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I’m an English Professor—Shakespeare--whose first car, in 1960, was a “Bi-Centennial Edition” 1953 Ford 4-door sedan. The “Bi-Centennial Edition” was distinguished by a special horn-ring on the steering wheel, and little else. Trust me, I looked. And looked. And looked. (Honk if you remember horn-rings.)
My hobbies are woodworking, gardening, and computers--especially computer graphics and web page design. I’m only an amateur, but it’s still fun to see what you can make a web-page do. I’m a music and movie freak, with too many hundreds of CD’s (The people at Amazon know me as “One-Click Tom”) and a growing collection of DVD’s. (Hint: The normal hearing loss that starts at age 18 or 19 accelerates as you age. The trade-off is that when you are older you can afford a really terrific Dolby system to overcompensate for the loss.)
My Craftsman-style house was built in 1922, and when I bought it in 1980, it was basically redeemable junk. My Thunderbird looks spectacular in the old Craftsman porte cochere. After 22 years of hard work, I am proud to say that the house is no longer junk, except for the things I did twenty years ago, which now need re-doing.
I have owned standard poodles since I was 24. My wife and I currently have three standards, Gabriel, Gerard, and Dominic. Dominic is an overgrown miniature with the heart of a standard. Gabriel is huge--noticeably bigger than the two Dobermans, the smallish German Shepherd, and the Husky in his advanced obedience class. The poodles love to play in the woods and swim in the creek at our cabin near Hot Springs, Arkansas. Standards are pretty tough, believe it or not—Gerard and his now-deceased brother Jack once chased a bear away from the cabin. Okay, it was a smallish bear, and okay, it wanted to get the hell away once it realized we and the dogs were there. But you should have heard it roar! We have a pond with many goldfish and a cat, Grendel. (Hey, I said I was an English professor.)
My hobbies are woodworking, gardening, and computers--especially computer graphics and web page design. I’m only an amateur, but it’s still fun to see what you can make a web-page do. I’m a music and movie freak, with too many hundreds of CD’s (The people at Amazon know me as “One-Click Tom”) and a growing collection of DVD’s. (Hint: The normal hearing loss that starts at age 18 or 19 accelerates as you age. The trade-off is that when you are older you can afford a really terrific Dolby system to overcompensate for the loss.)
My Craftsman-style house was built in 1922, and when I bought it in 1980, it was basically redeemable junk. My Thunderbird looks spectacular in the old Craftsman porte cochere. After 22 years of hard work, I am proud to say that the house is no longer junk, except for the things I did twenty years ago, which now need re-doing.
I have owned standard poodles since I was 24. My wife and I currently have three standards, Gabriel, Gerard, and Dominic. Dominic is an overgrown miniature with the heart of a standard. Gabriel is huge--noticeably bigger than the two Dobermans, the smallish German Shepherd, and the Husky in his advanced obedience class. The poodles love to play in the woods and swim in the creek at our cabin near Hot Springs, Arkansas. Standards are pretty tough, believe it or not—Gerard and his now-deceased brother Jack once chased a bear away from the cabin. Okay, it was a smallish bear, and okay, it wanted to get the hell away once it realized we and the dogs were there. But you should have heard it roar! We have a pond with many goldfish and a cat, Grendel. (Hey, I said I was an English professor.)
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