Friday 12 Dec OT Thread - Who Are You?

I started this thread early perhaps too early - but its the only one I'll ever start so perhaps 'they' will forgive my impetuosity.

I'm very interested to hear more about you who posts here at Virtual Dr.

What job do you do in the 'Real World' ?

What hobbies do you have ?

What areas of computing interests you ?


Any input welcome - I only posted this Q. as I'm inherently nosey - but it might encourage other 'Lurkers' like me might to give some feedback on themselves and what brought them here.

I am the terror that flaps in the night...

I am the auditor who wants to look at your books

I am the batteries that aren't included

I am the blown fuse that blacks you out

I am the bubble gum that sticks in your hair

I am the bubble gum that sticks to your shoe

I am the burned out bulb you can not reach

I am the butter that burns in your pan

I am the cat that should be let out of the bag

I am the check that overdraws your account

I am the check writer in the cash only lane

I am the chill that runs up your spine

I am the clock cleaner who will ring your chimes

I am the cloud that rains on your hit parade

I am the cold sore that stings your lips

I am the combination lock on the vault of justice

I am the current of vengeance gurgling through your sewer

I am the editor that cuts your scene

I am the editor that leaves you on the cutting room floor

I am the fast food that comes back to haunt you

I am the feathery phantom that haunts your nightmares

I am the fingernail that scrapes the chalkboard of your soul

I am the flea you cannot flick

I am the ghost of a chance that you don't have

I am the grade curve that gives you an 'F'

I am the hairball that clogs your drain

I am the hair in the lens of your projector

I am the ham radio operator that scrambles your reception

I am the headache in the criminal mind

I am the Heimlich maneuver for the choking victims of crime

I am the hero that every culture needs

I am the icky bug that crawls up your trouser leg

I am the ingrown toenail in your paddy pumps

I am the ingrown toenail on the foot of crime

I am the itch you can not reach

I am the jackal that gnaws at your bones

I am the jailer who throws away the key

I am the limestone that petrifies your bones

I am the little mouse that eats your cheese

I am the lollipop that sticks in your hair

I am the low point in your sine wave

I am the low rating that cancels your program

I am the metal key on the sardine can of justice

I am the meter on the taxicab of justice

I am the moth that seeks your porch light

I am the muddy shoes that track the linoleum of crime

I am the neurosis that requires a $500 an hour shrink

I am the number ninety sunblock that'll stop your burn

I am the onion that stings in your eyes

I am the original Mr. Fix-it

I am the paper cut that ruins your morning

I am the parking meter that expires while you shop

I am the pebble in the shoe of ignominy

I am the pencil that breaks from signing too many autographs

I am the pimple that forms before a really big date

I am the pin that will burst your bubble

I am the pitbull that bites the ankle of crime

I am the plot twist in the second reel

I am the principal you are sent to see

I am the pustules blister that bursts in your boot

I am the quality time that ruins your play time

I am the raspberry seed you can't floss out

I am the repairman who tells you your warranty just ran out

I am the rhinestones on the jump suit of justice

I am the rust in the pipes of crime

I am the sandtrap on the fairway of evil

I am the schnauzer that digs up your petunias

I am the scrubbing bubble to criminal scum

I am the single career man all women want to date

I am the slug that slimes your begonias

I am the smoke that smokes smoked oysters

I am the soap scum that lines your bathtub

I am the special news bulletin that interrupts your favorite show

I am the spinach that sticks in your teeth

I am the squeaky stair that gives away your presence

I am the squashed bug on your flying saucer windshield

I am the stain that can't be rubbed out

I am the substantial and inescapable penalty for early withdrawal

I am the super nova at the center of the universe

I am the surprise in your cereal box

I am the switch that derails your train

I am the $10 service charge on all returned checks

I am the termite that devours your floor boards

I am the thing that goes bump in the night

I am the tube of cadmium yellow that's impossible to open

I am the water balloon that lands right on your head

I am the weedwhacker in the garden of evil

I am the weirdo that sits next to you on the bus

I am the widget missing from the easy to assemble swingset

I am the winged scourge that pecks at your nightmares

I am the wrong number that wakes you at 3:00 a.m.

I am the zit that forms when you got a really big date

"Who am I?" :p

Actually those answers to your question maybe found in my or others profile...

