My Interests ©

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I have to know why everything works or why it doesn't. Since I was a kid I had to take things apart. And I wasn't satisfied until I put it back together. And made it work. Ive built my own: Clocks, Lasers, Televisions ( I built my first 27 inch color console, handwired TV when I was 22 from Heathkit). I’ve built radios, telescopes, microscopes, a house, computers, dentures, binoculars, amplifiers. I've made the following over many years: Stained glass windows, Faceted gemstones, cast Gold jewelry, made necklaces, built kaleidoscopes, I am recording a CD at the City of Lights Studio. My producer, Keith Gaudette also works with Bonnie Rait and the Doobie Bros. I was certified by the I.S.S.A as a personal fitness trainer in 1996. I received the presidential sports award for marksmanship, I've replaced transmissions, clutches, and entire engines in cars. I've tanned hides, processed my own film and prints, received an Advanced Class Amateur Radio license (KN6CF), built transmitters and receivers, made a cap and ball gun. I've built from scratch several ancient tools to understand the ancients. (I have studied a lot of Ancient Egyptian History, an incredible era). I Paint, draw and sculpture. I've made music boxes from scratch and imported the movements from Switzerland. I have dozens of technical inventions that, I believe, can help this world if I can get them into the right market, I have sold a few of them. I’ve learned to repair almost every appliance: washers, dryers, refrigerators, stoves, microwaves, toasters, VCR’s, printers and computers, digital cameras.. I do my own sheetrock, flooring, painting, plumbing, carpentry, and electrical work. I am a class A upholsterer, I upholstered thousands of aircraft seats for major airlines (One of my first jobs). I have flown Cessna and piper Cherokee airplanes and a Bell Jet helicopter. I enjoy darts, pool and some board games. I created a dice game in the 80’s that caught on all over North Lake Tahoe. It is called "Farkle". I’ve built miniatures, I collect Space stamps, coins, Golden age comics and antiques. I have built and flown radio controlled planes and gliders, kites, parasleds, and even tried hangliding back in the 60's. I've built furniture, published articles, Poetry, written 3 books (I have a library of hundreds of books, I do a lot of reading). I've designed tools, I was a journeyman machinist, I can weld, I studied Karate for 2 years. I usually represent myself in court, if need be, because I have dealt with a lot of legal matters in the past, (having been a Notary Public for a few years). I wrote this entire webpage in HTML source code (170+ webpages, 887 files, 17.1 MB). I can sew my own clothes, built a satellite receiver system, talked with the astronauts while they were in orbit. I have the ability to upload and download telemetry from many satellites, I have built transmitters as small as a half inch square using surface mount technology, I studied Astronomy, Chemistry, physics, and engineering in college, Well I won't go any further than this, but if there is something for me to learn - I will. My experiences allowed me to retire from the Ca. State University system at the young age of 45, but I still keep busy. Well, there's a limited description of my interests. If you can use any of my services, please write. P.S. I set lofty goals for myself. One of my outlandish visions, below:

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