Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, I entered the Air Force, after being drafted, in May 1966. Retired in 1988 after 22 years. I had the opportunity to visit and/or spend time in; Germany, England, Greece, Thailand, Turkey, Guam, Alaska, and Egypt. Also had the pleasure of establishing residence in Florida, California, New York, South Carolina and Virginia, where I currently reside. Raising a family in the Air Force, although sometimes very stressful, has proven to be a blessing as two of my three children have established lives of their own, close to the military. My 24 yr. old son, however, says "yuck" to the military, I guess because he didn't experience the moving around as my daughters did. Obviously, after 22 years of service and extensive travel, I didn't get enough, so I became one of those famous "Double Dippers" and now work for the Air Force as a civil servant. My current job requires a lot of travel, so I have broadened my visitations to just about every state in the union, including overseas areas in Portugal and Panama. I enjoy building computers, and have built at least 12 systems so far, also have become very computer literate with Windows 95/98/2K/XP/Vista, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and Hardware.

2004/2005/2006/2007

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My Homebuilt System

AsRock 4CoreDual -VSTA Motherboard,

Intel Pentium D-830 3.0 Dual Core  processor,
2.0 GB DII667 (800mhz) DDR RAM,

Linksys Cable Modem

D-Link Wireless/Lan Router

(Wife's Laptop using wireless and Son's computer using LAN for Internet/Sharing Printer))

D-Link DFE-550TX 10/100mb Ethernet Network card

EVGA GeForce 7300GT 512MB PCI Express x16 Video Card

Audigy 2 Surround Sound 6 Channel Sound Card

4 Cambridge Sound Works Speakers + Woofer

80.0GB Maxtor 7200rpm Hard Drive,

80.0GB Western Digital 7200rpm Hard Drive

80.0GB Western Digital SATA 7200rpm Hard Drive

Memorex 52x32x52 CDRom/CDRW Burner/16x DVD reader

16X DVD+RW/DVD/RW LIGHTSCRIBE Burner,

32 in 1 Card reader

All in a Aspire X-Plorer metal Tower Case with UV Lighting and Clear Side Panel with built-in air duct on the side panel to funnel cool air towards the processor and other critical system components without a fan , 650W dual fan Power Supply, 6 fans

Canon LIDE 60 USB Flatbed Scanner,
Epson R260 Stylist Photo Pronter (using USB)

Microsoft Web Cam

“DUAL MONITORS”

17-inch Acer Black LCD Flat Panel Monitor using VGA

17-inch Acer Black LCD Flat Panel Monitor using DVI

Microsoft Pro Ergonomic Wireless Split Keyboard / Microsoft Wireless Optical Scroll Mouse

Software includes:

Windows VISTA Home Premium

Office 2007, Outlook Express 7.0, Microsoft Publisher,

Internet Explorer 7.0,  AVG Anti Virus (VISTA), PC Tools Firewall