Quote:

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Originally posted by Fuelm@n
I am the terror that flaps in the night...

I am the auditor who wants to look at your books

I am the batteries that aren't included

I am the blown fuse that blacks you out

I am the bubble gum that sticks in your hair

I am the bubble gum that sticks to your shoe

I am the burned out bulb you can not reach

I am the butter that burns in your pan

I am the cat that should be let out of the bag

I am the check that overdraws your account

I am the check writer in the cash only lane

I am the chill that runs up your spine

I am the clock cleaner who will ring your chimes

I am the cloud that rains on your hit parade

I am the cold sore that stings your lips

I am the combination lock on the vault of justice

I am the current of vengeance gurgling through your sewer

I am the editor that cuts your scene

I am the editor that leaves you on the cutting room floor

I am the fast food that comes back to haunt you

I am the feathery phantom that haunts your nightmares

I am the fingernail that scrapes the chalkboard of your soul

I am the flea you cannot flick

I am the ghost of a chance that you don't have

I am the grade curve that gives you an 'F'

I am the hairball that clogs your drain

I am the hair in the lens of your projector

I am the ham radio operator that scrambles your reception

I am the headache in the criminal mind

I am the Heimlich maneuver for the choking victims of crime

I am the hero that every culture needs

I am the icky bug that crawls up your trouser leg

I am the ingrown toenail in your paddy pumps

I am the ingrown toenail on the foot of crime

I am the itch you can not reach

I am the jackal that gnaws at your bones

I am the jailer who throws away the key

I am the limestone that petrifies your bones

I am the little mouse that eats your cheese

I am the lollipop that sticks in your hair

I am the low point in your sine wave

I am the low rating that cancels your program

I am the metal key on the sardine can of justice

I am the meter on the taxicab of justice

I am the moth that seeks your porch light

I am the muddy shoes that track the linoleum of crime

I am the neurosis that requires a $500 an hour shrink

I am the number ninety sunblock that'll stop your burn

I am the onion that stings in your eyes

I am the original Mr. Fix-it

I am the paper cut that ruins your morning

I am the parking meter that expires while you shop

I am the pebble in the shoe of ignominy

I am the pencil that breaks from signing too many autographs

I am the pimple that forms before a really big date

I am the pin that will burst your bubble

I am the pitbull that bites the ankle of crime

I am the plot twist in the second reel

I am the principal you are sent to see

I am the pustules blister that bursts in your boot

I am the quality time that ruins your play time

I am the raspberry seed you can't floss out

I am the repairman who tells you your warranty just ran out

I am the rhinestones on the jump suit of justice

I am the rust in the pipes of crime

I am the sandtrap on the fairway of evil

I am the schnauzer that digs up your petunias

I am the scrubbing bubble to criminal scum

I am the single career man all women want to date

I am the slug that slimes your begonias

I am the smoke that smokes smoked oysters

I am the soap scum that lines your bathtub

I am the special news bulletin that interrupts your favorite show

I am the spinach that sticks in your teeth

I am the squeaky stair that gives away your presence

I am the squashed bug on your flying saucer windshield

I am the stain that can't be rubbed out

I am the substantial and inescapable penalty for early withdrawal

I am the super nova at the center of the universe

I am the surprise in your cereal box

I am the switch that derails your train

I am the $10 service charge on all returned checks

I am the termite that devours your floor boards

I am the thing that goes bump in the night

I am the tube of cadmium yellow that's impossible to open

I am the water balloon that lands right on your head

I am the weedwhacker in the garden of evil

I am the weirdo that sits next to you on the bus

I am the widget missing from the easy to assemble swingset

I am the winged scourge that pecks at your nightmares

I am the wrong number that wakes you at 3:00 a.m.

I am the zit that forms when you got a really big date

"Who am I?" :p

Actually those answers to your question maybe found in my or others profile...

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I am the administrator that says Holy Moly. BJ

I am the Dreaded Leurgy that always thinks, "Did you have to quote the whole thing?"

