My kids told me that I'm the meanest old woman on earth. They are all grown up now and I seem to have gotten sweeter as I aged.

I like computers, cats, and calculus (I really do enjoy math as a hobby). My favorite philosopher is Rene Descartes, probably because he is such a "nit picker" about detail.

I have worked at a number of types of job: from green chain in a sawmill to my own private office. I prefer to work alone.

Milestones include having read Isaac Asimov's short story THE LAST QUESTION in late 1956. It triggered a life-long interest in computers. The story is now on the web at http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

I found fatsecret site through one of the aforementioned kids, my daughter. I have hopes that it may work in the same way the site that helped me quit smoking in 1998 worked. That memorable experience is of accomplishing one of the most difficult things I ever did.