Ron's Retirement Watch:  It's Here!!!!
My final "live class was 4/27/05.....I will still be teaching a few courses for the next
few years, but all will be online.  That means I now work 100% at home, and work
when I feel like it, and that's a pretty good definition of retirement.

FAVE COLOR: what the design types call earthtones

FOOD:  Prefer Asian food that is vegetarian, such as Chinese and Thai dishes.
Also love Spanish tapas meals.

HOBBIES: Collecting TV shows, playing piano and writing songs, watching tv sports, especially the Chicago Bears, being diabetic, retirement planning and cycling.

DISLIKES: Liberals, neighbors, morons, the lack of civility in modern society, political correctness, the way most people dress, small children, dogs that chase cyclists, people who own dogs that chase cyclists, the insane custom of shooting off fireworks

FAVE WRITERS: Rod Serling, Joe Posnanski, Jason Whitlock, Jonathon Clements, Diane Stafford

BEST BOOKS READ:  Virtue of Selfishness, by Ayn Rand;  Walden, by H.D. Thoreau,
A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by B.G. Malkiel

FAVE CLOTHES: double breasted suits, french cuff shirts with nice cuff links

TV SHOWS: Twilight Zone, Naked City, Eastside Westside, Route 66, Fugitive, Peter Gunn

FAVE 45's: Zombies: “She’s Not There” ; Electric Prunes “I Had Too Much to Dream” Standells: “Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White”, Chocolate Watchband: “Are You Gonna Be There?”  Hollies: "Bus Stop"  Airplane:  "Somebody to Love", Procul Harem "Whiter Shade of Pale".

FAVE GROUPS: Zombies, Kinks, