a) Name- David Flory b) Contact details &/or location - e-mail address is: daflory_at_pacbell.net I live in San Jose, CA., near Japantown. c) Self Propelled Boats Kayaks owned or paddled - used to own 2 Royaks, but about 20 years ago my X and I split and she took all the material things and I took retirement free and clear. For about 3 mos. I've owned a Cobra Explorer SOT and am looking at a Triak for my wife. She's not excited about tippy little boats. I have already started lusting after Sports Touring Surf Ski. d) Boat name and serial number if maritime radio operator e) Special interests - Kayaking, free diving, Aikido, superslow weight lifting, Mac Computers (LOVE my new DSL account), English Cocker Spaniels, Motorcycles, surfing the web and my wife, not necessarily in that order. f) Specialist knowledge - Most anything you want to know about Macs, motorcycle riding, still an AFAA certified weight trainer, but will be letting be that expire as I got tired of working at 24 Hr. Fitness and having my arm twisted to sell contracts. g) Strong opinions - I have strong opinions on almost everything. Ask me about something. :-) h) Most interesting kayak trip - not anything terribly exciting yet, most interesting were watching otters off of the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and travelling Elkhorn Slough. The longest trip I ever took was the shoreline circumference of Lake of the Woods, North of Klamath Falls, Ore. in the Royaks. i) Biography - Born in San Francisco in Feb. of 1938, went thru' primary and secondary school in Grants Pass, Oregon. College yielded a BA in Biology from Harvard College. Worked in Medical Research in the Path. Dept. of Mass. General Hospital in Boston for 3 years. I studied Uechi-ryu Okinawan Karate there. Then I worked in the same field at NASA, Moffett Field for a year. While there I fell into an Aikido Class which was all San Jose Police Officers. In Dec. 1963 I went to work for SJPD and retired from there in Jan. 1994. While at the PD I worked lots things, Motors for 4 years as an officer and, later, 10 years as a Sgt., supervised records, worked in Communications, did the system design for our first automated dispatch system, taught M/C officers how to ride for 5 years, acted as the Computer Crimes unit for 3 years, and ended my time at the PD in Court Liaison running a network of 15 macs and writing databases in FileMaker Pro. During this time I was dive activities chairman for the Bay Area Sierra Club Dive section for two years, and taught M/C riding for MSF for about 5 years. I owned the above mentioned Royaks for about 12 years, and still own a 600 Kawasaki Ninja M/C which I am going to sell, soon. We drive my red Honda Del Sol and the kayak transporter, a white Plymouth Voyager. Today I got hooked up with PacBell DSL and set up IPNetRouter so my wife and I can both use it at once. El Neato! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 27 1999 - 21:55:50 PDT
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