Ed Harriger's Place

aka: This is the Home Page

 

Really, someday I intend to update these 3+ year old pages.  In the meantime I've made some minor changes.

Me, sitting at the dinner table with my laptop in front of me. I have a desktop computer, but hardly ever use it these days. Like me, it is becoming an antiquated thing at 200 Mhz. Ah... for the good old days.

Anita, a rushed close up. She was busy doing housework and I popped in with the camera. It was hurry up and get a picture or get mowed down while she was straightening the bedroom.

This is Robert "Bob" Cat. Mr. Bob, as I call him, is big - about 25 lbs. He is the only one left of three cats. The other 'boy' cat, Spider, ran away or got himself ate by something while after Oct. 15, 2005. That was the day he left the house and never came back. The other cat, Rags, who was 17 when she passed on, had a stroke and died in the back yard. Her passing was of benefit to the hungry racoons who found her remains. She (or what was left of her) is buried in the side yard.

Oh yeah, this is our 50" Vizio Plasma. I did a lot of research, and plasmas are good but seem to have a problem with image burn in. I don't game on the television, so that should not be a problem. I figure, at $1500 vs. $2700 for comparable LCD, it's worth a gamble. The TV this one replaced was a 32" Sony analog which was over 20 years old, and had no discernable picture image remaining.

I'm headed for 66, a fair to middlin' Baptist who tries to attend church regularly.   I used to maintain the website for First Baptist Church, but that got beyond my skill level in features desired, so I turned all that over to our Youth Pastor, Alex Enfiedjian.  He's doing a great job with the web site. 

I live in God's Country - Pacific Grove California, on the tip of the Monterey Peninsula.  On a clear day I can see up the coast of California, clear to Pigeon Point which is about 100 miles away.  When folks in the east have snow, we have sun shine and sultry weather.  When they have summer we have fog and cool days.   This draws a lot of people from the San Joaquin Valley in the summer.

Hobbies and Interests: Computing, net-surfing, reading science fiction, genealogy, bike riding (if I had a good bike), in-line skating (if I had skates), enjoying sunny days and smelling the flowers.  I usually step over bugs and other small things that crawl on the ground - God put them there for a reason.

I maintain websites for Monterey County Peace Officer's Association, Monterey County Sheriff's Advisory Committee. and , my personal site.

This web page is a set of links I like - actually, my favorites. They are things I'm interested in, or places I go to find information about other things. I am always surprised by the things I learn on the way to looking up something else. I owe an eternal debt of gratitude to columnist Jack Anderson for introducing me to the concept of "Things I learned on the way to looking up something else." That is the essence of discovery.

I used to work at Pacific Grove Police Department, but I retired in January '98.  I was the Captain - aka: Assistant Chief of Police, and have lived long enough into retirement to thank God for some good health, and to appreciate retiring earlier than later, as Mr. Keith Richman, former state Assemblyman would have public servants doing. He doesn't think we deserve a good retirement package. Ah, enough on him... you can look him up on google. Just Google keith richman retirement'. 

Anita, my one and only wife, the light of my life, retired from PG Adult Ed Center on 12/19/97 a few weeks before me - If you live in the Monterey area, check out Pacific Grove Adult Education Center which has a great on-line catalog of courses for adults - a great place to take classes if you want to enhance your life, but don't want a collegiate atmosphere.

We are enjoying our retirement together. We spend a lot of time travelling. In the past ten years we've been cross country several times: to New York then up to Canada - New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, (hey folks, it's not kew-beck, it kehh-beck. Thank you for honoring the French pronunciation) and through the New England States, then we've been across country to Virginia via the grain belt - Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, New Mexico and Texas. We've also rambled around Utah, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Western Nevada.

Oh yeah, we've been ip to Oregon and Washington, across those states to Idaho, across there into Montana and down through the Dakotas to Colorado. If there is a place in Colorado which is a favorite place: Cortez, Co., nice town and Mesa Verde is just up the road. We've been to northern California a bunch of times and will be there in the future - family there around Eureka you know. Visited a cousin in Lincoln City, Oregon; worst storm in 50 years, it rained so hard the rain flooded our trailer, from the top down! We left just before the coastal area was cut off by flooded rivers and mud slides. In February when the rest of the country is hip deep in snow, we like to head to Death Valley for a week or so, or over to Pahrump, NV. We enjoy the temperate days and the wildflowers as they bloom. Used to go to the high desert of southern California around Victorville and Apple Valley, but Anita's brother, Ken Died in 2006, so there is no longer any reason to visit there.

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