I am the Eggman
I am the Walrus

Ed in real world. Live central USA Been a cowboy all my life . Started record keeping on cattle about 1970 this led to needing a puter to keep track of things, first one a 32k raido shack. Got interested in what made them work never been to school day one on puter's. All self taught I now do repairs pc and LAN and sell pc's to friends. My cowboy days aren't as active as they used to be but still run a cow herd, do a lot of bovine proctology work for other's AI preg test and test Bulls ect. Still do some cattle roping ect but has slowed a lot with age , don't compete in Rodeos anymore, just general ranch work. My hobbie is 8 Ball Pool as I am capatain of 2 teams for league play. APA and a local League also.

I am,what I am.

Actually:

I'm retired

I'm married, with grandchildren

I boat-with a 40 year old classic cruiser of 28 feet.

I read-but,not enough.

I run, but not enough

I ski, when their's good snow.

I don't drink,smoke or do drugs, but I gamble a little(man's gotta have some vices)

I enjoy working with and on computers(I'm typing this in Linux-SuSe 9.0.)

I like living in the north, I like the winters and only go south for vacations.

I like football,baseball,college basketball and, of course, hockey.

That's about it.

Howdy:

I am a career Deputy Fire Chief for the last 13 or so years and a career firefighter for 10 years before that..

For relaxation, my wife and I like to get away camping (tent, campstove, the "real" camping) :D

As for hobbies, playing with/working on my computer and those that friends want me to look at !!

Murray

I'm what I am aswell, married, three children (all grown up and left the nest), two dogs, two cats, two goats called Thelma and Louise.

I'm also retired.

Most of my time is spent looking after horses. At present we have 4, one large gelding who is in competition and doing ok. Similar horse now retired and suffering from arthritis but it's under control and two rescue jobbies, all doing well even though winter is now with us.

I like a bit of a small gamble aswell but only on horses when ridden by a jockey.

It's amazing how my wife and I can identify an outsider at least coming in the first three.

I also think I spend too much time on Vdr, at least the wife says I do but she doesn't really object aslong as I've done my chores.

Tjolly, tell her at least you are not in the local pub. That shut mine up.


6 fixin to be 8 grandkids in a few months.
Llike messing with computers and helping folks. Besides, if I can read and understand folks, they then do not need to scream for me to hear them.


Working on my second retirement now. Not old enough for social security yet. :D

Im recently retired after working as an engineer at local hospital for 15 years. Im single, after being married for many years, have one daughter & two grandsons, whom I love dearly. Have been into computers since about 1997, had to because my work, place all went computerized. Now I spend much of my time here helping people when I can & trying to keep the forums up & running as smooth as possible. Thru my work & hanging out here I have learned a lot & enjoy sharing what I have learned with all of you. BJ

Considered just saying something 'cute',but what the hey...

Born n' raised up in a mill town here in Oregon. Graduated High School and became a 'sliver picker' for Georgia Pacific here in their plywood plant. Uncle Sam blew his whistle at me 'bout the time we got into it in Southeast Asia(Nam). Lost a' couple years and a' bit of flesh over there. Several more years pickin' the slivers then school. University life not for me. got a degree in drafting(long before CAD)and one in water quality control from comm. colleges. Spent 15 years as a State Park Ranger, then 10 as a leased operator in Interstate Trucking. Maintenance Supervisor for hospitals 'til '98. Triple bypass,knee surgery and Docs and my Attorney screamin' at me to retire finally sunk in. Bored stiff in '98. Daughter asked why i didn't get into computin'. Decided,aww what the h--l and bought a shop made 'Frankenstein'. Never entered that 'shop' again :mad: but it was a real learning experience replacing the out-of-date hardware and such to keep that monster running. Started building my own after that and now build and repair for family and friends as a hobby.
Love to fly fish and tie my own flies,build my own rods. Marriage went bye-bye long ago,but have a great Daughter and two beautiful Grandaughters 13 and 5 years.
Guess it goes without saying that i'm re-tired?? :D

Hi This is Angel for those humans not bright enough to know I am a cat, and my Mum was also in the volunteer bush fire brigade, got caught in a firestorm once and made me glad that cats don't have to fight fires. I have been treading the keyboards of computers for nearly twelve years and I am proud to say I have caused at least three reformats in my time. The person who feeds me is an Economist by profession and now runs an IT company, having been helped through the long nights of study by yours truly to learn Computer Science. Whats this "something wicked this way comes" is it Calpitor, Fuelm@an, OH no it is Jenae.

