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Relationship

Married. Interested in meeting people for friendship and meeting people for networking

Hometown

Decatur Illinois

Places I've been

Actually born in Detroit but moved to Decatur where I really grew up. Taught school there for 10 years, then moved to Chicago. Moved to Palo Alto California (San Francisco bay area) in 1997.

More about me

I am entering the next phase of my life, and enjoying it beyond belief! Retirement is wonderful!

 

I grew up in a small farm town in central Illinois. It was a pretty conservative area, and I wound up dropping out of high school after my junior year - long hair, politically active, and really didn't fit into the bible belt. I was accepted into college without a diploma because of excellent test scores, not because of my civic responsibility..

 

During college, I discovered civic responsibility. I became a father and married my college girlfriend - roughly in that order. With a family, I discovered I had an overdeveloped sense of responsibilty and loved family life. My daughter, now 37, with my two grandsons, gives me endless joy. I am still married to that wonderful woman I married in 1970.

 

I taught grade school in Decatur, became intrigued with computers in the mid 1970s, built one from scratch, introduced it to my class, and within a couple of years I was coordinating computer education for the state of Illinois.

 

I joined Apple Computer in 1983, and just retired from it in June 2007. A great career with many experiences to treasure, and friends that will be with me forever.

 

Living in Palo Alto California (we moved here in 1997) I find all the technical, cultural, artistic, and nature opportunities creating a perfect life. I plan on using Palo Alto as the base for my retirement with much travel to come.

Activities

photography, travel, music, computers (particularily helping folks), media production, docent at a state park, more to come

Favorite Charities

Habitat for Humanity, Second Harvest Food Bank, Millikin University (my alma mater), The Carter Center, FCNL, and all the walkathon, bikeathon, etc. I get from friends.

Favorite Music

Pretty much everything - and I mean it. 60s rock, folk, blues. Classical - particularily chamber music. Jazz - from Brubeck to Koz to Chet Atkins. Country - Mary Chapin Carpenter rather than the twangy stuff. Greatful Dead - I can listen all day to their stuff (and saw the next to last concert in Chicago - one of only about a dozen I had the opportunity to see)

Favorite TV Shows

Science Fiction! I am a real fan of Babylon 5 - have all the script books, a member of JMS' web mailins, looking forward to the new releases summer of 2007. Dresden Files, Dexter, Sopranos, Heros, 24 (though not season 6), Penn & Teller, Bill Mahr, Lost - in general I like story arcs rather than episodic shows.

Favorite Movies

Fargo, Kill Bill, Starship Troopers, Pulp Fiction, Death to Smoochy (Roger Ebert's worst film of all time!) Total Recall, Serenity, The Matrix Trilogy, Terminator, Alien, Easy Rider, Star Wars, X Men, Dogma, Caddyshack, Xanadu, Network, The Incredibles, Cars, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Waynes World, Little Miss Sunshine, Matrix, The Paper Chase, Blade Runner, Idiocracy, Weird Science, Batman Begins

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