I am now 40 years old, born in Yonkers, NY.  Was transferred to Chicago 9 years ago, and now live in the Chicago burbs.  I tend to work hard and play hard, but really appreciate time to "recharge".  I try to spend time with my kids, sharing their activities with them, going to movies or places of interest, or my favorite - just kidding around with them!  I enjoy the company of good people, and love entertaining at home.  We have several "annual" events at our place plus many other ad hoc get togethers including Barbecues, Dinner Parties, and Movie Nights.  Our regular entertaining includes:

When I am not at work, with my kids, or entertaining, I am usually one of three places; on ICQ (probably talking with most of you reading this page!), playing golf with my buddies (I am a real hacker), or just driving aimlessly with the top down and music blasting.  The cold weather in Chicagoland poses a real problem with two out of three of those, so you can guess that I prefer the warmer seasons!  More on my favorite passtimes in detail below.

Susan is also 40 years old, born in Brooklyn, NY.  She is a stay-at-home mom, and spends most of her time delivering the kids from activity to activity.  I really can't comprehend how she keeps it all straight, because just the weekend events alone test my ability to remember who has to be where when, and working out the logistics and timing of getting from one event to the next!

Her favorite hobbies are making porcelain dolls, playing Bunko with her friends, dressing her daughter, and enjoying her friends.

C.J. is almost 8� years old and was born just after we moved to Chicagoland.  He is in the 3rd grade and loves school.  He is a "young astronaut", which is a program that teaches kids about space and flight, and they build and fly model rockets.  He is also a cub scout and looks forward to the campouts in the warmer weather.

His favorite hobby is by far VIDEO GAMES!  He also likes using the computer, playing with legos, torturing his cats, and antagonizing his sister!   He also plays ice hockey, baseball, tennis, and swims.

Gigi is 6 years old, and also born in Chicagoland.  She is in kindergarten, and also loves school.  She is a Daisy scout, and takes ballet and jazz dance.  She used to be in a singing group called "the Sunshine Generation" which she enjoyed very much, but our local chapter closed unfortunately.

Her favorite hobbies are precision ice skating, playing dolls and house with her friends, torturing the cats, and antagonizing her brother!!!  She competes on a precision ice skating team and is looking forward to this season's competitions.  If you don't know what precision is, it is like the synchronized swimming of ice skating.

I work for a major international investment bank in the IT division, right now focussing primarily on Year 2000 issues.  My work takes me very frequently to London, and occasionally to New York.  Although I spend way too much of my life on planes and in airports these days, I look forward to going to Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Australia, Switzerland, and Frankfurt.

I used to be a very technical person at one point in my life, specializing in early distributed processing and options valuation and risk.  At some point I came to a fork in the road and had to choose between a "Management" path, and a "Technical Specialist" path.  I chose the "Management" one, and try not to look back with too many regrets, although I feel out of touch with "real" technology every so often.

ICQ Junkie    ICQ #  23512024

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