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Okay. I'm a writer, so I use words. Here is a list of some of the articles I have had published. (If you must see a picture, click on my name up there in the heading.) Sorry about that. I'm also a geek. I provide hardware and software technical support, both on- and off-site. I even give free tech support on Efnet in #win95help when I can find the time.
I spend way too much time reading newsgroups and responding to frantic users with crashed or misbehaving systems. I hang out in any group that has Windows 95 in the name, not to mention assorted hardware groups.
Sadly, newsgroup promulgation being what it is, the unhappy users may not get an answer until a week or so later, after they have already smashed the computer with a sledge hammer and tossed it into the garbage (from which Dave and I try to retrieve bits and pieces to build yet another system to give to yet another kid.) (Note run-on sentence.)
I use Windows 95, but still support the Windows 3.x stuff, always with a DOS box open. (Nothing can beat the command prompt for speed, accuracy and easy file management, as far as I'm concerned.) Being a masochist, I ran Stacker on my three hard drives. Although Stacker worked well, it was SLOW [16-bit access], so I finally deleted my stacvolumes in November 1996 and moved on to Drivespace 3.0. Don't get me started on the great Stacker 4.1 for Windows 95 fiasco. (Clue: NOT.) Also, don't ask me about Iomega tech support or repair for their hardware.[1]
I've done freelance writing for, I guess, about seventeen years, and have had hundreds of magazine articles published under my maiden name, Kathy Tracey. I also write tech manuals and tech support instruction sheets. Even so, I have yet to sell a piece of darned fiction. Well, once, but they never printed it. Sigh. At least I was paid.
I was editor, publisher and writer of the Penn Jersey Amateur Radio Club newsletter, when I felt like it and when I remembered to, until they foolishly elected me president in December 1996. (I immediately named myself "Queen" instead because, hey, I wanted to.)
I'm also into what is euphemistically referred to as the study of comparative religions. So there.
I was SysOp of The RoundTable BBS (908-689-2930) for nine and a half years. Naturally, with the Internet, homegrown BBSes are becoming a rarity and user-challenged. Especially DOS-based ones like mine, which ran WWIV and four CDROMs. Our user base was 800+, but the actual usage had dropped to about forty calls a day when we closed down in December 1996. It was designed to introduce kids (Scouts) and adults to the concept of going online.
Being a sucker, I do lots of volunteer stuff, like having been on the Washington Borough School Board for a few years, until I was slaughtered in 1995 in my fourth election. I understand that I was the twelfth person in the State of New Jersey to be awarded Master Boardmember status (after a half day of testing by comprehensive exam) by the N. J. School Boards Association. Of course, I lost the election later that same week or something.
Like Dave, I've done the Little League thing, the Scouting thing and also served on the Warren County Human Services Advisory Commission for a couple of years.
I have amateur radio license KB2UTR, and am Digital Communications [and Packet Radio] Officer for the Warren County RACES division of the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management. That means that I get to play with their computers, too.
I have three cats, two kids, one newt and opinions on EVERYTHING.
Well, this is beginning to sound like a resume or some such, and I'm boring myself. So maybe I'll catch you in the newsgroups or on IRC.
[1] See previous clue.
[2] What are you looking at this for? There was NO footnote marked 2, was there? Well, why are you reading this then? Quit it. Now. Knock it off or I'll get cranky. Click here. Duh.
Email slawson@nac.net.
For your convenience, a list of local links on this page:
kathpix.htm Ugly pictures of me.
katharts.htm A list of some of the articles I have had published.
kb2utrc.jpg A jpeg of my amateur radio QSL card.
catpix.htm Pictures of my three cats.
