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Charles

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Growing up, we tended to move around a bunch, living in California, North Carolina, and Florida before coming home to Missouri. So, I attended a lot of different schools. I graduated from North County High School in Desloge MO in 1981. I didn't really think of college at the time I graduated, so decided on the service.I served 4 years in the US Navy from 1981 and after doing such entertaining career choices like chipping paint off bulkheads, watching paint dry, etc etc, I eventually become an Electricians Mate. After getting off active duty, I then remained in the Navy Reserves till 1994, which helped pay for college, and I got to hang out with some great friends.I attended Mineral Area College in Leadington MO, where I received a Associate of Arts degree in 1987. Then went on to Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO) where I received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology (Electronics Option) minoring in physics in December of 1990.Currently working as a lab analyst/chemist on an Army Corp project near Lambert Airport in St. Louis MO.Also working at getting back into shape, let myself go for way too many years and am now suffering the consequences, lol, called working out, usually on a daily basis. Definitely makes a great difference in how I feel!!!
You Are A Fig Tree
You are very independent and strong minded.
A hard worker when you want to be, you play hard too.
You are honest and loyal. You hate contradiction or arguments.
You love life, and you live for your friends, children, and animals.
A great sense of humor, artistic talent, and intelligence are all gifts you possess. What's Your Celtic Horoscope?

My Interests

Road trips!!! Definitely love going on trips to places I have never been before, which is starting to get costlier, heh, only seem to do the trips every few years now. Love reading!!! Have an "extremely" large collection including scifi/fantasy, westerns, and history books. Photography, discovered the amazing things you can do with photos on the computer nowadays, have many old family photos I mess around with, I clean the old ones up by removing stains, cracks/creases, etc, lots of work, but rewarding when done.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone willing and able to hold a good conversation, after all, that is how my best friends became my best friends, shooting the breeze! I get a kick out of chatting with folks.

Music:

Wide range of music I enjoy, probably have a really wierd taste in music, heh, leave it at that.

Movies:

In keeping with the type books I read, I love the Lord of the Rings triology movies, the Star Wars movies, Indiana Jones movies. Pretty much if its action I like it. I also enjoyed the God Father movies. Ok, just saw 300, think it has to join this group!

Television:

Don't really sit down to just watch TV much anymore, tend to be messing around with the computer more than anything, .. gaming, trying to find old friends, etc.

Books:

Several favorite authors: David Weber, Anne McCaffrey, Steven Brust, Julie Czerneda, Lois McMaster Bujold, Elizabeth Moon, and David Eddings to name just a few. Yep, sci-fi and fantasy writers.

Heroes:

When I was a young man in the service, coming from a very poor background, we were sitting around talking in a little group of deck hands, when our Division Officer Ensign Nowak walked up and got into the conversation, not sure how, but the topic of college came up, and one of my buddies laughed and said college wasn't for guys like us. Ensign Nowak kinda got his dander up, and told us, there was no reason anyone of us couldn't attend and graduate college. This planted a seed that not too many years later had me leaving active duty and attending and graduating college. Hats off to you Mr. Nowak!!! Thanks for the inspiration!!!

My Blog

Who would have thought?

Been a while since my last blog.  A lot has happened since then, lets see if I can put it into words, lol.  Stand by for a long winded story!! Last winter a couple of friends of mine (Gary a...
Posted by Charles on Sat, 17 May 2008 12:06:00 PST

Random Thoughts

Been awhile since my last blog, so might get a few thoughts going on, bare with me lol. Anyways, currently trying to catch a cold, so am trying out this new otc medicine, Zicam. Theoretically thi...
Posted by Charles on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:26:00 PST

Long weekend ramblings

Decided I needed a few days off work, we have been swamped and I had no more desire to be there, lol, was seeing more of work than home!! Anyone who knows me, knows I am a homebody.  So, loving h...
Posted by Charles on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:03:00 PST

The bifocals

Ok, it has taken me a couple of days, but these bifocal glasses are actually kinda nifty, lol.  They are definitely what I needed.  Still gotta take a pic or 2 and post, was kinda worried, l...
Posted by Charles on Fri, 11 May 2007 07:27:00 PST

New glasses

So, I been noticing I haven't been seeing as well as I used to.  Now anyone that knows me, knows I procrastinate on buying new glasses until the ones I am wearing are falling off my face.  S...
Posted by Charles on Tue, 01 May 2007 03:14:00 PST

Dad

Well, its that time of year again, Dad passed away five years ago tomorrow.  Seems like yesterday sometimes.  I still find myself sometimes thinking I need to tell him something, and then th...
Posted by Charles on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:58:00 PST

The Deck

Well, a week ago the park I have my home in decided I had to add spindles to my deck.  So, not really knowing what "spindles" were I did a little research, lol.  No carpentry skills here let...
Posted by Charles on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:50:00 PST

More ramblings

Been a pretty good last couple of weeks, discovered folks actually do read blogs, lol.  Also, found several folks I went to school with, both high school and college.  Amazing how much the i...
Posted by Charles on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:42:00 PST

Ramblings

Well, getting sick and then taking forever to get over it really really sucks!!!  LOL, spent the biggest part of the last 2 weeks dealing with an upper respiratory problem, missed a bunch of work...
Posted by Charles on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:01:00 PST

Working out update

OMG, after all the stuffing my face over the weekend, with little to no watching what I was eating or much in the way of working out, I was surprised when I weighed in.  I had this lttle goal whe...
Posted by Charles on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 03:48:00 PST