Who am I?

I'm old. :D I have one beautiful daughter who gave me two beautiful granddaughters 10, and 20. And I have two beautiful great grandchildren, a boy 4 and a girl almost a year. I am widowed, and still single by choice.

My hobbies are computers and photography. I started college at age 42 graduated with a B. A. in journalism and a minor in computer science. I got interested in pc's when a boyfriend said I should buy a "real" computer when my Mac wouldn't handle ICQ. ;) Now I still work on, and build pc's but the boyfriend is gone by the way. :D

My only other hobbie is fly fishing, although, I don't tie my own flies, I think maybe I'd like to try sometime. When fishing: I take my cameras, and if they ain't biting, I shoot birds, and deer, and moose....or what ever catches my eye.

Janae? "something wicked this way comes" is it Calpitor? Glad to know I've made a new friend. Had to read that twice BTW :D And now on to my favourite subject ME!

Who am I? I spent several years and too much money at Queen's University asking just that question after I established that I did indeed exist and didn't really come up with a satisfactory answer. ;) Somehow I managed to escape with a B PH, a MA ENGL, a wealth of knowledge of hoticultural skills devoted to growing a certain green leafy substance, and my true calling in life: cooking.

At the time my parents were less than amused to say the least but they were supportive enough to see their professional student off to cooking school. A year later I was apprenticing at the Chateau Laurier, Ottawa's premier hotel at the time, two years later I lost my father and I spent my inheritance on another two years education at the Cordon Bleu in Paris France. I came back to Ottawa and made a tour of the local hotels and finer restaurants until I landed a position as personal chef to the British High Commissioner to Canada. Looking to expand my horizons I accepted a position as Sous Chef at the Beverly Hills Hilton for a couple of years and then moved to San Diego's Hotel Del Coronado and then to the Princess Cruise Lines where I got to see nothing but the inside of the ship while we set sail to exotic ports like Alaska, Fiji and Hawaii. Well that's a bit of an exageration but a few hours in Honolulu out of the four days we were docked just weren't enough. I tell you I had never worked so hard in my life and haven't since. Ten hour shifts: ten hours on, ten hours off. Those of you who have taken a cruise will atest to the fact that aboard ship you can eat 24 hours a day. It is literally a buffet that never closes. YUM!

I came back to Ottawa for a much deserved rest. After about a month of being a lay about I did contract work for various hotels and restaurants creating ice sculptures. The last sculpture I was working on was close to fifteen feet high and it collapsed with me under it. In addition to a year of therapy I went, you guessed it, back to school. This time I was destined to be flying a desk and I took up computer science. My disability status got me a job right away with the federal government and my degrees all of a sudden didn't sound like such a waste of time and money. About 3 years ago I took a "Golden Parachute" and opened a small, but successful, business repairing P.C.s.

Somewhere along the line I found the time to have a life. I've been married for almost ten years to a beautiful woman. Forgive me if this offends you but if I were to ask you that after all this time together it is still only her I picture when I fantasize does this sound normal? We have only one son he's smart as a whip, articulate and healthy who could ask for more? The three of us go fly fishing as well my wife is doing a great job of teaching us how. :p In the winter we support the Senators and I sit in the chalet while my wife teaches my son how to ski. I sit on my son's school council, do good works with the local Big Brother and Sisters Agency and help organize the local soccer and hockey leagues.

Wow. You folks have done so many different things. Ridgrunr, sliver-picker and long-haul trucker. Calpitor! Chef/ice sculptor (the most unusual workplace accident I think I've ever heard of, sounds terrible)/perpetual student/world traveler/official chef to important government official (so cool of you to say how your wife still is jailbait for you!!). eddds40, zowie. Never knew we had a cowboy on here. How incredibly cool. I liked the part about cattle proctology too, sounds, er, deep (ha ha).

By comparison I'm sure I am very boring. I'm a 54-year-old woman married 23 years to a 55-year-old public defender in Philadelphia. After 15 years there, he worked his way up to the glorious (prestigious) or inglorious special-defense unit: nasty cases, high-publicity (one day he left court after a hearing and was stunned to have a flock of reporters jump out in front of him). Eventually he'll try murders after some orientation as "second chair" (with another veteran). Ugh, huh? It's high-stress, but gets the blood of a lawyer racing, believe it or not.

