Thanks for stopping by my web page. My name is Ron, and I am 70 years old.
I live in Oswego Illinois** with my Sweetheart, Marlene and our 3 cats Sam, Katie & Tabby. I retired 2/1/96 after 40 years with
Northern Illinois Gas Company (Now NICOR Gas), the last 28 years as a computer programmer.
I have 3 wonderful children, Deborah, Linda and Bill and 4 grandchildren.
I have been an Amateur Radio Operator (HAM) since 1958 and my call letters are K9WFY.
I have been into Personal Computers since 1976 when I built my 1st computer
(a SouthWest Technical Products 6800) from a kit. It only had 2,048 bytes
of memory whereas my current computer (an AMD Dual Core Athlon 64 4.2 GHz) has 2,147,483,648
bytes (2 Gig) of memory. It is my 14th computer since 1976. I currently spend most
of my free time Geocaching, working on my web page, playing around with Linux, surfing the web and working in my woodworking shop.
My other interests include bicycle riding with my best year being about 3800
miles and my best day was 127 miles. I also am into Radio Controlled boats
and currently have 5 boats. My favorite boat is a 46 inch deep V powered by a 30CC
Weedeater gasoline engine. I have recently gotten back into woodworking and have been making all sorts
of things for Marlene' crafts. My favorite reading is books by Dean Koontz, Robin
Cook, John Grisham, Isaac Asimov and Stephen King.
On June 30, 1999, We bought a 4 year old home and Marlene and I moved from Aurora to Oswego, Illinois. This has really been keeping me busy getting everything set up the way I want it, but at least now Marlene and I almost have enough room for all our hobbies.
I have recently discovered a new hobby GeoCaching. What you do is use a GPS and go out and search for hidden caches. There are over 710,000 hidden in the world. Using the latitude and longitude, which are posted on the internet, you go out searching and your GPS will usually get you within 10 foot. The caches usually are an ammo box or Rubbermaid container hidden in a forest preserve, containing a bunch of small trinkets. You are supposed to take one and leave one of your own. My geocaching name is GeoRon. Below are my geocaching statistics.
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