This is my family...

This is my lovely wife Liz and my two darling children Alexis and John. Liz is the only woman that could put up with me for the last 22 years and still be sane. She is a clinical audiologist and also does industrial audiological consulting on the side. Alexis has aspirations to be a marine biologist and a pro bowler. Her endeavor is considerably close with scores of 844 for a series and with perserverence she will make it. John is the jock of the family. He plays almost any sport imagineable. He is majoring in communications in U of DE and wants to be a sportscaster on tv.

My Real Life Friends Online...

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Candy was one of my dearest friends on line and IRL. Her kids Diana and Joe, both of which she was so proud, are pictured to the right. She lost her battle with the ugliness of cancer after a long and valiant fight. She left us on Feb 24, 2002. We'll always love you darlin'. You'll be in our hearts forever....
The left picture shows me with Candy's sister Jackie, as wild and playful as they come and always a smile for a friend. On the right, Jackie wants to be a blonde and tries on Candy's wig as Joe does his Jimmy Hendrix immitation.... Theyre fun!!
This is Chibiusa or Katy on the left. she visited us in Delaware a number of times. Thats her mom, Marlene way to the right. Marlene gives some of the best hugs! You can find either Marlene or Chibi (thats Katie to her IRL friends) in any of a dozen pseudonyms in or around #innercircle.
To the left are Fred29 and Gina, two more denizens of IRC, and great friends. Their Teenson Eric stops into IRC from time to time also. I visited them numerous times in their lovely Conneticut home while working there. Speaking of great hugs!!
Cathie, aka Koonsie makes her pilgrimages from upstate PA to share smiles with Candy in Jersey and me in Delaware. On one of my Westcoasters i happened through Bakersfield and surprised Carol in the kitchen. It was a quick visit but I still got my hug.
John and Michelle, or Shell for short, came to Delaware to visit Candy through Thanksgiving week '96. How fitting. I am ever so thankful to have made such great friends of them and wish they were a bit closer than Colorado.
And who might this gentleman be? John, or JM as we know him is a resident of our left coast contingent, and stopped by the hotel the first year I visited. The next year he got fancy and invited me for a BBQ. MY can he cook a steak!
Kari came to visit a couple times with her family, and this last time brought her lifelong friend "Lulu" along. I took a drive to Myrtle beach South Carolina with them and had a blast. Another friend Fred (lazy8) and his wife stopped in to visit while we were there tho we somehow failed to get pictures... Geez what was I thinking??
This is the lovely Nicole, or as we know her, Bluemazzy. She dropped in on the way from New England to her Lonestar home and shared her precious smile and charm with us.
On one of my outings i happened to stop in to a southern Masachusetts town and met Deb. she is the nothing but friendly and sweet, albeit packaged quite small. She's everything one would want for a friend...and less!
On any given day one might find Chris camped out at my coffeepot or helping me in the garage. Quite a friendly guy but.. what an attitude! Snuffy loves him anyway as you can see.
Every time I visit the San Francisco Bay area i just have to get to Berkeley and visit my friends Shay, aka Wanderer and Kish, otherwise known as Eyes. They always extend their hospitality and Kish's youngin Minzy loves to hear about trains.
These are truly my babies. Ignatz, or Ig for short, is a purebred Burmese. Age has added a couple of grey hairs to his lovely sable brown coat. Snuffy is a Blue Korat, one of the breed of wild cats from the blue slate hills of Thailand. He is as loving as he is loveable. Samantha was the baby of the bunch and was a domestic tiger shorthair. She may not have been a purebreed but we loved her just the same. She came to us from our patio one cold november day as a stray and left us quite suddenly from illness after 4 years of love and company.
Check back from time to time......as we meet more friends......