Hubby used to be a reporter at a suburban newspaper, then an organizer for the Newspaper Guild in Philadelphia. Went to law school at age 36. Fits him to a T. He's that showman type.

Me, I've mostly been a journalist for 25-plus years, and mostly a copy editor (in Britain they call them subs editors). That means a whole bunch of different things: Working with a reporter to clarify things, find missing facts, tweak the tone of a story. Sometimes one might say the story is lame through and through and must be held out of the paper.

One has to almost know everything. That in addition, of course, to grammar, spelling, style. I also write picture captions (hate it!) and headlines (love 'em!). I work with a great group of people many of whom I've known since the late '70s. We have fun and I can tell you it almost never is boring.

And then there was the 6 years in the 1990s when I worked as a social worker (adoption for a year, then psychotherapy the rest of the time) after going back to school for a master's in social services (like an MSW really). It was the best school experience I've ever had, I loved it, I loved the subject matter (it was a very clinically oriented school, that is to say focused on clients and patients and how they ticked; a great deal on mental health and mental illness).

I worked at one point for a large managed-care mental-health practice and over 4 or 5 years had a core of about 10 clients with whom I worked long-term. They are wonderful people. I feel privileged to have had them. Some of them had stories to tell that would curl your hair or shock you. Some of them weathered incredibly horrible personal circumstances. I can never, ever feel sorry for myself again knowing these people; compared to them (and I never would have believed this 20 years ago), my family was/is functional, loving and nurturing. I don't have a problem!

It's like I told one person, you couldn't make this stuff up. You just never knew what a person is going to come to your office with.

But at any rate, managed care has managed (!) only to make a mess of the American health-care system, which is a long way of saying that I just couldn't make a living at it really. I didn't have the longer experience and supervision to be able to go out on my own; I didn't have the time to try and get that so I could survive. All the old structures for social service are just gone. I just kind of said oh, whatever, and drifted back to my old newspaper. I was there 8 years in the '80s and early '90s, and now have been back 5 years (4 of them as a fill-in). Life is too short and I needed to help send my boy to college someday.

And yes, my boy! How do I describe him. He is the love and joy of my life. We tried for 10 years to have a baby (5 tries at IVF), and in the 11th year (as I told Nick), we found his wonderful birthmother, Angie, and she consented to having us become his parents. We are still close to Angie and her ups and downs and her two children since then. We plan to go see her in 2004. We shared so much of the end of her pregnancy and his birth.

Nick is 11 now, a funny (in training to open for Billy Crystal; loves Mr. Bean), tender, kind boy, somewhat rowdy (boys! They must all be), loves animals (I don't want to tell you how many pets we have, it would take too long), babies and small children (he just finished a 4-H baby-sitting course! They gave him a certificate and everything!) (he routinely plays with the smaller kids in the neighborhood, and is very good at looking after them while their moms take care of household chores). Has the voice of an angel, I am trying to get him more involved in the school chorus. Desperately wants an ATV, a PlayStation 2 (coming this Christmas), a Mazda!! He is Mommy's Sweetheart!

Sigh. I'll try to attach pictures below.

Cheers,
Wendy
:D :D :D

At first, I thought that this post was a bad idea. Anonymity has its advantages, and sometimes its better not to know the others on a personal level. But then again, this is a forum and not a chat, and it has its differences.
Besides that, I was pretty curious about you all, so this turned out to be a nice OT topic. Now a bit about myself.
I was born in Denmark, moved to America (8 years), move to London (4 years) and now live in Israel (my final destination). I am only 25 years old, but am happily married for 3 years with my beautiful wife who I met through an IRC chat.
I spent 2.5 years in the Israeli army, and after went on to study Network Management.
I currently work in IBM in the sales department. I specialize in their laptops, but also sell servers, desktops and SW.
In my spare time I spend as much time with my computer as I can, both on VDR (hope my boss doesn't find out how much I am on at work), gaming and fooling around with my computers. I love learning about computers, and after I finish my M$ exams (MCP, MCSE) I plan on studying PC Tech, and working in that field.

As the starter of the thread -

I'm 34, Single and currently residing in N W London.

I am self employed - I do research for law firms in the field of property / real estate transactions. I also as a sideline do research on behalf of people interested in genealogy.

