Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:19:00 EDT
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From: Tom Stone <TStone8359@AOL.COM>
Subject: List Census
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OK, I give.
Tom Stone
54 years old
Male
Married 29.5 years to Mary Ann. Three sons, one daughter. One son is
married, lives in Florida, drives a 2000 New Beetle. Another son will marry
in August, lives in Oregon, drives a '78 Westy, an '80 Vanagon and an '82
Vanagon. Third son just graduated from high school, drives an '86 Scirocco.
Daughter got her license a week ago Friday. Drove the '96 Jetta with manual
trans. Shocked the tester. Passed first try. Will get her own '91 Jetta
next month. Brought them up well, didn't I?
Technical Business Analyst in the Systems department for large mid-west based
insurance company, 34 years. US Navy before that (remember that thread?).
Live in Bloomington, IL (about 2 hrs. south of Chicago).
Born in Ohio, graduated from Ohio State, lived there til '84. Taught
computer programming at Ohio State and the local community college in the
evenings (FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL). Lived in Frederick, MD for 4 years (I miss
the Hershey and Carlisle car shows and the Manassas Bug Outs). Now serving a
life sentence here in "corporate".
Currently own:
'91 Vanagon Carat
'96 Jetta
'87 Vanagon partsmobile
'85 Westy
'91 Jetta
'71 Westy
'63 Sunroof bug
'57 Porsche 356A Coupe
Have owned:
'51, '55(2), '56, '57(3), '63, '65, '66, '67(3), '69, '70(2) Bugs
'68, '70 bug convertibles
'69, '70(2) Ghias
'68, '71, '72 Squarebacks
'60, '63, '66, '67 Split window busses
' 71(2), '77, '78(2) Bay window busses
'78, '79, '80, '82, '84 (2, 1 diesel) Rabbits
'87 Jetta
'83.5 Westy, '85 Vanagons
'62 356B Porsche Coupe
Had a bunch of kids in the back seat of a van 10-15 years ago coming back
from a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. One of the kids was bragging about
how many cars his dad had (6). My kid, God bless him, said, "That's nuthin',
my dad has 20!" It was pretty quiet after that.
Last American new car I bought was a '70 Pontiac Le Mans. Bought three
Datsuns after that (remember the last energy crisis?). They rusted away
quickly. Bought a '76 VW Van and never looked back.
Hobbies: I like to work on cars, read list e-mail, attend kids' sporting
events, do home repairs, and travel (Colorado in August, Mexico in November).
My last quarter of college, I had an open hour in my class schedule. I
wanted to take a photography class, but elected to do computer programming
instead (FORTRAN). It made all the difference.
Thanks for the chance to share.
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