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He loves jets! She loves budgies! So our website is called


Last update: June 6, 2008
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Welcome to Our Home on the Web!

Page down and check us out; perhaps we share similar interests. Our text is "link friendly," connected to sites we especially enjoy. We hope to update at least monthly, with material a little livelier than this intro!

As for us, we live just northwest of Atlanta; our mutual interests include science fiction, science fiction conventions, watching dog obedience and agility competitions, the literate and entertaining Babylon 5 and Remember WENN, James Burke's Connections and The Day The Universe Changed, the classic BBC series The Good Life (aka Good Neighbors), Whose Line is It Anyway? (both versions), almost anything broadcast on the History Channel, Food Network's Good Eats and Unwrapped, HBO's magnificent From the Earth to the Moon, the original Star Trek, the best television game show ever, Jeopardy, and travel (when fiscally possible!). We are peripherally involved with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company, have become senselessly addicted to E-bay, Webkinz and collecting DVDs, and have yet to figure out where the time all goes...

Stats About Linda

Biographical Stuff

Of Italian descent, she was born in Cranston, RI; moved to Georgia in 1984, where she met her husband; she gratefully owes her involvement in SF fandom to Mary Bloemker. She loves old time radio, proudly sports a "World's No. 1 Lassie Fan" button, and is a budgie lover. Favorite foods include dark chocolate, chicken caccitore, chicken soup with rice, wine biscuits, and of course Del's Lemonade and coffee milk (the RI State Drink). Her favorite city is Boston and she remains forever loyal to the World Book Encyclopedia and Hood's Milk.

How She "Earns Her Bread"

Purchasing Agent at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Her Interests

Reading (selected science fiction/fantasy, mysteries, classic children's books, media nonfiction, Christmas customs and history); creating web pages; desktop publishing, counted cross stitch; collecting collie figures, classic children's books, and St. Nicholas magazines; doing "crosspatch" puzzles; reading and writing fan fiction (currently Remember WENN fanfic); attending SF cons; visiting historical museums (favorite periods of history are Victorian-Edwardian America and England, and homefront World War II)
          Some fanfiction links for those interested:
          • The X Files (The Gossamer Project)
          • Babylon 5
          • Fanfiction.net

Favorite Author(s)

Madeleine L'Engle, James Thurber, Gladys Taber

Favorite Musician/Musical Group

Rupert Holmes, George Winston, John Denver, Big Band music

Favorite Magazines

Best of British, Reminisce, Country Living (British edition), Yankee

Favorite Movies

See "My Favorite Movies"

Guys She Thinks are Really Cool!

Sam Neill, Jerry Doyle, Kevin O'Rourke, Anthony Stewart Head

Favorite TV Series (Present)

House and Monk

Favorite TV Series (Past)

Remember WENN, Alistair Cooke's America, Blake's 7, Brooklyn Bridge, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ellery Queen, Emergency Vets, Faraday and Company, Flambards, Get Smart, Lassie, My World and Welcome to It, NYPD Blue, Our World, Quantum Leap, Star Blazers, Star Trek (classic), The Waltons, Voyagers!
(Visit the one and only Ask the Manager fan site.)

Other TV She Likes

Doctor Who, Torchwood, The American Experience, HGTV's Room by Room, If Walls Could Talk, Design on a Dime, and Decorating Cents, Rick Steves' Europe, BBC America's Waking the Dead, and Animal Planet's Animal Precinct and Animal Cops

Stats About James

Biographical Stuff

An "Air Force brat," he was born in Tokyo, Japan and has also lived in Hawaii, exas, and Alabama, but eventually his family settled in Warner Robins, GA. His greatest dream, to become an aviator, was precluded by nearsightedness; his interest in aviation and the space program continues in his plastic modelling and model rocketry hobbies and he'd still like to have a pilot's license. He spent four years in the U.S. Navy as a naval aerographer (weather forecaster). A dog lover and recent budgie convert, he also enjoys cooking; his specialties include stir-fry chicken and beef.

How He "Earns His Bread"

IBM Server Systems technical support agent for CCI, Inc.

His Interests

Reading (science fiction, aviation/military/naval/space program fiction and nonfiction); plastic modeling (chiefly aircraft, spacecraft, and model rockets) also other military machines (a modeling link page); launching low-power model rockets; target shooting; attending SF cons; visiting aviation museums

Favorite Authors

Robert A. Heinlein, Tom Clancy, P. J. O'Rourke, David Weber (Honor Harrington books), Eric Flint, John Ringo, John Scalzi

Favorite Musician/Musical Group

The Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Steeleye Span

Favorite Magazines

Scale Aircraft Modelling, Sport Rocketry, Backwoods Home, Cook's Illustrated, Launch, Armchair General

Favorite Movies

Strategic Air Command, The Battle of Britain, A Christmas Story, The Blues Brothers, Star Wars trilogy, Evil Roy Slade

Ladies He Thinks are Really Cool!

