STG0459

About Me

Currently, I live in Gilbertsvile, PA, but have lived several other places:

Minnesota

• Park Rapids
• Owatonna
• Good Thunder
• Mankato

California

• San Diego

Tennessee

• Nashville

New York

• Nanuet

Pennsylvania

• Limerick

I have also visited many other places:

US States:

• All except Alaska, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia.

Outside the US:

• Guam (Yes, I know Guam is a US territory)
• Phillippines
• Singapore
• Phuket, Thailand
• Sri Lanka - Technically I was there, but only for a few hours
• Bahrain
• United Arab Emirates
• Hong Kong
• Tijuana, Mexico

Some Things I have been associated with

• US Navy
• Mankato State University
• Vanderbilt University
• Wyeth
• Thermo Electron
• ASMS

Some Hobbies

• Photography, particularly Medium Format Photography (Pentax 645), and Digital photography (Canon EOS 30D). I still have a Canon EOS 630, but don't use it very often anymore.
• writing, and in particular the insanity known as NaNoWriMo, NaNoWriMo
  • My writing influences, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Robert McCammon, Douglas Adams, Tom Clancy
    • My Holy Trinity (or given the theme of the three books, maybe the "Unholy" trinity:
      • The White Plague
      • Swan Song
      • The Stand

• MS Flight Sim
• Music: Rush, Marillion, Metallica, CCR, Joe Satriani, Alan Jackson, The Beatles, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, George Thorogood, Pink Floyd, Queensryche, Stacy Mitchhart, Tom Petty, The Who
• Other interests to be added eventually

Some Other Interests/possible contributions

• ALS
• USS halsey DLG/CG-23
• Pentax 645
• Canon EOS 630