I was born in Georgia a couple of miles from the marker where GA, TN and NC meet. I found my first passion, reading, at the age of five. By age ten I had discovered kayaking, hiking and camping. I discovered what everyone discovers at fourteen or fifteen. Cars! Sports cars, eventually Triumph Spitfires and Saab Sonetts. At seventeen came scuba and computers courtesy of the US Navy. At twenty-three, marriage and a family forced me to start acting as nearly normal as possible while working in field service on all the many types of computers. Retirement several years ago from a technical consulting position and a 46th wedding anniversary celebrated 5/19/09 indicate I made a few good decisions over the years

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Some of the ways I try to help make the world a better place are http://www.nrdc.org/ , http://www.savebiogems.org/ , http://www.oceana.org/international-home-nao/ and http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/ among many others. Play time is kayaking, scuba, hiking, backpacking, camping and computers