Merry Christmas everyone...

Hi all...

Going to be a slow day as everyone has their minds on Christmas and not necessarily on work. Not that I'm complaining! How fun it has been to read about everyone here. It sounds like we all made it into adulthood fairly well.

I'm living in Lake Village, Indiana - not far from Rensselaer, Mike, and yes, I know where Parr is. ;) We go to Scout camp and roller skating (yes, ROLLER SKATING) in Renssel-tucky.

Not so quick update...I'm married to Kevin Crum from Highland, IN class of '83...we've been married for 2 years now. I have two boys, Alex-12 (6th grader!), Owen-7 (2nd grader). They attend Lincoln Elementary in Roselawn (yes, the home of Naked City and the Miss Nude USA pageant. I'm so proud). Both boys do very well in school, are involved in Scouts and taekwondo (are now purple belts)...it's a fun life just to try and keep up! I now know what my parents went through living in the middle of no where and trying to keep up with my sister's and my extracurricular activities. Alex has begun playing guitar and Owen wants harmonica lessons of all things...we're scrambling to come up with that one. Our biggest hope for '05 is that we can get a piano and start them both on lessons. Music is a big part of our house, and I have them listening to everything. One day Stevie Wonder, the next day Fleetwood Mac...they can sing along with the Indigo Girls and Ani DiFranco (though I have to turn Ani off sometimes, she can be a little harsh for the kiddie ears), and turn around and jam out to Green Day.

Enough about my kids and more about ME! For the love of Pete...

I bounced around between Muncie and Chesterton for awhile and finally got a degree from Purdue Cal in computer information systems. I've held several systems administration positions over the years doing system design and tech support. I current run systems at a small bankruptcy/foreclosure firm in Merrillville. I'm a total geek, dealing with a lot of open source and unix based systems, though we keep windows on the desktop much to my dismay. I'm a security nut, an email nazi...I try as best I can to keep the peeps from unknowingly killing our network.

On the flip side I've also been a rock star - I used to sing with a local band and have started (badly) playing acoustic guitar. I hope to start a new project this year as I have a friend with a recording studio in New Buffalo. We'll see what happens.

We have 10 acres of property - have fun with our 3 dogs, 3 cats, 1 goat (yes GOAT) and don't forget the hermit crabs. We literally have our own petting zoo.

If anyone is travelling to or from Indy via I-65, you're driving right past me...feel free to stop by! There's always beer in the fridge and wine in the rack. And living in the boonies, I have a guest room, so if we finish off the beer and the wine, I have someplace for you to sleep it off.

Not sure what's going on Sunday, I'm going to do my best to make it by for awhile.

Happy Holidays everyone - R