Other stuff I do

You didn’t think I was just a woodworker, did you? I’m actually keep very busy as the dad of two active boys and the husband of a very loving - and patient - wife.

My ‘day job’ is as an emergency preparedness Public Information Officer for Pinellas County government. I have written a lot of the information that appears on our emergency management page. In fact, you can also see me in several videos on the site as well, such as Shuttering Your Home and Charley’s Aftermath.

www.pinellascounty.org/emergency

I am also studying to become a meteorologist. I figure that since Florida weather can be bad, it will only help me to get some training. The schooling is being offered by the USDA through their graduate distance learning program.

http://grad.usda.gov

Since I am a hopefully-soon-to-be-meteorologist, I am currently just at the rank of weather junkie. One of my favorite places to get weather information is at the Weather Underground, which was established by Dr. Jeff Masters of the University of Michigan. This is an awesome weather site with a very active meteorology community. I visit this site a few times a day - or more - if the weather warrants it. And, yes, I have a blog there as well.

http://www.wunderground.com

I do most of my work at home on a Macintosh computer. I started using them back in 1989 while at college, and I have been using them since. I find that Macs are easier to use and maintain than PC’s. In previous years, I wrote a regular column called Apple Cider for an online Macintosh magazine called About This Particular Macintosh (ATPM). You can view the archive of my articles online.

http://www.atpm.com/Back/cider.shtml

I attended college at the University of Maryland, College Park. Those were four of the best years of my life (the ones I can remember, of course). It was, and still is, an excellent university in spitting distance of Washington, DC.

http://www.umd.edu