Who Is This Rico Guy Anyway?

Rico is a nickname I picked up many years ago, though no one I know now calls me that. The "Roq" in RicoRoq comes from a small company in California, where I used to live. They sold a product called "Rico Rock" which was some sort of decorative stone waterfall thing. For reasons now lost to history my nickname and those waterfalls combined to form a new nickname for me. For a very brief period of time one friend began to call me Rico Rock, as in, "Yo, Rico Rock". In letters she would address me as "Rico Roq" (apparently to avoid any copyright infringements. Also, because "Roq" somehow made it cooler (?) -- cue roll of the eyes). For some reason it didn't die, and later when I needed a domain name RicoRoq.com was suggested. Unbeleivably, it wasn't taken (I know, hard to believe), and I registered it.

[After I wrote the above paragraph I got curious and researched that stone waterfall company. Sure enough, they're still around. And they have their own website... yep, RicoRock.com. Turn your speakers down.]

Anyway, my real name is Richard and I live Round Rock, TX.  I moved here in September of 2006, after having lived in Southern California my whole life.  I really like it here in Texas, though I have to admit that my reasons for moving here had less to do with how great Texas is... it had more to do with getting the heck out of California.  Best decision I ever made.

I have a multitude of interests, ranging from history to an obsession with the Dodgers.  I love music, and have been known to follow a certain trio from Canada around the country.

I have a voracious appetite for reading, and prefer a good book to TV.  My all-time favorite book is Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, and re-read it every other October.  Books are such an essential part of my life that I will keep a section below of whatever I am reading at the moment.  I'll include links to Amazon if you wish to purchase them.

That's it for now.  If I think of anything I'll add it later.

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