So Who Are You?

[Terry]

I am 45 years old,wife is a little younger (she doesn't like to give out her age). We have 2 children, a son 20, who just got married a couple of weeks ago, and a daughter who is 18. We are all avid skiers and are out every weekend. I am a mechanic and my wife is a sales representative for a kitchen cabinet co. My son is a mechanic also, and my daughter is a senior at Fryeburg Academy, and planning to become a nurse. This is a good thing because she can take care of us when we get old!!I am hoping to ski more this winter than last, didn't make my goal last year. I was shooting for 70 days, but could only muster 69! The rain in April really screwed up a couple of weekends but had a great season anyways!!
:beer:

 

[Brettski]

Name: Brett
Nickname: Brettski (duh)
Physical Age: 44
Mental Age: mid-20's somewhere
Occ: "Solutions Provider" (That's the best I can come up with; DB2 OS/390, Sybase, Oracle 8i, SQL Server, COBOL, REXX, ISPF, TSO, Platinum, VB, M$ Office products, yada, yada, yada, 25 years is a long time)
Married: 17 yeras (This October)
Kids: 3 (12, 9, 7)
Hobby's: Skiing, Ice Hockey, Tennis, Roller Hockey, Street Hockey, Salt water fishing, Music (Concerts and stuff), Golf, softball, Frisbee Golf/Ultimate, Blackjack (This Poker thing is WAY over blown), More to come...
Coaching: little league baseball (finals three years in a row), Girls Soccer, Flag Footbal, Street Hockey
Time: 0
Recent Accomplishment: Getting the whole family all over Jay Peak. Like the fact that they don't list any double blacks, although Kitzbuhl was a bit dicey on the right split coming down.
TV: Cable free
Location: West Orange, NJ
Closest Ski area: Mountain Creek
# of time skied the with family at M/C: 0
# of time planned to ski at M/C: 0
Learned to ski: Vernon Valley (Mountain Creek)
Started skiing: 1981
Got Serious: 1989
First Real Mountain: Stowe
First time scared out of my wits: Chin Clip, with skis with no camber
First New Skis: The next day (Kastle 195's)
Next time I felt that way: Above Tree line at Blackcomb
Best Memory: How awesome Sunday River was my first time with only 3 mountains
Most unresolved fantasy: Never mind..has something to do with a Gondola...where have all the small, slow moving gondolas have gone?
Life long Ambition: Ski Instructor (my Neighbor is Chickie Rosenberg, she and her husband are both instructors at kmart...I'm jelly)
Ride: 2004 Town and Country
Travel to Work: by Train
Work Location: Beautiful Downtown Newark, NJ
Work Building: Target for the next Al Queda hit
Other things: Love the "shore" (Well Island Beach State Park mostly), and going in to the City (There really is only one City that can be called THE City)
Place that I want to visit: Well now it's
Portillo in the summer

There's probably more...but who's next?

 

[Brettski]

Fav Lodge Food: Top of the Notch Venison Stew or The Seafood chowda

 

[Brettski]

Shirley that can't be everyone, come on up, don't be shy

 

[ALLSKIING]

You get free cable. :beer:

 

[Brettski]

No, Cable free, like in sugar free.

We watch a lot of PBS.

We also are on the top of the first Mountain West of New York City. I get about another dozen UHF Channels...

I can watch a lot of soccer in spanish

I just miss watching Hockey...but that give me a reason the head down to the brewpub...

 

[ctenidae]

Any reason to go to the brewpub is a good reason, hockey or no.

 

[Brettski]

It ain't the beer works...but it's ok

The pub in question:

http://www.gaslightbrewery.com/

 

[skijay]

Wow! I am not the only cable TV free person around. I only have cable for my internet.

 

[Brettski]

I was gonna start a club, but then there would only be the 2 of us...maybe we can start a poll

 

[dmc]

I was gonna start a club, but then there would only be the 2 of us...maybe we can start a poll

I saw this thing about polls on cable last night and...

ummm... oh... nevermind...

