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Hey, I'm just a a retired journalist and publisher (OK, so I've been a photographer, printing company owner, and worked in radio as well as the print media (not TV though, I don't stoop THAT low). I've started, and failed at, a number of businesses including a photo studio, written and published a comic book (wanna buy 4,893 un-circulated copies?), taught myself BASIC on a Commodore 64 (that's a first generation personal computer), have written a couple of novels (which remain unpublished as of this writing, but I have high hopes for them), flown radio-controlled airplanes (but not the "real" ones) and live in Northern California (out in the boonies where, I constantly tell folks, our biggest problem is dodging loose cows) and am enjoying the scenery and benefits of clean air, lack of drive-by shootings and the absence of noisy neighbors. Excuse me a moment. "YES, DEAR, what?" Oh, yes, and, I've just been reminded, my wife of many, long-suffering years.

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