We are indeed the people our parents warned us 
against! Our generation, the Boomers, have been 
through a lot - some of it joyous, some of it painful. 
We are now approaching the autumn of our  years. Part 
of that stage of life is reflecting on what we have 
done and what we will do with the time we have left. 
Jimmy Buffett does that in his best-selling book, 
A Pirate Looks at Fifty. As I read it, I'll try to 
pick out some interesting quotes and thoughts and put 
them here. Jimmy turned 52 in December - Ed turned 52 
in January. We are growing older, but not up.

I was born on January 27, 1947, the same year as 
the transistor was invented. I share the same birth 
date as Mozart. I love sailing, music, and walking 
in the woods. I try to work out or run five days a 
week or at least do some exercise. In my younger 
days, I rode a motorcycle across the country and 
later up to Alaska. 

Dorothy and I traveled around the world together, 
lived in Kirksville,  Missouri and then in The Hague 
in  Holland. Ironically, we returned to Connecticut 
where I grew up and where we met. I started my 
business, Micro Services Group, in 1988 and do 
computer training, repair and systems work for 
a variety of customers.

My first memory is being on a boat - not a real 
boat, but a child-size boat at a carnival. It was 
like a merry-go-round in water. I was two or 
three at the time.

I grew up in the age of the ideal family. One of 
the first TV shows that I remember watching was I 
Remember Mama on Friday nights. Later, along came 
the famous TV families of the Fifties: remember 
the Nelsons (Ozzie, Harriet, Ricky, and David), 
the Andersons (Jim, Margaret, Bud, Princess, and 
Kitten), the Cleavers (the Beaver - Theodore, Wally, 
June, Ward, and of course my namesake - Eddie Haskell), 
and the Stones (Donna, Dr. Alex  Mary, Jeff, and 
Trish). Families are rarely ideal and I certainly 
didn't understand much about family dynamics 
growing up. 

I was the son of a sailor. My father's life and 
only love was the Navy. He was in the Navy for 20 
years. That was the high point of his life. My mother 
had been severely abused as a young child and was 
removed from her home. One can only imagine what 
happened to be taken from her mother and step-father's 
home in the 1920s. My mother could only love little 
children and dogs. My mother would tell me that if 
you could read, you would never be lonely. She was 
wrong. Books don't replace people or experiences.

What I do:

I am the PC Coordinator for Continuing Education at 
Manchester Community-Technical College where I teach 
a well-received introductory class called Meet the PC. 
At Northwestern Connecticut Community-Technical College, 
I teach a variety of continuing education classes 
focusing on Word, Access, and Excel.. Some of the other 
classes I've taught include courses on  DOS, Windows, 
Lotus1-2-3, WordPro, QuickBooks, and Novell NetWare 3.1x. 

Manchester Community-Technical College Continuing Education 
Northwestern Connecticut Community-Technical College 

Hobbies: Sailing, music, cooking, and more...



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