I LOVE CABLE TV!!!
6 flavors of the Discovery Channel...
History Channel...
Home and Garden channel..
OLN...

 

[smitty77]

[I LOVE CABLE TV!!!
6 flavors of the Discovery Channel...
History Channel...
Home and Garden channel..
OLN...

Word has it OLN got the tv contract for two games each week of NHL Hockey. I wonder who will do the announcing? Hopefully not Bob Roll.... :roll:

Smitty

 

[Brettski]

Home and Garden?

And Yes OLN has picked up the Contract becuase No one else will pay for it.

They should give the product away...they should be thinjing about obtaining market share, and not revenues....I love hockey, but the NHL sure screwed up.

 

[una_dogger]

I'll play too

Name: Sabrina La Fave
Age: 38
I live in the Hudson Valley Region of NY in a rented cottage on the back 40 of a large farm.
I enjoy hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, photography (not as much as I'd like), cooking, trailrunning (a little less now since a spinal fracture two years ago), and I try to do all of it avec chien.
I have a great little dog named Terra Firma who is my favorite activity partner (doesn't complain, always ready to go, never asks to stop at McD's on the way to the trailhead).
I love animals and other people's kids.
I have no plans to marry every again after a ten year marriage fell apart in 2001.
Hmmmm....I was an environmental chemist for ten years and am currently in the clinical rotation phase of a Medical Technologist degree.
Planning to move in 2006 after I graduate, looking at Colorado or the Pacific Northwest, or perhaps the Adirondacks.
That's about it!
Its great reading about everyone.

OH! I almost forgot, I don't downhill ski. I like to cross country ski but I'm not very good (meaning great endurance and the Will to ski, but I fall alot!) Last winter I dabbled in training Terra to skiijor.

 

[jstarks188]

howdy all
i'm 47 y/o i sell replacement parts for really big trucks,this after selling car parts in a retail environment for 20 years.
Once i woke about 8 years ago and needed to find myself a life---i finally figured out retail store hours suck !
Once i changed careers i started hiking with a vengence somewhere around 1200 miles since 2001.I even found the greatest girl to spend time with,Carol and I hike together as much as we can
i love listening to and collecting all sorts of rock and roll music and blues,i'm a hardcore eric clapton junkie,fav players garcia ,clapton ,allman
too many blues players to mention and jazz guitar players from the 1930's well i could go on and on about cool music......maybe new thread??
cya in the woods
jack

 

[Brettski]

work on a large healthcare system as a database programmer in Albany

D-

Which company?

And what's the db platform?

Any openings?

 

[dmc]

work on a large healthcare system as a database programmer in Albany

D-

Which company?
Work for CSC on a state contract(Medicaid)..

And what's the db platform?
We use Teradata as a DBMS for our data warehouse...
Any openings?
Not that I know of... I keeep my head low around here.

 

[ga2ski]

30 married (in 2002)
we have a dog named Powdah
civil/environmental engineer
Interests: skiing, hiking, biking, skiing, hockey (especially UNH Hockey), watching football (Patriots)and baseball (Red Sox), and skiing
I grew up in Meredith NH. Now, we own a home in Hooksett NH.

I have skied since 1982 (started at age 7) .. . Switched to tele in November 2003. Ski mostly at SR and have an All 4 1 pass. Oh yeah I used to teach at Sr from fall 1997 through Spring 2000.

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

32 Married for 5yrs

2 girls 3.5 yrs and 6mo

Grew up in CT, started skiing at 3 in VT

Villanova Grad 95

Now living on Long Island (North Shore)

Own a computer hardware distribution company, selling CISCO IBM HP 3Com etc to systems integrators and the government. We also do network services for small-mid business and residentials in the surrounding area. Any of you IT guys out there need hardware for your networks, let me know

Had my little one skiing last year at 2.5

Looking for property/condo in VT

 

[BeanoNYC]

Hey Quattro .... I grew up in Seaford. (South Shore)