airmojo
07-21-2008, 10:18 AM
Hi everybody!
I've been a long time subscriber to BWH after American Survival Guide went belly-up. I enjoy every issue and the anthologies.
My family (wife and 16 year old son) live on a 15 acre wooded lot in Hamden (near Chardon, about 40 miles northeast of Cleveland) where my wife and I had our house built in 1988. We're in the heart of the Ohio snowbelt where we get lots of lake effect snow from Lake Erie (average about 110 inches per year).
I enjoy fishing, hunting, archery, and shooting firearms and especially airguns. I also enjoy music, playing harmonicas, and walking.
Seems harder and harder to become self-reliant these days, but its always something I've strived to achieve, but working for a living, raising a family, and paying bills always seem to take a higher priority.
I'm looking forward to retiring some day. I'm a computer application systems analyst working mainly for one company the past 33 years with mainframe HR and Benefits applications. The company sold me and the IT professionals out to an outsourcing company several years ago. I still sit at the same desk, just get paid alot less (no pay raises) with lesser or inferior benefits. Hard to keep a good atitude the way companies treat employees these days, especially when you remember the good old days when they treated you like family and were always concerned about "doing the right thing".
Hopefully when retirement comes (voluntarily or involuntarily), I'll be able to spend more time enjoying important things like family, hobbies, fishing, hunting, gardening, cooking... and good health, family, and friends!
I've been a long time subscriber to BWH after American Survival Guide went belly-up. I enjoy every issue and the anthologies.
My family (wife and 16 year old son) live on a 15 acre wooded lot in Hamden (near Chardon, about 40 miles northeast of Cleveland) where my wife and I had our house built in 1988. We're in the heart of the Ohio snowbelt where we get lots of lake effect snow from Lake Erie (average about 110 inches per year).
I enjoy fishing, hunting, archery, and shooting firearms and especially airguns. I also enjoy music, playing harmonicas, and walking.
Seems harder and harder to become self-reliant these days, but its always something I've strived to achieve, but working for a living, raising a family, and paying bills always seem to take a higher priority.
I'm looking forward to retiring some day. I'm a computer application systems analyst working mainly for one company the past 33 years with mainframe HR and Benefits applications. The company sold me and the IT professionals out to an outsourcing company several years ago. I still sit at the same desk, just get paid alot less (no pay raises) with lesser or inferior benefits. Hard to keep a good atitude the way companies treat employees these days, especially when you remember the good old days when they treated you like family and were always concerned about "doing the right thing".
Hopefully when retirement comes (voluntarily or involuntarily), I'll be able to spend more time enjoying important things like family, hobbies, fishing, hunting, gardening, cooking... and good health, family, and friends!