Welcome to Ed's Home Page



Last updated on 07 JAN 07


Welcome to my website. It's gradually being fine-tuned, the operative word being "gradually".


ABOUT ME

There isn't a whole awful lot to say about me. I was born a Coast Guard brat in Coos Bay, Oregon and traveled around the country on a rather frequent basis; during my third grade year alone, I attended four different elementary schools in three cities and two states.

In high school, I displayed the usual assortment of diverse interests:
Following high school I did a hitch in the Coast Guard, then a bit of college. After that, I simply traveled for a few years before starting a family.

These days, I work full-time and try to fend off my teenage daughter's would-be suitors. I still play role-playing games, do some wargaming when I have the chance, and have a membership in the Society for Creative Anachronism. I also study Emergency Management in my spare time.

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

Following my discovery of them during my Freshman year of high school, role-playing games quickly became my all-time favorite hobby. Please click here to go to my RPG page.

RANDOM SCRIBBLINGS

I like to write, although my scribblings tend to be mere fragments rather than complete stories. However, I have recently become "encouraged" to post my various writings on my website. So, as they are completed, I will upload them here. Please note that they are all in PDF format, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.

There is currently one story uploaded: I have also written several other, longer stories that I am trying to publish into a series of books. Since I am trying to publish them, I have not uploaded them onto the website (although I may do that at a later time). The titles so far are:


Official NaNoWriMo 2007 Participant

I also take part in the annual National Novel Writer's Month competition, which runs from 01 NOV to 30 NOV. The goal is 50,000 words in 30 days.

MY MUSIC COLLECTION

I'm not really into music; my "collection" is really just an eclectic mix of cassettes, CDs, MP3s, and even a handful of old 45 rpm records that I have acquired over the past 15+ years and stored in a large plastic box. Much of my collection is Classical or Jazz, but if you rummage around long enough you can find almost anything from Muskrat Love to Pinball Wizard to Hell's Bells. I do have a few favorites that I try to collect when I can afford to do so, however, including Meatloaf (Bat out of Hell and Bat out of Hell II), Queen (Classic Queen, Queen's Greatest Hits, A Kind of Magic, and All That Jazz), and Manowar (Kings of Metal and Hail to England).

MY LIBRARY

To say that I have diverse reading interests would be to say that a tiger is just a big cat or a Corvette Stingray is a car; it is EXTREME understatement, as revealed by the fact that my bookshelves appear to have everything from Planet X (a Star Trek/Marvel Comics crossover) by Michael Jan Friedman to The International Cheese Recipe Book by Evor Parry to Ether-Technology: A Rational Approach to Gravity Control by Rho Sigma.

Among my favorites books:
FAVORITE MOVIES
FAVORITE TELEVISION SHOWS

THE NORTHWIND

The USCGC Northwind (WAGB-282) was my first ocean-going ship in the Coast Guard, under Captain William Caster. I turned 18 while on board, just a few days too late to vote in the '84 Presidential Elections. I made some good friends, a handful of which I still keep in touch with after all these years.

For decades, the "Red Lady" found herself dealing with everything from Operation High Jump (Admiral Byrd's exploration of Antarctica) to a stolen totempole to Caribbean drug patrol to transporting musk oxen. She eventually decommissioned and later dismantled at a shipbreakers in Texas.


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