Welcome to the New Pete's Place

I've given up on Adobe Dreamweaver. I have always worked with a direct text editor like Notepad.exe or an HTML-augmented editor like Graf's HTMLtool. Since I'm now working on a Mac, I'm trying BBEdit.

Sporadically updated shot of me, so you don't forget what I look like.

Interests:

• Books - Books and reading are central to everything I do
• Boating - Formerly an avid boater, but I have given my boat to my daughter. I'm done climbing in and out of boats. I still like boating and the water, though
• Wine - I enjoy wine: tasting it, learning about it, acquiring interesting wines, drinking it.
• Machining and Woodworking - I like making things.
• Computers - I've been playing with home computers since about 1978.
• Yellow - My favorite color, which is why you are seeing this on a yellow background.
• Genealogy - I've been researching my family tree.
  • Good facilites for recording and researching US family at Ancestry.com/
  • Super researchers for Scot ancestors at Scot Family tree
  • Also getting interested in DNA genealogy at Family Tree DNA
  • I've been digitizing family photographs. As of Oct 2009 I have 365 out of about 5000 photos digitized and annotated.

What I'm doing:

• Learning BBEdit©
• Re-reading many of my old favorite books.
• Hosting MNATM - Monday Night At The Movies

Who I am:

• My collected .sig files - in the sense that what you quote defines you.
• My Flats Pages - a part of the world I dearly love, along with a little family history, some opinion,
  and a home-grown science lecture. Trying to follow all the links is as good as a puzzle.
• Some Cranky Notions - everybody has them, don't they?

My family:

• My wife: Eva (a place-holder for a web page)
• My sons:
  • Mark (gone now - too soon)
  • Cary (no page)
• My daughter: Phyllis
• My mom: Marguerite (Meg) who got some of her memories into writing. I now host these pages on my site.
  There are a few more family memoirs in her papers. I will try to find them and put them here.
• My dad: William (Bill); dad is now gone, too. Memoirs, commentary on life, 6-piece burr puzzles.
  I now host these pages, as well. If I can find more writings in his papers, I will add them.