I'm into all kinds of different hobbies, some of which are American Muscle Cars, Music, guitar and aviation. I hope one day to do a frame off restoration of either a '68-'69 Chevy Camaro or a '70 1/2 Chevelle SS 454. As far as music goes, I like just about anything EXCEPT RAP. I predominantly listen to hard rock, classic rock & blues. I've played the guitar for going on 3 years now. In fact the background music from the Home page is a recording I made. Currently I play a Fender American Fat Strat Texas Special through a Marshal VS100 100 watt valvestate combo amplifier.
I was bit by the aviation bug while I was in the military. I served in the Army for 6 years as an aviation electronics ( or avionics for short) technician for army aircraft. Basically, that means I worked on all the electronic and electrivcal systems such as communications, navigation systems, flight control systems, radar woarning and electronic countermeasure sytems. I dealt with all the lighting, wiring, instrumentation and power generation / distribution systems from trouble shooting the "black boxes" to repairing antenas or anything else that may go wrong with these systems.
While in the military, I went to Basic training at Fort Jackson in July, 1995, and did my Advance Individual training (AIT = job traiining) at Fort Gordon, near Augusta, Ga. From there, my first duty station was Fort Drum, in upstate New York, about 30 miles from the Canadian border... that was COLD ! I was there from March of 1996 through May 1998. then I was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany until August of 2000. I LOVED it in Germany, and I would relish the chance to go again sometime. I met a lot of interesting people there, and learned Quite a bit about the german culture, to include a great deal of the language. In August 2000, my unit moved to Gieblestadt, Germany which is near Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg was a very pretty city, but Gieb was a hole in the hall hick town. I liked Wiesbaden MUCH better, but I still enjoyed my time there until I got out of the active duty Army in July 2001 to pursue my education. Though I'm not in the active military any longer, I chose to join the Pennsylvania National Guard to help offset the tuition costs of school, and it works out rather well !
Well, that's a little bit about me, and I'm sure I'll add more to this as time and memory permit ! Thanks for stopping by !