This is where I live! This is Saint Marie, Montana. You are looking east towards Saint Marie from Highway 24.
Can't find Saint Marie on your road atlas? Take a look at the map below. Find Glasgow, go east on Highway 2 for 2 miles until it crosses Highway 24. Turn north (left) on Highway 24 and go about 15 miles. What you see in the background is what you'll see just short of mile marker 17... Saint Marie, Montana!
For those of you that have made it this far, and have a little more time, why not take a look at my music collection or my movie collection?
For enjoying my movies and music I use the following:
PLAYER CD:
Fisher DAC-243
PLAYER LASERDISC:
Denon LA-2300
RECEIVER A/V:
Denon AVR-4306
RECEIVER SATELLITE:
DishNetwork HDTV ViP211
RECORDER CASSETTE:
Sony TC-KA3ES
RECORDER DVD/VHS:
Sony RDR-VX500 DVD/VHS Combo
RECORDER VHS:
Toshiba M-752
SPEAKERS:
Center: Two (2) JBL-HT5
Left Front: Two (2) JBL L-110
Left Rear: One (1) JBL HT-5
Right Front: Two (2) JBL L-110
Right Rear: One (1) JBL HT-5
Subwoofers: Two (2) JBL S2S
SUBWOOFER AMPLIFIER:
Denon AVR-3200
TELEVISION:
Sharp AQUOS 37" LC-37D90U
TURNTABLE:
Denon DP-23F
I'm including a little background of myself here.
First of all I was raised in a small town in New Jersey, by the name of Atlantic Highlands. It was there that I went to grammar school, and it was also there that I spent the first 17 years of my life.
High School was attended at Red Bank Catholic High School.
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the 552nd AEW&C, saw service over Panama, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Viet Nam and several other locations.
The EC-121, originally designated RC-121, was a radar-picket version of the U.S. Air Force's C-121 passenger airplane. The EC-121 provided early warning by detecting and tracking enemy aircraft with the electronic gear in the large radomes above and below its fuselage.
The Air Force ordered 82 EC-121s between 1951 and 1955, 72 of which were EC-121Ds. The EC-121 entered service with the Air Defense Command in 1953, flying patrols off the U.S. coasts as an aerial extension of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line. EC-121s remained in service until they were replaced by more capable E-3 Sentry AWACS (Airborne Warning And Control System). The last EC-121 was retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserve in 1978.
In Southeast Asia, these unarmed radar aircraft aided in downing enemy planes, directed U.S. aircraft to aerial refueling tankers, and guided rescue planes to downed pilots. This aircraft was nicknamed Triple Nickel because of its serial number (53-555). Over the Gulf of Tonkin, it guided a U.S. fighter into position to destroy a MiG-21. This action marked the first time a weapons controller aboard an airborne radar aircraft had ever directed a successful attack on an enemy plane.
TECHNICAL NOTES:
Engines: Four Wright R-3350s of 3,400 hp each
Crew: Varied, but usually 17
Maximum speed: 290 mph
Cruising speed: 240 mph
Range: 4,000 miles
Ceiling: 18,000 ft.
Span: 126 ft. 2 in.
Length: 116 ft. 2 in.
Height: 27 ft.
Weight: 145,000 lbs.
After ending my Air Force tour of duty in 1966, I went to work in electronics for Bell Labs, Delta Data Systems, Honeywell EDP, MAI Electronics and Westinghouse Electronics.
Looking for something else to do, and wanting to travel, I received my degree as a Registered Nurse. I became what was called a "Flying Nurse", "Traveling Nurse", or "Contract Nurse" (my family simply called me "The Gypsy"!). I would cover hospitals throughout the United States on three-month contracts. I have worked as an R.N. in Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The cities have been many, and the hospitals ranged from 10 beds to over 2,000 beds. My specialty was Intensive Care, Coronary Care, Emergency Room and Administrative.
As for Montana...it was nursing that first brought me here. First to Billings, then Fort Belknap, Glasgow, Poplar, Havre and back to Glasgow several times.
In 1976 I purchased my first computer. A Radio Shack Model I. Followed shortly by a Color Computer, then a couple of Radio Shack Model III's. I put two BBS's on-line. The Homeport and the Corsair.
