Allow myself to introduce....myself

Obviously, you're going to know who I am if you're at my website, but in case you are a wanderer and just happened to want to know who created this AMAZING website, well, wonder no further.

So there I am, at my house in the Azores. THAT was my view from the front yard of my house out there. Now I get to see a vacant lot. Life isn't fair. Well, okay it is, as I DID get to live there for 15 months. Anyways, this picture makes me laugh, so I've got that going for me.

Living in Vegas rules. Guess what, I've been good about not going to the casinos! I figured I'll just wait until I have visitors come up who will make me go. Yeah, that's it!

I'm currently stationed at Nellis Air Force Base. I work right next to the flight line and the Thunderbirds, so every day for me is an air show. Pretty sweet, eh? Don't ask me what I do, please. I really don't know and if I did, I'm sure I couldn't tell you about it.

 

Some vital information you might just have to know about me in case you ever want to commit identity theft on me and open lots of credit cards in my name. Why shouldn't you be any different? Okay, not fair, but it's an ongoing story that will be told in this section in the very near future.

Where I grew up: Los Angeles, California!
My college: University of California, Los Angeles (Bruins, baby!)
My current car: a 2003 Volkswagen Jetta GLS 1.8Turbo named Catherine! Oh, taste the sweetness...
Cars I have owned: 1980 Blue Honda Civic hatchback, 1988 Silver Honda Civic hatchback (sold to me by my Uncle Richard), a new 1999 Green Honda Civic coupe (Emmy....sniff, sniff), and a 1990 Red Renault Clio 1.1 (Fifi - au revoir, bizatch!)
Favorite TV Shows: Survivor, X-Files (still can't believe it's over), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, Sopranos, 24 (The first season was incredible), Smallville, Angel
European countries I've been to: Italy, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, & England
Favorite City: London, still
Favorite Fast Food: Wendy's Classic Single and Fries
Favorite Pastimes: Bowling (Woo hoo!), Enjoying a movie in a sweet stadium seated THX/DTS certified theater, Perusing a Best Buy, and enjoying good times with friends and/or family over a nice drink (or 2 or 3 or....more), and playing the violin
Check Boxes that still need checking: Go to Hawaii; Visit Monte Carlo Casino (the one in Monaco) in a tux and pretend I'm James Bond; Become fluent in German; Buy a house and create ultimate home theater; Go Hot-Air Ballooning; Go Bungee-Jumping; Get Masters Degree; Playing Violin in an actual orchestra (I'm not delusional - a community orchestra or something will suffice); Get out of debt; more TBD
Favorite Gambling Pastime: Blackjack!! Sorry Craps - you've burned me too much lately.

Miscellaneous Me

That's all the sharing I feel like doing for now. Some of these links below lead to a long winded talk about the event, including pictures. Obviously this will take time, but I think it will be fun to write and enjoyable to read.

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My Violin

I decided to pick up the violin while here in the Azores and discovering that lessons were cheap and I didn't have all that much to do otherwise except drink. Hey hey, I don't drink all that much. But when you've had some of the vinho verde here, hell, you'll be singing a new tune also. ANYWAYS.....it has always been a goal of mine to get the nerve to learn to play the violin. I didn't really think that I'd ever do it, but lo and behold, I did, thanks to my coworker SSgt Jim Dorrian who also decided to take lessons. And I actually think I have a knack for it - I'm no Mozart (aren't you glad I told you that?), but I am coming along nicely. I decided to put in some pictures of my violin (Libby) and the room in my Salga house where I tend to practice. A cool thing that just happened on the night of 28 Sep was that my violin teacher, Elena, was in a chamber music concert at the Praia Catholic church, this very old and European-looking cathedral. There was a pipe organ, a cello, a violin (played by Elena), and a soprano vocalist. It was amazing inspiration (and frustrating at the same time - how is it that my violin just doesn't sound like that?) and was a great experience. It was very similar to when Jason, Wendy and I were in Florence and went to a concert in a church there. I got to hear Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor played on a huge pipe organ. That was a religious experience - freaking incredible! I know my friend Roni's mom, Toni, would have died had she been able to hear that.