In my ample free time I enjoy computing, reading mainly history non fiction, and whenever possible travelling. The last foreign vacation I had was in May 97 when I toured Europe with an American lady ... we're not in contact now (she got her glasses back from the Opticians :o :) ) - but we did 3500 miles and managed to at least take in some of the sights in Amsterdam, Munich, Venice, Rome, Monaco, and Paris.

Thanks to every one who has posted - its always interesting to get a little insight into the other people here.

Also - Seasons Greetings to all members.


Richard.

Who am I?
Its hard to follow the so eloquent responses of other forum members around this little world of ours.
So far yet so near...........

Strong silent type,Mid 40s [cough] [balding :rolleyes: ] Male living [not a million miles from TJ] in the Heart of Cheshire near Delamere Forest.
I have had many occupations over the years living in both Scotland and Ireland too [love their Guinness] from Barman to paint sprayer but ended up not that many miles from where I was born and at the moment I work for a well known local Yoghurt manufacturer.
I play with computers in my spare time learning by my own mistakes.

Hmm.....Looks kinda boring looking at the other posts :D :D

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Originally posted by 104456
Who am I?
Its hard to follow the so eloquent responses of other forum members around this little world of ours.
So far yet so near...........

Strong silent type,Mid 40s [cough] [balding :rolleyes: ] Male living [not a million miles from TJ] in the Heart of Cheshire near Delamere Forest.
I have had many occupations over the years living in both Scotland and Ireland too [love their Guinness] from Barman to paint sprayer but ended up not that many miles from where I was born and at the moment I work for a well known local Yoghurt manufacturer.
I play with computers in my spare time learning by my own mistakes.

Hmm.....Looks kinda boring looking at the other posts :D :D

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OK

I will admit my background.

I really didn't want to say this because so many people hate the Police.

I am a retired Detective and now I am self employed, privately, so all I do is investigate what the police do now and assist defence solicitors by interviewing people after the fact, because not what is said in a statement to the police is what is really meant. In other words I confirm or deny what has been said or add something else that was never asked in the first place etc.

I also do PI work which I find very amusing and entertaining.

TJolly,

I don't think anyone among those here at VDr are anti the police. Certainly nobody wants a speeding ticket - but the overall benefit of having a civil police force can hardly be overstated. As for the 'Rent - a - mob' that turns out for any protest purely to 'have a go' .... well what is their value to the community ?

I have many relatives who are / were long service military personnel who served honourably to the best of their ability - yet I can recall teachers in the 80's who reviled HM Forces as a 'fascist war machine' and Britain as the 'Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier'.

Strangely none of them felt inspired enough to actually go to a Third World country and back up their words with deeds :rolleyes:

If anyone has a problem with your former profession then, so what ? I bet they'd have been glad of your assistance if they were being pursued down a street by one of the current beneficiaries of 'care in the community'.

Have a Good Christmas.


Richard.

After reading all the data on my friends in here, I feel like my life is so tame..

I am a former Bank worker, former Computer Analyst, former Computer Operations Manager, former Technical Analyst, former student, and Graduate. (Lots of formers in my life these days).
I am a present Father of three young men from 21 to 11, and present husband one one woman for 27 or so years.
I operate Computers now, and tinker with consulting, and running my private network and trying to help people learn more along the way.

I like the forum, and feel like I actually have some friends here just through the communication, and the help that has been given to me. I plan to hang around a long time, and hope you all will have me around too.

I think I have to end now, I feel like I'm rambling a bit.
Going to be fun to find out a bit more about some others too, I'll be watching.

TJolly,,and anyone else concerned. After being involved in many search/rescue operations here on the Pacific Coast as a Park Ranger, and the many times i received help from the local police,sheriff's dept. and the Coast Guard helicopter rescue units. I have nothing but admiration for all they accomplish and their dedication to serving us all! :)

Dun'no about the PI occupation tho',,,would scare the be'jeezus out'ta me if i were caught by a cheatin' wife while doing surveilance...:p :eek:

I am trained as a Psychologist, specialising in Grief Management but sometimes you need a bit of time out from this work. More recently, I have sold Real Estate and I have set up a Computer Consultancy for corporate clients with a moderate level of success. Might revert if I have to. :D

AnnMarie, I'm so impressed. Not only is your avatar very elegant, but you always seem to know exactly what the diagnosis is with people's computer woes and can tell them step by step how to fix them! You seem brilliant to me. You lay out things I can't even imagine what you're saying! But it sounds so concise.

