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I am a member of the 'baby boomer' generation; born between 1945-65.
I successfully completed part of a Bachelor of Science before abandoning this. I have completed an Associate Diploma of Applied Science and am presently doing some tertiary IT studies.
I work as one of three geoscientific support staff to two teams of petroleum exploration geoscientists. This mainly involves the use of sophisticated geoscientific software to produce down hole well displays, cross sections and map displays of geophysical data.
Travelling
Countries and places I have already visited:
Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, China, United Kingdom, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Lichtenstein, Ireland, Canada, USA and Belgium.
Countries I would like to visit in the future are Chile, Peru, Czechoslovakia, Greece again and Ireland again.
Music
I enjoy a wide variety of music. My all-time favourintes are John Fogarty, CCR, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, the Bee Gees, Bob Marley and the Eagles.
I have managed to see live the Bee Gees and my biggest missed opportunity was seeing a Bruce Springsteen concert in Rotterdam in July 1981.
In the late 1980's I added Cajun music to my particular likes.
As a teenager I was taught the piano (for years), organ and guitar but nowadays I am quite hopeless for lack of practice. I will always have a particular affinity for music.
Sports interests
Swimming (competitive swimming and life saving) and target rifle shooting (mainly air rifle). To a lesser extent golf. My current interest for leisure is bush walking.
As a spectator, Aussie Rules Football (West Coast Eagles and Carlton), basketball (Perth Wildcats), top level tennis, women's golf, soccer, one day cricket and rugby union. A highlight was attending two World Swimming Championships held in Perth.
Computing
As I use a PC for the major part of my work day I try to avoid spending too much time on my home laptop and desktop. My laptop is a Toshiba P75, my old desktop an Acer P90 and my newest desktop is a P233MMX. Prior to these I had Atari's (800XL and 1040ST).
I have the usual peripherals (scanner, zip drive, CD writer, etc.)
Arts, crafts and hobbies
Over the years my interests have been many and varied. It has included quilting, oil painting, furniture restoration and DIY. Currently my interest in winter is tapestry.
Pets
Over the years have included Berry the Cocker Spaniel, George the budgerigar, Cass the german shepherd, Ingrid the (Burmese) cat, Cocky Boy the (Pink and Grey Galah) parrot, Jasmine and Toffee the (Burmese) cats.
Reading interests
I read a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction. My all-time favourite fiction writers include Tom Clancy and John Le Carre.
Gardening
I like to grow tropical plants (ferns and palms), exotics (eg dendrobium orchids), the unusual (eg Lithops (living stones)), the rarish (clivias, dombeyas), the supposedly difficult for this climate (coffee trees, japanese maples, magnolias), fruit trees (olive, lemon and orange) and african violets.