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Cap Mandrake -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 3:39:47 PM)

Santa Maria! I've got ties older than half of these lads!

56

Southern Calif.

Physician

Married (2nd wife, 1st passed away [:(]..the sad face is for the second part after the comma, not the first part, although I sometimes wonder what I was thinking) 3 bio kids. Youngest is 20 and acts like a teen. The middle one works for a law firm in LA. The oldest is 27 and works for the Russian mob...I think. One 19 year old step-daughter with a serious attitude living at home. Two step-adopted kids (if there is such a thing) 7 and 10 who I have taken to fighting with for the Netflix controller. One great old lab mix and one frequently annoying but grateful mutt rescue dog with an incredibly small head. Used to have a rabbit but a bobcat killed it. Utterly worthless but oddly endearing ferret lives downstairs. Sometimes we have rats in the attic.

BS in biology, MD

Quote: Major T. J. "King" Kong: Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

Reading: 1776....very slowly



ilovestrategy -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 3:45:02 PM)

Age:45
Residence:San Diego
Family:wife, been married 21 years, adult daughter
Education:high school
Work:custodial supervisor
Favorite Quote:crazy is better than boring
Reading: I've read Lord of the Rings once a year since 1983, I'm a major Tolkien freak



Empire101 -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 3:54:41 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake



Quote: Major T. J. "King" Kong: Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.



Class!![:D][:D]



Canoerebel -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 4:01:54 PM)

I know what Cap Mandrake means about the old ties.  I am learning that the average age of the AE bunch is considerably less than I had expected.  Alot more 20s and 30s than I would have guessed.  I seem to be much more in the "mature" category than I had thought.

Interesting to see how many enjoy re-reading favorite books.  Also, quite a few dedicated readers of the bible.

A very diverse range of professions/jobs/retired.  There seem to be few if any teachers thus far.



Empire101 -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 4:05:39 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I know what Cap Mandrake means about the old ties.  I am learning that the average age of the AE bunch is considerably less than I had expected.  Alot more 20s and 30s than I would have guessed.  I seem to be much more in the "mature" category than I had thought.

Interesting to see how many enjoy re-reading favorite books.  Also, quite a few dedicated readers of the bible.

A very diverse range of professions/jobs/retired.  There seem to be few if any teachers thus far.


Yep...I feel really old and burnt out now [sm=sad-1361.gif]



mike scholl 1 -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 4:14:18 PM)



Job: Retired. Former Theatre Manager and IT tech.
Age: 63
Residence: Kansas City, Mo.
Family: Two Sisters, One Mother, Many Friends
Education: BS, MA, 50 years of reading...
Work: Not if I can help it..., I'm RETIRED.
Favorite Quote: "There are always three courses of action open to your enemy..., and of these he will inevitably chose the forth."
Reading: 1636: The Saxon Uprising. (I enjoy historical fantasy..., just not in my historical gaming.)




Miller -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 4:29:46 PM)


Age: 39
Residence: Ashington, England
Family: 13 year old money pit (Daughter)
Education: High School
Job: Bus driver
Favorite Quote: "The death of one man is a tragedy....the death of millions is a statistic"
Reading: Newspapers[:'(]




JocMeister -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 4:44:01 PM)

Job: Supervising Electrician
Age: 33
Residence: Stockholm, Sweden
Family: GF with first child on the way (yey)! [:)]
Education: University
Work: Small company
Favorite Quote: I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein
Reading: "Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions" - Samuel Eliot Morison

Amazed at the diversity of the people here! I thought I was one of the younger here. Now I feel really old instead! [:D]



SqzMyLemon -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 4:50:30 PM)

Job: Pipeline Construction GPS Data Manager
Age: 43
Residence: Edmonton, Alberta
Family: 13 years with my SO and recent addition of Baxter (Sheltie)
Education: Engineering Design and Drafting Program graduate N.A.I.T., Plugging away at a BA in History when I can afford the classes.
Work: Oil & Gas Survey and Pipeline Construction (was a Drafting Tech for 10 years)
Favorite Quote: "I'm expecting a package from (insert Country here) any day now"
Reading: "The Burma Campaign" by Frank McLynn, "Too big to Fail" by Andrew Sorkin and I'm always reading various reference material for my model building hobby.



RevRick -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 5:11:51 PM)

Good Grief...
There ARE a lot of young'uns here!! Warms the cockles of my heart... the old gaming and (in our case) the necessary study of history hasn't totally falling into disrepute...