TJolly, how could we have a problem with the police here? My sense is that many of us who have responded to this post are, er, pushing over the other side of the hill. We are certainly not in a generation to welcome anarchy. . . . At any rate, it's nice to hear you do some investigating for defense attorneys because that is, of course, what my husband does. Lots of good guys who do the same in his office.

Besides, my husband fought in Vietnam. First lieutenant and platoon leader. I'm proud to say so (even though I marched against the war, and actually, he would have . . . later).

As for you folks who think you have 'boring' lives, please remember that you have traveled around Europe, Israel, the wide-open spaces out west -- most of which I have not seen. I went to Europe precisely once in my life: in 1974, when my parents were on sabbatical in Germany and Austria (my dad's a retired music professor, now age 90). I met them in Luxembourg, we took the train to Paris and I stayed just one week (and of course, it rained the entire time, worse luck).

My husband's family is from Greece (they actually still have houses on the island of Nysseros), but he's such a Philadelphia homeboy (grew up in a place called Brewerytown, and you can imagine their chief industry!), we practically never go anywhere. One day we hope to go to Greece, Egypt and Israel. But I don't know when.

My sister is a United Methodist minister and district superintendent (overseer of maybe 30 or 40 churches in Northeast Philadelphia and Lower Bucks County), and she used to work for the bishop of the conference here. As such she has been all over the world on church business -- she has a bad habit of calling me and after a chat about our families or whatever, she'll say, "Next week when I go to Nigeria [or Nepal or Brazil or Chile or Cameroon] -- did I tell you I was going to Nigeria???" No, Michele, you didn't!! :rolleyes: I envy her. She once got to meet the U.N. secretary general.

Cheers,
Wendy
;) :cool: :D

PS The attached is me 8 years ago. I'm not willing to show myself as I am today! A little chubbier, a little grayer. But you get the idea . . .

Hi TJolly, my father was a policeman, I grew up in country police stations on the North Coast of NSW , pop will be 100 in june 2004, making him the oldest retired cop in the land. My brother was also a policeman and he sadly died shortly after retirement. My sister married a policeman, he was a senior office in the QLD force. He has also retired. So my friend I am proud of my family and the service they gave. My Mother was the one who sufferred most as Pop would be out and Mum had to run the station, got a bit too much for her at times.

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TJolly,,and anyone else concerned. After being involved in many search/rescue operations here on the Pacific Coast as a Park Ranger, and the many times i received help from the local police,sheriff's dept. and the Coast Guard helicopter rescue units. I have nothing but admiration for all they accomplish and their dedication to serving us all! :)

Dun'no about the PI occupation tho',,,would scare the be'jeezus out'ta me if i were caught by a cheatin' wife while doing surveilance...:p :eek:

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Ridge I don't do surveillance. PI stands for Personal Injury.

Thanks to all who have shown support for the Police, I do appreciate it.

I served for 31yrs. I don't miss the job only the perople I worked with.

My wife is still a serving Police Officer and she is due to retire in the next 3yrs or so.

Sorry if this is long

OK here goes...

Im a 20 year old male living in 'sunny' Nottingham, UK.

I was born in a place called Chesterfield, which is not to far from where i am now.

Born to Cypriot refugee parents who moved away from Cyprus after the 1974 invasion of the Turkish.

I could have very nearly have been an Aussie, as my parent where gonna move to Sydney which is where my mums brother and his wife moved too, but something went wrong with the Immigration papers:(

After school i went to college to do computers, and then left there.

I found myself wanting to be independent at a early age, so started work at 15, have been sort of independent-ish since then.

ive been into computers for along time, and want a career in IT, iam learning through self study and hopefully ill acheive what i want.

I also wanna go travelling and have a long list of places and counties i would like to visit, which is one my reasons for my OT i started some weeks ago.

The furthest i have been so far is Australia, which was top of my 'list' i went there to stay with my Uncle for 3 months around a year and a half ago, in Sydney.

