Life before IBM:

• Sept 1974 to July 1979: I worked for the Board of Cooperative Educational Services in Fredonia, NY in Television services.

  I was responsible for the repair and maintenance of televisions, VCRs, a 10-site television translator system, a video tape duplication center, and mobile television production van.

• Aug 1973 to July 1974: Attended the Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa, Oklahoma to study avionics (aviation electronics).

• Before all of the above: I grew up in Gerry, NY, a small town six miles North of Jamestown, NY. There was a general store, hardware store, diner, a post office, and one flashing red light at the main intersection.

  We lived next door to the grade school that I attended (more than once my teacher had to let me go round up some of my chickens that had decided to stroll outside their fence).

  Gerry was named after Elbridge Gerry, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and is pronounced with a hard "G", just like Gary, IN.

  Perhaps the more known claim to fame of Gerry is that it hosts the longest running rodeo East of the Mississippi. For five days each year, the volunteer firemen (and practically the rest of the town) work at the rodeo grounds serving "authentic" barbeque beef dinners (they even have a "secret" recipe barbeque sauce that is prepared right there), selling tickets, running concessions, directing traffic, etc. Of course, the show itself, is put on by a professional rodeo company, with steer wrestling, calf roping, bare-back bronc riding, bull riding, and other rodeo events.

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Some of my hobbies:

• Do-it-yourself projects.
• Working on cars.
• Tinkering with electronic stuff...although not as much as I'd like to anymore.

Some stuff drawn by my daughter:

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