afleetcommand
February 18th, 2008, 04:55 AM
Life in a box...let me see:
Raced Motocross and Harescrambles steadily from 1973 to 1989, entered the "A" class or Expert Class as it was called then in 1981. I picked up Riding and Racing motorcycles again in ernest as an old fart in 1998. Ran RMEC HareScrambles and discovered AHRMA Vintage stuff. Last race was the AHRMA H&H Harescramble National at Milliken Colorado where I won my class on a 1982 Husqvarna. Couple of midlife crissis injury's took that racing game away.
Spent 5 years as a Manufacturing Engineer Specializing in CAM and CNC machines.
Spent 13 years working for Companies selling CAD/CAM software doing everything from customer hardware & software support, training, product development, sales, and eventually product management. During that time moved to Colorado.
Ditched (pun intended) that career! Too much international travel! Caused some life changes and did a reboot. Started an excavation business in Colorado along side the Computer Career until time constraints made the computer career..end. Eventually sold out and "bought the farm" (An old, run down, Dairy Farm) in New York State. We are (My wife & I) are trying to reboot this old farm into a horse farm dedicated to the rehab of retired race horses...and we have made a lot of progress. It will be the bulk of my efforts for the rest of my life to re-build this place. The motorsports and "Tech Geek" sides of me still peeks through now and then with my hobbies.
Hobbies now are:
Old Dirt Bikes...My favorite to ride around here is an old 1979 KTM420
BIG old Chainsaws. My Saw collection is a "working" collection as I spend a LOT of time maintaining the 14 miles of trails, building stalls, building fence, generating firewood for the winters....etc. My two favorites are a McCulloch 797 123cc monster and a Homelite XL-903...they do a lot of time around here.
Raising the last of our kids.
Taking Race Horses from a future in "France" to productive lives in more accommodating homes.
What ever my wife wants.
1990 era Unix based workstations. I know there will only a few with a CLUE what a HP9000 715/100 PA7100XC Risc processor based system is; but I have a few up and running..refugee's from the town dump. A hobby for these CNY winters.
And this landed me here.
Raced Motocross and Harescrambles steadily from 1973 to 1989, entered the "A" class or Expert Class as it was called then in 1981. I picked up Riding and Racing motorcycles again in ernest as an old fart in 1998. Ran RMEC HareScrambles and discovered AHRMA Vintage stuff. Last race was the AHRMA H&H Harescramble National at Milliken Colorado where I won my class on a 1982 Husqvarna. Couple of midlife crissis injury's took that racing game away.
Spent 5 years as a Manufacturing Engineer Specializing in CAM and CNC machines.
Spent 13 years working for Companies selling CAD/CAM software doing everything from customer hardware & software support, training, product development, sales, and eventually product management. During that time moved to Colorado.
Ditched (pun intended) that career! Too much international travel! Caused some life changes and did a reboot. Started an excavation business in Colorado along side the Computer Career until time constraints made the computer career..end. Eventually sold out and "bought the farm" (An old, run down, Dairy Farm) in New York State. We are (My wife & I) are trying to reboot this old farm into a horse farm dedicated to the rehab of retired race horses...and we have made a lot of progress. It will be the bulk of my efforts for the rest of my life to re-build this place. The motorsports and "Tech Geek" sides of me still peeks through now and then with my hobbies.
Hobbies now are:
Old Dirt Bikes...My favorite to ride around here is an old 1979 KTM420
BIG old Chainsaws. My Saw collection is a "working" collection as I spend a LOT of time maintaining the 14 miles of trails, building stalls, building fence, generating firewood for the winters....etc. My two favorites are a McCulloch 797 123cc monster and a Homelite XL-903...they do a lot of time around here.
Raising the last of our kids.
Taking Race Horses from a future in "France" to productive lives in more accommodating homes.
What ever my wife wants.
1990 era Unix based workstations. I know there will only a few with a CLUE what a HP9000 715/100 PA7100XC Risc processor based system is; but I have a few up and running..refugee's from the town dump. A hobby for these CNY winters.
And this landed me here.