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1932 - Age 8 months Hell, you gotta start somewhere, doncha? |
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1935 - Age 3 I'm the Cute One on the Right |
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1937 - Age 5 Ready for Kindergarten at Kensington Elementary, Kansas City |
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1938 - Age 6 The Brothers Three. yeah I'm asleep |
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1944 - Age 12 Freshman at East High School, Kansas City |
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1946 - Age 14 Bought my own bike, gave it a paint job |
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1947 - Age 15 Junior Year, took ROTC to get out of gym class |
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1948 - Age 16 Senior, graduated and got out of there! Went to work for Sears |
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1951 - Age 19 Got bored working at Sears and Joined the Air Force in October 1950 Promoted to Corporal after Tech School |
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October 1954 - Age 22 Honorable Discharge, back to work at Sears |
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March 1, 1956 - Age 24 Started work at International Business Machines A prize if you can guess me... |
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1968 - Age 35 and another new toy |
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1975 - Age 43 Gave up motorcycles and customized a 75 Chevy van |
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March 1981 - Age 49 after 25 years at IBM, my Quarter Century Club luncheon, Alameda Plaza Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri |
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March 1987 - Age 55 Retired from IBM and started a new life of just fun |
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July 1994 - Age 62 After 7 years of retirement in 1987 - from 31 years of labor(?) at IBM. |
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December 1996 - 64. My "New" IBM computer... Playing with 'Snappy' and my web pages |
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June 1997 - 65 and calling Social Security for some more money! |
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July 1998 - 66 After a fire in my St. Joseph house, moved to Parkville |
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December 2003 - 71 A new computer and updating my Web Pages |
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May 2005 - 73 And no more glasses after 60 years... and a new digital camera |
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September 2005 - Still 73 And I bought a second computer I didn't need... HP Media Center.... |
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October 2006 - 74 Another new car? 2006 Grand Caravan... Has more goodies than the 2005 cheapie van |
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March 2007 - 75 Another new computer? Yep, another HP Media Center... loaded and with Vista installed... now what next? |
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August 2009 - 77 Another new Camera Yep, Panisonic HD Hard Drive video camera... now Blu-ray HD DVDs! |
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August 2009 - 77 Oh yeah... for Blu-ray... Had to install a new Blu-ray DVD burner drive... and Video Card... And Blu-ray Video Editor program... |
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February 24, 2010 - 78 Got my new Canon Rebel EOS SXi finally... More new pics... And I like this one! |
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October , 2010 - 78 Decided the Payments were too High on the Caravan Gave it back to Chrysler and bought this 2002 Blazer |
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October 08, 2010 - 78 Another New HP Computer and Loaded! Quad Core Intel Processor ~ 16GB RAM ~ 1 TB Hard Drive ~ Blu-ray Burner ~ 21 & 1/2 Inch HD Monitor |
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October 08, 2010 - 78 The Latest Computer Line-up |
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2011 - 79 The Canon XSi was doing everything I wanted to do quite nicely But then I saw reviews of this New Canon EOS 7D DSLR and I had to have it |
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So May 31, 2011, I ordered the Canon EOS 7D A week later, here we are trying it out Takes great Photos and great Videos and I love it! |
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Now on September 8, 2011, I updated this page And is the Canon EOS 7D my last Camera? Oh Oh.. Got my sights on this one, stay tuned to see when I get it! New 5 Star Rated Panasonic AG-HMC40 |
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October 25, 2011, New TV and DVD Player arrive Left to take to Sanctuary Meetings to show my Videos And here to use as a Second Monitor for my Computer |
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October 27, 2011, New Camera Arrives and I Love It! Made the First Video that night at Pumpkin Carving Night in the Nature Sanctuary And the next one the following Saturday, Ghost Story Night |
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November 5, 2011, New Laptop Computer Never Cared Much for Laptops but I got this one to Play With in the Living Room And I never thought much of Dell, but this one seems to do OK |
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January 11, 2012, Happy 80th Birthday! And now what's next? |
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