Ferg
I was born on October 1st, 1952 in Wenatchee,
WA. I grew up in Wenatchee and graduated from Wenatchee
High School in 1970. I had alot of fun
while growing up. I was drafted into the Army
in 1971 and spent time in New Jersey, New Mexico, and Utah. I worked as an Airborne Frequency Surveillance Test Specialist
in Albuquerque. I was discharged in 1973 and went to Wenatchee Valley College
for the next two years. While attending school, I met Donna
and we were married. We had our first child, Candy,
before I graduated. I recieved my AAA in Forestry Technology. I worked for the US
Forest Servive for a couple of years, but went back in the Army in 1976 (I can't believe it either). This time I spent time in Alabama, Kansas, and Germany. During this hitch, I worked as a Automatic Test Equipment Tech,
testing and repairing anti-tank weapons. Then in Alabama as a Technical Writer. We had a son while in Kansas, we named him Tim.
I picked up another College degree from John C. Calhoun State College in Huntsville, Alabama. It was a AAS in Missile and Munitions Technology.
We had another daughter, Kimberley,
born in Germany. I recieved my honorable (and final) discharge in 1984 after giving Uncle Sam a
little over 10 years. Back in Wenatchee, I went to work at Apple
Valley Telephone Inc. and went to Wenatchee Valley College at night. I got another
100 or so credits and decided I was done with school (my GI Bill allowance ran out). I worked as a telephone technician, installing
and servicing phone systems and equipment for about nine years untill the
company was sold to Televar Northwest Inc. I did the same work, maybe a little
more computer networking. It lasted for a couple of years. Then Computerland
Network and Telephone bought the phone part of Televar,
so then I worked for Computerland.
Besides the telephone side of the job, I got to do computer work too (networking, repair, voice mail,
etc.). Now I work for Verizon Communications , formally GTE, as a Special
Services Technician. I'm based in Wenatchee, but my work area covers all of North Central Washington.
Donna's oldest Son, Scott Peterson and his wife Melissa,
are living in Blythe, CA. He is a
teacher at Palo Verde college and is doing very well. My oldest daughter Candy is
currently in Astoria, Oregon. My son Tim
is living in Kirkland, WA wih his wife Shannon. He is working for a software development company. My youngest daughter
, Kim lives with us while attending Wenatchee Valley
College and is studing accounting. My hobbies are working on my computers, surfing the Net, genealogy, and astronomy. Everybody is in good health.
Life is Good!!!
My computer presently consists of:
A Pentium 4 540 3.2 Ghz Gaming Mid Tower computer
Abit AA8 DuraMax 3rd Eye Mobo with 1 gig dual channel Corsair DDR2/533 DIMM
Gigabyte GV-NX66T128 GeForce 6600 GT PCI-Express Graphics Accelerator
DSL with a Linksys Wireless Access Point Router
Western Digital 160 SATA and 60 gig IDE HDs
NEC 16x Dual layer DVD burner
Running Windows Xp Pro SP3