Age:	56 (born 12 Sept 1951)
Favorite saying:	There'll be time enough for rest in the grave!
Competitive Philosophy:	I never hunt a grounded duck!
Favorite computer cursor:

If that's not enough for you, there's more about me below.

Personality

• So happy all the time that folks notice it quickly when I'm not
• Calm - I don't sweat the small stuff
• Don't smoke, don't drink - water, milk, and Pepsi is it!
• Confident, but not afraid to admit wrong (both times it happened )
• Optimistic
• Argumentative?

Family status

• Married 5 kids (my 2 plus her 3)
• Wife: Nancy (15 years - hardworking, beautiful, thrifty)
• Child1: Carmon (OSU graduate, living in Anchorage)
• Child2: Amy (stay at home mother of my grandson Daniel)
• Child3: John (working in accounting for his father)
• Child4: Holly (working mother of my grandson Nathan)
• Child5: Stephen (working for banking industry in New York)
• Dad: David (road construction foreman, passed away too young. I wish he could meet my grandsons, Nathan and Daniel!)
• Mother: Ruby (housewife, passed away - I still raise my hand towards the phone to give her a call!)

Employment:

• Full time webmaster! (except time spent on honey-do's I get from my beautiful wife)
• Retired! 35 years with Texas Instruments military division (bought out by Raytheon)
• Executive Staff (Communications)
• Business Development Manager
• Engineering Manager, Advanced Packaging Design
• Program Manager, Encryption Modules
• Manager, Hybrid/MCM Components Engineering
• Advanced Packaging Design Engineer
• Speech Writer
• Software System Manager
• Reliability Engineer

Hobbies

• Tennis - 4.5 level player, 5-8 times a week (most ever was 4 times in one day)
• Sci-Fi - Hard science is favorite (two picks are Lensman Series and Ender's Game)
• Programming - 3D, Visual Basic, Perl, JavaScript, HTML, author of freeware programs
• Fishing - In my dreams now that I sold my boat!
• Bridge - Used to play, but my partner dumped me
• Reading - Science News - the best technical magazine of all time!
• Misc - Word definitions, movies, history of science/math, computers

Education

• BSEE, Oklahoma State University

Things My Wife and I Do

• Every Friday/Saturday is date-night party-night (mostly movies)
• Talk a lot (unless we're mad at one another )!
• She makes a list of to-do's, I do them.
• She asks computer questions, I answer them.
• Eat out (cook at home mostly for family parties)
• I tell jokes and she doesn't laugh
• Exercise a lot (me at tennis, her at gym) - so why is she thin and I'm not?

Best Jokes

These are just the titles (except #4). If you want the full joke, you'll have to ask.
• #1 - No meat, no cheese!
• #2 - No ears
• #3 - Aggie at Harvard
• #4 - What engineers use for birth control (answer: their personality)
• #5 - Snail jokes
• #6 - Plus sign

Wisdom

These are the quotes that I most often use - wisdom of the ages.
• Life is good.
• Better is the enemy of good enough
• There's time enough for rest in the grave
• You bring happiness into a marriage, you don't get married to be happy
• If it don't come easy (relationships), you better let it go.
• Doing good is a reward in itself
• The only dumb question is the one you didn't ask
• If it ain't broke, don't fix it