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James

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About Me

I am a hard working Chicago born guy. I work full time at the railroad as a manager, in train operations. I have been with the RR for 15 years, and will happily "die" there. My goal is to retire and travel around. I would love to move to Canada (favorite place), but I love my home town too much. I might have to settle for a cabin on a mountain side! I have lived in other places; Spokane WA, Couer D'Alene ID, Phoenix AZ & Edison, NJ. There is no place like home, and I will never call any place home other than Chicago. I also own a model train store, and hope that my son James Charles keeps up, and takes over someday. He also follows in Dad's steps, and loves trains, and going to Canada! We travel in Amtrak everwhere, and I have riden 95% of the system racking up over 108,000 miles to date.

My Interests

TRAINS, CHICAGO BEARS, BOWLING and drinking beer! I will always love darts & billards for the inside sports. Outside, I love the cold weather and anything related to snow! I enjoy watching the WNBA games during the football off-season.

I'd like to meet:

Becky Hammon!

Music:

My all time favorite band was, and still is OINGO BOINGO. I like Linkin Park, Disturbed, Metallica, and most rock.

Movies:

My favorite movie(s) are The Pink Panther series starring Peter Sellers. There is nothing funnier! Coming in close behind is Airplane!, Police Squad(s), and The Jerk. Can't forget the Blues Brothers & Animal House!

Television:

Love the SCIFI channel & Comedy Central. Favorite shows; Stargate Atlantis, SG-1, and of course South Park. Network shows CSI NY & Miami have become favorites, and I do like "24". I don't have much time for TV, but I make sure and record these. Longest running favorite, David Letterman! To this day, he still cracks me up, sometimes into tears!

Books:

Who has time to read books anymore?

My Blog

Happiness>Football season one step closer!

They just released the NFL Kickoff Weekend schedule! It makes me happy to know that Bears Football is now 22 weeks away! WOW, the Bears open the season in a rematch with the Indianapolis Colts on Sund...
Posted by James on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:42:00 PST

Working nights

I am working the night shift, 5:30p to 5:30a thru Febrauary. It has it's plusses and minusses, but I have gotten used to it. There are 4 of us in the work cycle, working 3 days on, 3 off, then we swit...
Posted by James on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:48:00 PST