Love it!!!



Sardaukar -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 5:18:10 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Historiker

How is it possible that so many of you are already retired while still being so young? Retirement age is 67 in Germany!


"Retarded" you mean... [:D][:D]



nashvillen -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 5:20:35 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

quote:

ORIGINAL: Historiker

How is it possible that so many of you are already retired while still being so young? Retirement age is 67 in Germany!


"Retarded" you mean... [:D][:D]



Firefighting is a young mans job. I had two knees with severe arthritis and found something else I could do to support my brothers. Hence the "retirement" and another job.



fcharton -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 5:22:08 PM)

Job: Computer programmer
Age: 47
Residence: Nemours, France
Family: A wife, a son (19), three daughters (18, 8, 4), and a cat
Education: Ecole Polytechnique, ENSAE (majored in maths and statistics)
Work: Small software house
Favorite Quote: Nothing, like something, happens anywhere
Currently reading: The code of the Woosters (Wodehouse), and The mythical man month (Brooks)



VSWG -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 5:24:19 PM)

Job: IT Administrator
Age: 31
Residence: Cologne, Germany
Family: Parents, sister
Education: spent several years studying modern German history, then switched to IT - you gotta eat...
Work: System Administrator, small IT company
Favorite Quote: It's just a flesh wound!
Reading: Just finished: Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card). Next up: Dreadnought (Robert K. Massie)



Sardaukar -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 5:31:02 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Santa Maria! I've got ties older than half of these lads!

56

Southern Calif.

Physician

Married (2nd wife, 1st passed away [:(]..the sad face is for the second part after the comma, not the first part, although I sometimes wonder what I was thinking) 3 bio kids. Youngest is 20 and acts like a teen. The middle one works for a law firm in LA. The oldest is 27 and works for the Russian mob...I think. One 19 year old step-daughter with a serious attitude living at home. Two step-adopted kids (if there is such a thing) 7 and 10 who I have taken to fighting with for the Netflix controller. One great old lab mix and one frequently annoying but grateful mutt rescue dog with an incredibly small head. Used to have a rabbit but a bobcat killed it. Utterly worthless but oddly endearing ferret lives downstairs. Sometimes we have rats in the attic.

BS in biology, MD

Quote: Major T. J. "King" Kong: Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

Reading: 1776....very slowly


[:D][:D]

MD...you are hopeless...

I was married to Maltese managing pharmacist and now seeing GREEK MD.

So I guess I should stop throwing stones. [:D]



Empire101 -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 5:34:00 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: RevRick

Good Grief...
There ARE a lot of young'uns here!! Warms the cockles of my heart... the old gaming and (in our case) the necessary study of history hasn't totally falling into disrepute...

Love it!!!



I second that!!



Historiker -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 5:42:34 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: VSWG

Job: IT Administrator
Age: 31
Residence: Cologne, Germany
Family: Parents, sister
Education: spent several years studying modern German history, then switched to IT - you gotta eat...
Work: System Administrator, small IT company
Favorite Quote: It's just a flesh wound!
Reading: Just finished: Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card). Next up: Dreadnought (Robert K. Massie)

I learned that lesson [;)]



Nikademus -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 5:53:35 PM)

Job: IT Support and Administration
Age: In Dog years.....I'm Dead
Residence: Seattle, WA
Family: one grumpy ex marine dad.
Education: College degree mixing SCIENCE!!!! and history
Work: Pharmaceutical Industry.....Wargame development
Favorite Quote: "With your taste in music, you might as well stand on a street corner banging two trash can lids together while screaming"
Reading: Six Frigates, Galipoli, Armageddon, and just finished OstFront.



Admiral DadMan -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 6:14:37 PM)

Job: Telefundrasing Manager
Age: 45
Residence: North Grosvenor Dale, CT
Family: 4 Kids and 1 Awesome Girlfriend
Education: AA Communications
Favorite Quote: "I AM being productive. My mere presence here is a testament to that. I'm like Moses parting the Red Sea- all I have to do is show up"
Reading: Shattered Sword (Again)




John 3rd -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 6:16:09 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: mike scholl 1



Job: Retired. Former Theatre Manager and IT tech.
Age: 63
Residence: Kansas City, Mo.
Family: Two Sisters, One Mother, Many Friends
Education: BS, MA, 50 years of reading...
Work: Not if I can help it..., I'm RETIRED.
Favorite Quote: "There are always three courses of action open to your enemy..., and of these he will inevitably chose the forth."
Reading: 1636: The Saxon Uprising. (I enjoy historical fantasy..., just not in my historical gaming.)





