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 26 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'm looking at "Final Retirement" early next year. Might as well start collecting Social Security while I'm still alive to collect it. I'm very fortunately that between my Military retirement, Federal Civil Service retirement, Social Security, I will be able to do some of things I haven't been able to. Yes maybe more travel, but this time at my leisure. Also plan on expanding this site which is very time consuming.

I enjoy building computers, and have built at least 2-dozen systems so far, also have become very computer literate with Windows 95/98/2K/XP/Vista, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and Hardware.

2004/2005/2006/2007/2008

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

My Homebuilt System

Jetway nForce 570 Sli Intel Edition nForce430 MCP DuaL Core Motherboard,

Intel Pentium D-830 3.0Mhz Dual Core  processor,
4.0 GB OCZ PC2-6400 DDR2 RAM,

Linksys Cable Modem

D-Link Wireless WBR-2310 Router

(Wife's Laptop using wireless)

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

EVGA GeForce 9500GT 1GB PCI Express x16 Video Card

Audigy 2 Surround Sound 6 Channel Sound Card

4 Cambridge Sound Works Speakers + Woofer

250GB Western Digital 7200rpm IDE Hard Drive,

160.0GB Western Digital 7200rpm Hard Drive

80.0GB Western Digital SATA 7200rpm Hard Drive

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

Samsung 20X Double Layer Dual Format DVD+RW/DVD/RW LIGHTSCRIBE Burner,

32 in 1 Card reader

All in a ENERX ENERMAX Phoenix ECA3092B Black SECC/ Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case Tower Case 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)

Epson Picture Mate Photo Lab

Microsoft Web Cam

“DUAL MONITORS”

17-inch Acer Black LCD Flat Panel Monitor using DVI

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 SP1 (32bit)

Office 2007, Outlook 7.0, Microsoft Publisher,

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