Thursday, October 05, 2006
A Little Bit about Me--updated
I am a software consultant for for a major enterprise-level software company, and travel extensively in the US installing and customizing a product that collects, warehouses, and reports on computer system performance data. I have been in data processing for 25 years and it appears to suit my analytical penchant. (My formal training was as a chemist.)
I have been married to the same woman since June, 1982, and have two sons, a graduate with a multimedia degree from a private university, and one that was killed in a dune buggy accident in the early Fall of 2000. There are two children, now adults, who are like a son and a daughter, that we have raised ever since their mother, who was my wife's best friend, died of cancer. He is a Navy diver and EOD (explosive ordinance disposal) technician, and she is an Equity stage manager in Chicago. We have acquired extended family through involvement in our church, and one young woman and her husband call us Nother Mother and Nother Dad or Nothers for short. We are honorary grandparents of their daughter. Her parents are like a brother and sister to us.
I also had two dogs, Dalmatian littermates. The male, Chester, weighed 110+ lbs and looked more like a rotweiller with a spotted coat than a Dalmatian, and the female, Annie, who weighed about 50 lbs and looked like a classic Dalmatian but was too small. The male was the most laid-back dog I have ever had, and the female maked up for it. We had to put the male to sleep for a weak heart, about a three years ago, but before that, my oldest son's boxer, Billie the Kid, moved in with us. Annie had to be put to sleep in April of 2009. So we now have one dog.
I enjoy golf, downhill skiing, and ice skating, but only casually. I am a fairly accomplished woodworker, cook, and musician (At one time playing French horn, then singing tenor. My voice is gone now, so I direct the drama ministry at our church). Using my research discipline, I am in the midst of a a major study in Christianity. I am a theist, but not of any traditional version. I do try to deal with a number of philosophical, theistic and political issues, and have spent a lot of time considering such things over the past several years. I enjoy civilized discussion and am perfectly willing to see an idea of mine refuted, if I learn in the process. I suspect this blog will give me plenty of opportunity! :-))
I have been married to the same woman since June, 1982, and have two sons, a graduate with a multimedia degree from a private university, and one that was killed in a dune buggy accident in the early Fall of 2000. There are two children, now adults, who are like a son and a daughter, that we have raised ever since their mother, who was my wife's best friend, died of cancer. He is a Navy diver and EOD (explosive ordinance disposal) technician, and she is an Equity stage manager in Chicago. We have acquired extended family through involvement in our church, and one young woman and her husband call us Nother Mother and Nother Dad or Nothers for short. We are honorary grandparents of their daughter. Her parents are like a brother and sister to us.
I also had two dogs, Dalmatian littermates. The male, Chester, weighed 110+ lbs and looked more like a rotweiller with a spotted coat than a Dalmatian, and the female, Annie, who weighed about 50 lbs and looked like a classic Dalmatian but was too small. The male was the most laid-back dog I have ever had, and the female maked up for it. We had to put the male to sleep for a weak heart, about a three years ago, but before that, my oldest son's boxer, Billie the Kid, moved in with us. Annie had to be put to sleep in April of 2009. So we now have one dog.
I enjoy golf, downhill skiing, and ice skating, but only casually. I am a fairly accomplished woodworker, cook, and musician (At one time playing French horn, then singing tenor. My voice is gone now, so I direct the drama ministry at our church). Using my research discipline, I am in the midst of a a major study in Christianity. I am a theist, but not of any traditional version. I do try to deal with a number of philosophical, theistic and political issues, and have spent a lot of time considering such things over the past several years. I enjoy civilized discussion and am perfectly willing to see an idea of mine refuted, if I learn in the process. I suspect this blog will give me plenty of opportunity! :-))
// posted by Bill @ 10:28 PM 