In 1986 I purchased my first "IBM" computer. It was a 286-10...top of the line in those days, and I got my hands on a BBS software program called GT-Power. This began a long and enjoyable relationship with other SYSOPs throughout the GT-Net.
Shortly thereafter I purchased a 386-33 system. And with two computers on-line, 24 hours per day and 7 days per week, I really began to get into BBSing.
It wasn't long after that I bought a 486-50, and yes, I tried to run three BBS's, but it was just too expensive, and the Internet was starting to become "the only way to telecommunicate" (although I still prefer the local BBS aspect).
And just today (February 5, 2007) I finished upgrading my system!
My current system consists of:
CPU:
Pentium 4 3.06gHz with 533 mHz front side buss
MEMORY:
512 meg of Kingston Hyper KHX3200/512 PC-3200 CAS-2 DDR-SDRAM
256 meg of Kingston Hyper KHX3200/256 PC-3200 CAS-2 DDR-SDRAM
MOTHERBOARD:
Soyo Dragon Ultra Platinum
HARDDRIVES:
Four (4) Hitachi T7K500 (320GB, 7200 RPM, 8 megabyte buffer, UDMA 133)
CD BURNERS:
Two (2) LiteOn 52x32x52 CD-RW's
Yahama 40x16x10 CD-RW
DVD BURNER:
Samsung TS-H552B CD/DVD +/-RW Writing Double Layer
(CD 40X, DVD 16X)
FLOPPY DRIVES:
TEAC 1.4 megabyte 3.5 inch
VIDEO CARD:
ATI Radeon 9700 All-In-Wonder PRO with 256 meg of RAM, AGP X8
MONITORS:
ViewSonic 17-inch E70F-5
ViewSonic 17-inch E771
WEBCAM:
Intel PRO-4 USB
MODEMS:
Nemontel.net ADSL (1000K down, 512K up)
MOUSE:
Logitech MX-310 Optical USB
SOUND CARD:
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live!
SPEAKERS:
Cambridge Soundworks FPS-1800 surround sound speaker system
SCANNER:
Flatbed: Microtek ScanMaker X6EL
Negative/Slide: Minolta Dimage Scan Elite
PRINTER:
Hewlett Packard DeskJet 855Cxi
MICROPHONE:
Audio-Technica AT4051a
HEADPHONES:
Sony MDR-305
OTHER STUFF:
Dazzle SC Memory Module Reader
ZIO xD Memory Module Reader
After two marriages, and an equal number of divorces, along with several heart attacks, I decided I had enough of the "Big City Life"!
And that is how I ended-up here ... living a very quiet and private ... if not sessile ... existence.
Prior to my heart attacks, when I was young and healthy, I had other interests other than firearms and hunting, 4x4ing, photography, computers, audio and video.
For the 7 or so years I was living in Florida I became a very active S.C.U.B.A. diver. I am a registered P.A.D.I. open water, night and wreck diver.
When I moved to Montana permanently I decided that it was too much trouble to drive all over the place, so I could be seen in the "Big Sky" over Montana, tooling around in a Cessna 172.
Some short-lived interests have been coin collecting, leather work, gardening, and model airplane building (both plastic display models and control-line flying models.)
A few of my hunting buddies have tried to get me interested in fishing ... but that is a hopeless cause! I find it totally boring.
This is my first attempt at a website, so I hope that everything has worked as planned, and I'm sure that as time goes by, things will get neater and prettier.
Recently I took the plunge and added Message Forums to stevespages.com
There is no one specific area of interest, other than my interests. It has been moderately successful and usership is growing every day. I am proud that so far I have been able to totally ban all commercial and porn ads and messages, as well as ban those users who post them.
So ... things must be working out okay with my website ... since I am averaging over 3,300 users per day.
drop me some E-Mail...
steve@stevespages.com
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Several people have asked why I don't have any pictures of me on my pages ... well ... the answer is very simple ... I don't have any recent ones that are worth posting. But in order to satisfy the curious, I have scanned some old Polaroids which were taken by an 83-year-old lady who happens to be the wife of one of my hunting buddies.
Paul Abern is inside the capper, and as usual his wife, Carmen, is snapping away with her Polaroid
Seems that she can't decide as to take a picture of me or of the deer...
1973 ... Was it really THAT long ago?
Were you able to sleep well at night?
(WITH HONORS!!)
This one from Kindergarten