Alyson Hannigan, Lea Thompson, Elisabeth Shue, Claudia Christian

Favorite TV Series (Present)

Dogfights, Mythbusters, House

Favorite TV Series (Past)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 12 O'Clock High, George of the Jungle, Remember WENN, NYPD Blue, Our World, Quark, Space: 1999, Space: Above and Beyond, Star Blazers, Star Trek (classic), U.F.O., Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Wings (Discovery Channel series), Junkyard Wars, Futurama, Conquest

Other TV He Likes

Mail Call, Animal Precinct, Animal Cops, Doctor Who, Torchwood

They Who Really Run the Household <g>

Willow

Willow, our Pomeranian mix, was rescued from the Cobb County Animal Shelter in May 1998. We know only her approximate age, so have designated March 17, 1998, as a good birthdate. Her heritage is fuzzy, like her mostly brown coat <g>, but from the tufts of hair over her eyes and around her mouth, plus her behavior, we're pretty sure she's part terrier, probably Cairn, maybe Jack Russell, Norfolk, or Border; she also has a mostly white left foreleg, three white toes, and a white blaze down her neck and chest. She fetches and eviscerates her stuffed monkey (the one named after the director of programming at AMC), and loves to chew and romp almost as much as she loves her daddy. Judging from her early performances when left alone, she was in training to sing Mimi in La Boheme; she still yowls if a door gets between you and her (cat ancestry? <g>). And, yes, she is named after Alyson Hannigan's character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Schuyler

Schuyler is our new budgerigar; we've never had a hen before. Just in case the pet shop was wrong, Linda picked a gender-neutral name; we can say she's named after Earl Hamner's hometown, or "Sky" King, or Schuyler Grant (Diana Barry in Anne of Green Gables and sequels), or even Schuyler "Skye" Aubrey. She is mostly white with black stripes, a white spot on the back of her head, and blue draped like a scarf around her shoulders and blue "knickers." She has gone through her first moult and still steadily resists any efforts to tame her; we have no idea what we're going to do when it's vacation time. However, she's comfortable enough here to launch scolding tirades from a high perch and bang around the St. Francis medal fastened to the bottom of the cage. And thank heaven, she likes the fruit pellets. If we could only get her to accept a finger perch... She doesn't have a web page yet, but you can see her baby photo.

 

Yeah, we're here. Spring has been an even "mixer" bag than winter.

Of course Spring is an annoying season anyway. Everything blooms, everyone sneezes (even the dog), we get attacked by drifts of yellow pine pollen for a couple of weeks, and then it gets hot and summer's just around the corner. Ugh. Is it any reason we get depressed? Right now the temp is in the 90s, has been like that for a few days, and is scheduled to stay that way until at least Tuesday. Phooey.

We did have another enjoyable trip to the North Georgia mountains in April. This year we went to see the Currahee Military Museum, celebrating the men who trained at Camp Toccoa (made famous by the book and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers). It is a small museum, but with some fascinating artifacts including a portion of the English stables that the men stayed in when they were stationed in England. This structure was dismantled and shipped to the United States, and memorabilia was found in the walls, including a letter from a soldier's mother.

At the end of May, our television abruptly died. Since it was either the picture tube or the power supply to the picture tube, it would have been too expensive to repair. Instead we went out and bought a flatscreen LCD HD unit, and then took up Dish Network's special offer of a DVR unit. The HD picture is indeed spectacular and we were getting good use out of the DVR until it up and died on us last week. We got a replacement on Tuesday that died the next day.

Needless to say Dish is not exactly on our "most loved utility company" right now. If they piss us off much more, Linda is threatening to call DirecTV.

We have been spending our economic stimulus checks on useful items, including a pair of bicycles in an effort to get more exercise. Right now we are just riding around the neighborhood for ten to fifteen minutes each night, doing about a mile and a half. Linda also received a performance bonus at work and promptly bought herself a new laptop after nearly tossing the old one the last time we were away. Even reloading the software didn't help its klunky speed.

We've also got a weekend getaway scheduled soon. As always, all will be blogged. (Dish Network will be flogged.)

 

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