to restaurants as a “house sauce.” Our spiciest and most intense is a habanero and bhut jolokia pepper sauce called “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” while our most flavorful and popular sauce is an arbol chili Pepper blend called “Old Time Religion.”

So, feel free to contact me anytime if you want to know more about me. Until then, I wish you a great experience at www.anybodyoutthere.com

Bye!

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