Alrighty then ! . . . A long, long time ago, in a city far, far away, there was born unto an Italian immigrant family a bambino who would grow up to become the Ol' Desperado.  After running wild on the streets of Brooklyn, New York for nearly two dozen years, I decided to do something with myself, so I joined the U. S. Army in the mid '60s.  (Which is more than we can say for a certain very high ranking government official who we've all come to know and disrespect, and who shall remain nameless.)  Besides, enlisting gave me more control over my future than did the great and mighty DRAFT.

    So I did my time, kept my nose clean and was separated from Active Duty in February of 1986.  During that twenty year period, I met and married a drop dead georgeous sweetie   from Queens, New York, stopped running wild (yeah, right!), traveled hither and yon to far away places with strange sounding names, did my part to bring three wonderful children into this world, and grew up (mostly).  Unfortunately, I was unable to bring Peace to the Middle East, so someone else will have to take up that slack.

    Today I am in charge of shipping and receiving at the local outlet of a major national retailer of consumer electronics. After spending so many years in direct, over the counter type retail situations, it is refreshing indeed to be working in the background.  In my position as warehouse supervisor, I spend much of my time overseeing the accurate handling and processing of both inbound and outbound freight.  W O W ! !  (Sorry, I cannot give you my employee discount on all those way cool electronic goodies out there.)

    I also work part time taking phoned in delivery orders at a neighborhood outlet of a national restaurant chain.  I'm really surprised that I haven't gained a ton of weight considered all the "quality checks" that are done.

Ever since I was dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century, I have never ceased to marvel at the vast amount of resources available out there on the "Information Super Highway", e.g. the hugh selection of graphics and animations that can be used to spice up a cyber document.

One of these embelishments is a remarkably powerful little tool called the Lake Applet. I don't know how I surfed upon it, but I'm really glad I did.

A must see resource is Flaming Text. You can get just killer banners, headlines, text lines etc. there. The cow pattern at the top of this page, the  flame text on another page, and the title header on my main page all came from Flaming Text. Check it out!

    Well, I guess that's kinda it for now. I'll be keeping this thing updated, so stay tuned. I toyed with the idea of posting a current picture of me, but I'm really afraid that anyone looking at it will turn to stone. Or I might be blamed for cracking too many monitor screens. If you're ever in Northern Virginia in the vicinity of D.C., give the Ol' Desperado a shout on CB channel 19.