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I am 64 years old (born April 2, 1961), single and have never been married. I have lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado for the past 34 years (since 1990). I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I received both my BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico.

One of the biggest things in my life is my becoming a Christian in the fall of 1995 (29 years ago). A full description of how I became a Christian can be found here.

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I am 64 years old (born April 2, 1961), single and have never been married. I have lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado for the past 34 years (since November 1990). I was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico where I received both my BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico.

One of the biggest things in my life is my becoming a Christian in the fall of 1995 (29 years ago). A full description of how I became a Christian can be found here.

Some of the things that I really enjoy doing and that occupy my time are:

Ballroom Dancing

I've been dancing 37 years (since 1988). I started out with Scandinavian dancing and then got into ballroom dancing.

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For the past 21 years I've taught beginning

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For 3 years I taught beginning

ballroom dancing once a month to those interested from my singles group

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at church.

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at church and most recently have been helping out an instructor as she is teaching beginning ballroom dance lessons.

Some of the ballroom dances I do as well as teach are:

- Fox Trot
- Waltz
- Rumba
- Cha-Cha
- East coast swing
- West coast swing
- Tango

Photography

Although I've been interested in photography for many years, it wasn't until 1990 that I got into photography in a big way when my sister asked me to photograph her wedding and I used that as the excuse I needed to buy a new camera (Nikon 8008). I took a lot of pictures with that camera. Then in 2003 I purchase my first digital camera (Nikon D100) and have not used film since. So I've taken a LOT of pictures since 1990. Some of my favorite subjects are:

Lightning	Fireworks	Sunsets	Underwater
Beach	Aspen Trees	Hot air Balloons	Weddings
Auroras (Northern Lights)2001/03/30 2001/11/05	1998 Israel / Greece	2000 Israel	2002 South Africa/Mozambique church mission trip

Snow skiing

I started skiing at age 5. Growing up in New Mexico I learned to ski at Sandia Peak which is just outside of Albuquerque. I cut my teeth at Taos which is were I learned to ski the double black diamonds . At age 15 I joined the National Ski Patrol at Sandia Peak and was on the patrol for 15 years (until I moved to Colorado Springs). While skiing at Arapaho Basin in 1991 I fell and blew my ACL out in my left knee. That has somewhat limited my skiing since then to the blue runs .

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But after 33 years of skiing I was ready for something that as a little

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But after 33 years of skiing I was ready for something that was a little

easier on my knees.

Scuba diving

I started scuba diving back in 1989 when there was a family reunion in Bonaire. Since then I've been back to Bonaire once and have been

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diving 7 times in the Bahamas, the most recent being July 2006.

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diving 9 times in the Bahamas, the most recent being November 2008.

Eventually I hope to have some pictures here (though that may be a long time since my slide scanner has stopped working so I've no way to digitize my photos).

Reading

I really enjoy reading. I prefer mysteries, though I read a lot of other types of books too. Some of my favorite authors and books are shown below.

Bible God	Tom Clancy The Hunt for the Red October	Lilian Jackson Braun The 'cat' books	Diane Mott Davidson The 'cook' books
Emily Brightwell Mrs. Jeffries books	Dorothy Gilman Mrs. Pollifax books	Frank Peretti This Present Darkness	Tim LaHaye/Jerry Jenkins The Left Behind series
Dale Brown Flight of the Old Dog	Robert Ludlum	Sue Grafton The alphabet books	Dick Francis The 'horse' books

Bike riding

I bought my first bike about 36 years ago. It was a street bike and in 1989 I participated in the "Tour de Taos" which was a bike ride to raise money for MS. The ride was from Albuquerque, NM to Taos, NM (2 days). When I moved to Colorado Springs I purchased a mountain bike. There are many trails on which to ride, though I don't ride nearly enough.

Sailing

I started sailing 40 years ago in 1985 when I went on a bare boat trip in the Florida Keys. Since then I've sailed 3 times in the British Virgin Islands and once in the Grenadines. Sadly, I've not been sailing in about 15 years (scuba diving took sailings place).

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