My homes over the years

The rats are leaving, sir. Shouldn't we go now, too?

As with most sites on the Web, my home page will be under construction most of the time.

�����Just a quick introduction. Debbie moved in with me on Valentine's Day 1988. I won't say it's been all hearts and flowers since then, but we are still together and doing pretty good. �����We have three children. Brennan arrived Nov. 10, 1988. He's been quite a handful, but he's also exceptionally smart. �����Chelsea came along 20 months later on Aug. 1, 1990. She likes to get her big brother in trouble. �����Samantha came into the world on Dec. 21, 1995. It was something of a circus in the birthing room. Brennan was there, along with two teen-age nieces (they swear they're never having babies after seeing what Debbie went through), grandma and me, of course. It may sound strange but it does make everyone a lot closer. It's a great experience if everyone, especially the mother, is amenable. �����Enough for now.

�����I am a NASCAR Winston Cup fan. My favorite driver is Mark Martin followed by Rusty Wallace. Dale Earnhardt is a good driver, but is probably a little too aggressive. I don't like the kid, Jeff Gordon.
�����I spent my formative years in Texas and I still have a few oddities in my speech that the discerning can hear.
�����I now live in Spokane, Washington, the heart of the Inland Empire and the largest city between Seattle and Minneapolis-St. Paul. This is really beautiful country.
�����As a Navy brat, and then being in the Navy myself, I spent my first 22 years moving around. Enough is enough. I'll stay here now.
�����My interests are reading Sci-Fi/Fantasy and non-fiction Historical books, watching movies, building plank-on-frame ship models and jig-saw puzzles (recently started 3-D puzzles.)
�����My favorite author is Anne McCaffrey and my favorite book is her "Dragonriders of Pern" trilogy. She has written several other books about Pern and I have them all.
�����I also like Piers Anthony. His "Double Exposure" trilogy consisting of, "Split Infinity", "Blue Adept" and "Justaposition", an interesting mixture of Sci-Fi and Sci-Fantasy, is my favorite of his books.

�����I am also getting into my family genealogy. My paternal great-grandfather hailed from Ohio, but I haven't been able to get any farther back on that line.
�����My father's mother's side is much better researched. It started when Thomas Hardy came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with Gov. Winthrop in 1630. He accompanied John Winthrop Jr. to Agawam. They purchased that land from the Indians. It became the town of � Ipswich, MA. It is estimated that there are some 25,000 descendants of Thomas Hardy in the U.S. now. That's a lot of cousins.
�����I will create a separate genealogy page at some time in the future. As of Feb. '98 this should be very soon, I hope. :-)

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive anyway. � 1998���