I am currently working as a Unix
Administrator for the College
of Engineering at the University
of
Michigan. After recently moving back to Ann Arbor (I
grew up here), I got interested in the UMSC as a place to
hang out and
do some sailing. I've sailed forever, my dad has had a couple
different boats over the years. We started out on a
Vandestadt & McGruer Spindrift,
a 13.4'
flat bottom dingy. My dad then got an O'Day 19'
Daysailer. Before he sold the Spindrift, I got a chance to
sail it on my own out at Gull Lake while I was a student at Western Michigan
as
a member of the Sailing Club &
Team. I found it to be a first class heavy wind boat.
It was a bit of a dog in lighter winds though, not
very fast. The O'Day is a much bigger boat and can accommodate
more people. Unfortunately, it doesn't encourage sailing too
close to the edge, due to it's lack of hiking straps and an unfortunate
teak rail that is uncomfortable to sit on.
I've been doing pottery now for a few years. I've
been pretty lax about posting pictures of my pottery, but you can see
some of my pottery on my art page. I've been doing improv for a
couple years too. Some other hobbies you will
find on my hobbies page are some of my current computer projects and
eventually I'll get up pictures and links for American Flyer and S-Guage
toy/model trains.
I will probably add more subjects as time goes on.
The local Ann Arbor News's comics page
leaves much to be desired, and my searches have found that the
online world holds a myriad of cool and unusual comics. None
of which are here. My Comics page (after I've finished it) has
daily comic strips I like that show up in most other newspapers
I've seen, but not the Ann Arbor News. As time goes on, I will try
to add links to other, less commercially oriented Manga and like
minded serious stuff, but that may be a ways off.
I like photography and purchased a digital
camera
some time ago that I play with from time to time and took with my on my
recent vacation to Sweden. Right now my photo page is horribly
disorganized and I just threw all the photos from my camera there and
haven't done anything with them yet, some are still not in the right
orientation. I hope to organize some time to fix that in the near
future.
I spent many happy weeks growing up in my
family's
camp in Vermont. When the local industry was sold to a larger
corporation in the early 1920s my great-grandfather, the factory
manager at the time (I think), bought the local vacation property
owned by the company. I feel very fortunate to be able to
call that place home for a good portion of my life (well at least
on vacation). I'll include postcards of the lake we're on as
well as pictures of some of our
cabins.