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Art	I have always dabbled in drawing and painting. I had art all through grade school and took it in high school except for my senior year.   They didn't have a class `that' advanced for me to take (I took all the classes they offered and in my junior year was the only one at my level and most always had an `A') so, I ended up taking 1st year drafting.   I didn't do too badly in drafting as I finished up with a B or an A (I don't remember which). I have done some charcoal, pencil, colored pencil, water color and a few oils, but I haven't done any in years. This is my first oil painting on a 6x9 inch piece of canvas.   I haven't come up with a title for it yet, but if pressed, I'll think of something! The picture of "Dalph's Den" on the home page is in oil, on a 9x12 inch canvas.   It was my 2nd oil painting.   There is about 8 years seperating my first two oils.
Photography	Another dabble was in photography. I've attended some night classes, read books, was taught how to develop negatives and how to print pictures when I was in the service by Harry Hodges.   Thanks Harry, where ever you are.   I even had all the equipment to set up my own dark room in 1979.   It was never set up though as my second marriage ruined any plans of doing that! I've taken pictures all across the U.S., from Viet Nam to Germany and haven't been published once!   What do ya' mean ya' hav' to submit em' before you can get em' published?!  ... (Pen and ink, approx., 5x8) I don't take as many pictures as I used to and still have rolls of film from several years back that need to be developed!   Maybe once or twice a year I'll get out my ol' 35mm Cannon and snap a few. I rarely get out my old trusty 34mm SLR Cannon.   I have switched to digital photography.   There are no rolls of film to buy or develop just be sure to have enough disk space!
Boob Tube!	I think that in some schools, today, they teach classes on watching TV! Whatever... I enjoy watching re-runs of Star Trek and from the new series, Voyager, the X-Files (Skulley is a fox!), JAG (I like the action) and watch a few other programs on the "tube".
Reading	Something that kids arn't supposed to be doing much of these days!   There ARE exceptions and I do hope that those exceptions grow in numbers. Some of my favorite authors are: Robert A Heinlein (who I grew up reading, enjoy re-reading and am happy that they are starting to make movies out of his stories) RIP Ann McCaffrey and her Pern series as well as her other books Piers Anthony Allen Dean Foster, esp. the Flinx series Gordon R. Dickson and others...
Pin Up Girls	My Grandfather had his garage almost totally covered with pin up girls, not fold outs, but drawings like Vargus did.   When I was a young child I would get caught by my Grandmother, in the garage, looking at all the pictures.   She'd give me a whippin', would scold me and tell me NEVER to go in there again.   Even as a child I was obsessive and compulsive and would continue to get whippings from her.   She finally made my Grandfather put a lock on the door to keep me out and went so far as making him take the car out of the garage, and closing the door before she would let me get close to the car.   I still had a tendency to `oogle' the pictures when he just pulled the car out.   That is why he had to close the door!   I collect them now on the computer and have a screen saver that cycles through them.   I still miss that garage!!!