Oh and on the way back i stopped of in Tokyo, Japan for 4 days, which was so cool, it would have been better if i could talk/understand the language:)

I loved it so much that i was so upset to leave and felt kinda depressed ever since comming back:(

So my plans are too save enough money and travel the world, and then hopefully go back to Sydney and live and work there for a bit.

Sorry TJolly,,mind had a 'Yank' take on it when I saw 'PI' . Watched too many telly shows i 'spose...:D

English born.

Migrated to Australia when i was 11 have been here 26 years in April 2004.

Married 9 years 3 months.

Son 4 years 4 months old

Second Son or first daughter due January 7 2004.

Been using computers since about 1980 at school - Apple IIe.

Got Commodore 64 when I started my first job in 1985 as trainee computer programmer - my job was using COBOL, the C64 was just for home usage.

First PC was a loan from brother in law - 486 SX33 with 4 Mb ram and 200Mb Hd.

Upgraded that to 486 DX66 with 20Mb ram extra 1Gb hd, 8x CD-ROM and sound card and it rocked for a while.

Nix, let us know about the baby when he/she comes -- and please, do post a picture!! (And one of your 4-year-old)

Good luck to you, and here's hoping your wife has an easy delivery!!

Cheers
Wendy
:D ;) :cool:

Pah......theyre all easy ......you just stand in the waiting room with a ciggie until it arrives :rolleyes: :D :D [heads for cover from female members]

All easy? I don't think so. Our son's dear birthmother suffered through 30 hours of very hard labor. Finally had to have a C-section. We were there right up to the end but had to leave because they ended up having to anesthetize her.

Whoo. Don't get me started.

Cheers,
Wendy
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

104456
Boy, youve done it know:D:D

Well i guess we shall see after you come out of you dark hole that youve managed to dig:D

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Nix, let us know about the baby when he/she comes -- and please, do post a picture!! (And one of your 4-year-old)

Good luck to you, and here's hoping your wife has an easy delivery!!

Cheers
Wendy
:D ;) :cool:

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Thanks last time she laboured for 20 hours with 3 hours of hard work at the end only to have a c-section cause his head was in a funny position. :(

Here's the pic of my boy

I am the only member from Iraq, I am a mechanical engineer with 23 years of experience, working in Malaysia for the past 8 years, for a multi million dollar land developers as a senior manager, have 3 kids, my eldest just got married today, love computers and enjoy games, stopped drinking, still smoke a cigarette or two a day, dream about going back home (Baghdad).
enjoy being here at VirtualDr.com

My name is Luke, I live in Michigan (few miles from Detroit) I am 22 and have lived here my whole life. I have a job as the information systems specialist for the city of Madison Heights.
The best part of my job is that I get to know everyone who works for the city (cops, firefighters, city council and mayor). I guess come election time I get to vote for my bosses (Mayor and city council). :D

I love music (I write and play all sorts of music). I have been playing guitar for 6 years now, I also finished a course for Drumming and music theory. I have 7 guitars at home, 1 Bass Guitar and a Drum set (Can't play 2 of my guitars because they are signed). I have a wonderfull girlfreind who I have been dating for 2 years now. What else.....Oh, I a a 93' Ford Taraus (Will be getting rid of soon enough). I like playing golf, going bowling, getting to the gym, swimming and traveling.

I love going to my grandparents place in East Jordan (northern Michigan). They have a lot of land (180 acres I think) and the area is beautifull. They are only a few miles from Boyne Mountain, I really want to learn how to ski or snowboard so that I can there some day.

Uh....what else...One of favorite Restuarnts in the area is Buffalo Wild Wings. Oh...And for Christmas I want an MBox or a Digi one system (Recording equipment that hooks up to my computer and has editing/mixing software). :cool:

I hope there was enough setail in there.

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104456
Boy, youve done it know:D:D

Well i guess we shall see after you come out of you dark hole that youve managed to dig:D

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Just thought Id see how many females were on line :D :D

No..... I really do appreciate the pain that women go through in child birth and am sure many men would run a mile given the same senario[I know Id be well ahead of them all ].:D :D

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Just thought Id see how many females were on line :D :D

No..... I really do appreciate the pain that women go through in child birth and am sure many men would run a mile given the same senario[I know Id be well ahead of them all ].:D :D

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Nice comeback;)