Well, where do I start? First let me thank you all for this honor of serving with such a fine group of people. It has been a pleasure conversing with all of you in the past and look forward to many more years of it. We have a great group of people on this list and I am sure we will grow bigger and better.

I am a Licensed Interior Designer in Baton Rouge, LA. For twenty-one years I had been designing Interiors, this past year I just started with Bassett Furniture Direct, I am now doing Residential Interior Design. This is a new and different avenue of expression for me, most of my past work was commercial office interiors.

I have been married, let me think......., for 24 years, to Judy. Judy is a nurse, and she works in Chelation Therapy. My son is 20 and is a Junior at L.S.U. He is majoring in English, at this time. I hope to get him to go into Education, he would make a great teacher, he love kids.

My fish keeping skills come from 35 years of aquariums. Although I must admit that I have really started to read and learn more about the hobby within the last 7 years, guess the Internet had a lot to do with that. I was lucky and fish were easier to keep in my earlier days. These days, I really enjoy learning all I can about the hobby. Many people on this list have inspired me with new, innovative and different ways of doing things. I like to think out of the box and this group has very diverse ideas that are shared.

Tanks again, and I am looking forward to working (playing) with you all.

One last thing PLEASE excuse my spelling / typing at times, it is very bad.