Backround:  Married w/ 2 kids, 2 cats, and too many taxes (NYS), Retired Architect and mentor, Viet Nam Vet ('69-'70), and all around nice guy!

Primary Interest: 

Model Railroading in HO scale, Model Railroad author, member of Niagara Orleans  Model Railroad Engineers modular railroad club, and top 10,000 reviewer.

Secondary Interest:

Guitar Music by the Ventures, the Shadows, The T-Bones, along with The Byrds, Beatles, Traveling Wilburys, Fleetwood Mac, Brian Adams, The Beach boys, Chris DeBurgh.

I like to tinker with guitar playing and now own 6 and 12 string Strats that I customized with Carvin pickups and an original '78 Mosrite that I play through a blackface Fender Deluxe Reverb amp.