SHIRLEY	BILL
Shirley finally retired - for how long? ....we shall see. Shirley has been a radar technician, an electronic QC technician, a teacher and a nurse. For a while, she avidly pursued a doctorate in Adult Education (mostly, I think, so that the MDs she worked with would have to call he "Doctor.") She has worked in a variety of medical organizations, was director of nursing in three hospitals, taught at NIU, did testing for the State of Oregon and lastly doing medical case work for Standard Insurance. She has worked with a variety of youth groups and has always involved teaching wherever she worked.	Bill is a retired computer nerd. He started out as a radar technician and ran into his first computer (an analog type) back in 1955. He worked at Bell Labs for 29 years and then helped Standard Insurance go on line. He has also spent several years teaching electronics.  Mostly, he concentrates on volunteer work centered on Boy Scouts but has also included over the years: an English tutor with the Urban League, a canoe instructor and bloodmobile worker with the Red Cross and a camp waterfront coordinator with the Easter Seal. He also works hard in his role as curmudgeon grandfather.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

  Robert Heinlein in Time Enough for Love.

As some of you might know this domain also carries some pages containing advice for Cub Scout leaders. There are many external links, especially from search engines, to these Scouting pages and they get a lot of trafic. There are no links from these pages to my personal pages. In order to get here from there, one must manually change the url. Each week several people do this - I suppose they are curious. Every now and then some Bushie Brownshirt stumbles upon one of my personal pages and goes postal.

If they leave an email addy, I attempt to reason with them,



Anyone concerned about the danger of terrorist attacks should read up on the the most effective terrorist in history: Queen Bodacea of the Icinni tribe of early Britton.
If you should believe that the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 was terrible, try to imagine how the inhabitants of the two largest Roman cities in Brittain, Londinium and n felt when

More thoughts:

I went to a rally for Dennis Kucinich this week. I seem to agree with him on a lot of issues but he doensn't have the money that Hillary and Obama can rise so there is little chance he will get the nomination. I think that the press wants a Clinton/Giuliani race. Both carry enough baggage so they (the Media) can control who wins and so then control the oval Office. Wan't this supposed to be a democracy?