User:ChuckSimmins

I have been an accounting professional, and EMT. I tend to libertarian / conservative in my perspective on life, and consider myself a lapsed Catholic (the Church left me). I am married to a lovely woman I met on the Internet, before the World Wide Web got popular, and we have a family of four cats.

I was born and raised in a small town in upstate New York. Went to St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, and finally fell into this profession. Discovered computers in college where we learned on a Xerox mainframe (!). I've been a member of the Lions' Clubs, a volunteer firefighter, and for fourteen years a NYS certified EMT-D. From about 1986 to 1992 I ran a small, portrait photography business. I continue to be interested in photography.

I married for the first time at age 40. My wife and I met on the Internet, through a mail list serve, before the World Wide Web. I plyed the Net in those days with my friends Archie, Jughead and Veronica. A bunch of wild and crazy guys up at the University of Minnesota were playing around with something call Mosaic, a product that they said would let you view photographs on the Net. Believe it or not!

I began blogging on Live Journal in January 2002, and set up my own site a few months later.

My work can be found at the following sites:

• America's North Shore Journal
• Helium