Did you work for Commonwealth Theatres (was based at Kansas City)? My Father worked for them for 31+ years.



dorjun driver -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 6:18:23 PM)

Job: Bum
Age: 57
Residence: Port Townsend, WA
Family: Divorced. Lots of nieces.
Education: Boston University, Harvard, Pacific University; mathematics & computer sciences
Work: Harbormaster, Wooden Boat Festival, 2012
Favorite Quote: Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
Reading: Asada, Sadao, “From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: the Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States”; Figes, Orlando, “The Crimean War”



John 3rd -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 6:28:54 PM)

Job: Subway Manager and THANK GOODNESS returning to College Education in the Fall
Age: 45
Residence: La Salle, CO
Family: 2nd Wife of nearly 10 years, two sons (8 and 6)
Education: MA Military History, BAs in History and Political Science
Favorite Quote: I will cheat and use TWO:
“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.” Robert E. Lee upon seeing a Federal assault repulsed at Fredericksburg, Dec. 1862
AND
“I would charge Hell on earth for that old man.” A member of the Texas Brigade at the Wilderness (May 1864) about Robert E. Lee

Reading: Peter Cozzen's Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign: Shenandoah 1942



Chickenboy -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 6:31:20 PM)

Job: Veterinarian (poultry specialist)
Age: 43
Residence: Just north of St. Paul, Minnesota (USA)
Family: married, two children (ages 5 & 8)
Education: BVSc (Veterinary Science), MPVM (Preventive Veterinary Medicine), DVM, MBA
Work: A rodent-themed large upper Midwest public university. Diagnostic pathology, teaching, research.
Favorite Quote: Don't Tread on Me
Reading: American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History. by Chris Kyle



sandman455 -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 6:57:12 PM)

Always hated these but if it gets me to 100 posts . . .

Job: CFO of a company I started 18 years ago. Prior to that US Navy 8 years - see sig box.

Age: 50

Residence: St Johns, Florida

Family: Wife, two daughers age 22 & 25, 2 horses, 5 cats, 2 turtles and my trusty basset hound.

Education: Formal education - BSBA Finance and Economics Univ of Denver, 1984; MBA Univ of N Florida, 1993. Informal - Heh, 18 years of running a business.

Work: Way too much, ready to retire. Can't even call the Navy work anymore, compared to what I do today. It was nothing but fun with flying as an added bonus. 2100 flight hours mostly in S-3A & S-3B, but some time in T-34C, T-2, TA-4, T-47, F/A-18B with another 300 hours or so in 152's and 172's.

Favorite Quote: Too many to list but my favorites are usually from Mark Twain, Will Rogers or Josey Wales

Reading: But of course, the manual.



Sardaukar -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 7:10:07 PM)

So...does it srike that bunch around is...kinda old... [:D]



wolfclan -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 7:28:20 PM)

Job: Retired
Age: 66
Residence: rural Ohio
Family: Wife, two children, four grandchildren
Work: Navy, automotive industry
Education: BS USNA, MBA Michigan
Favorite Quote: I want a lucky general, not a good one.
Reading: THE WORDY SHIPMATES, THE VIKINGS



Historiker -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 7:44:34 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: John 3rd

Job: Subway Manager and THANK GOODNESS returning to College Education in the Fall


are you already accepted in grad school? Where will you do your PHD? Or will you something different?



khyberbill -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 7:45:21 PM)

I was waiting for someone older than I.

Job: Owner of a 15 room Bed and Breakfast in CT (www.homesteadct.com)
Age: 64
Residence: New Milford, CT
Family: Two sons, first wife, now with second wife
Education: Naval Nuclear Power School, BS, Radiological Health, Manhattan College, NY
Work: For over 30 years lots of neat stuff with cleaning up nuclear reactors. My last overseas visit was to Fukushima in 2001! Now I just run an Inn.
Favorite Quote: What the hell is going on out there?
Reading: Stalky and Company, Rudyard Kipling



Nikademus -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 7:45:29 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

So...does it srike that bunch around is...kinda old... [:D]


speak for yourself!



dorjun driver -> RE: Meet the Forumites (4/11/2012 7:50:48 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

So...does it srike that bunch around is...kinda old... [:D]


I don't know about the rest of you folks, but I'm into my THIRD childhood! So yeah, I suppose it does.



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