No need to bother anyone with the childhood and upbringing stuff, my formative
years were much later......
After an early retirement from my career as a jockey(two time riding champ at
Finger Lakes), I settled in the woods of Eastern Connecticut. Rugged country,
where for over two centuries, men have worked the land, cutting trees and
building several thousand miles of rock walls. Feeling a need to contribute, I
enlisted during the Drug Wars, serving mainly in North Providence and Lower
Manhatten. Was forced to discharge from same after a nasty liver injury. I had
built up considerable savings, lost during the first Bush administration. I
headed south to Pennsylvania for the trout fishing, and for several years,
raised alpacas. Bailed out when the advertising blitz started, bringing the
Riff-Raff into the business. This windfall lasted until the second Bush
administration. At present, I am well cared for by my loving wife Lisa and
daughter Jeanine and thus have essentially no duties whatsoever. I have
participated in ROFF since 1986, but started in earnest in 1994, when I got a
computer. I feebly attempt to host the now-annual Penn's Creek Clave. This
event has evolved, in a Darwinian fashion, to a self-managing event. The only
work I am required to do at all consists of spending the entire month of April
watering down the lower camping meadow. My two proudest ROFFian items are the
fact that I actually met, and dined al fresco with, RDean(btw, anyone who
thinks that RDL fellow is him is whacked, and not a careful reader), and I own
a bottle of Opie's RedAss Hot Sauce. As always, I look forward to one and all
coming down, up or whichever direction to Penn's in May(May 16-23, 2004). Hope
this helpsvbseg.
Tom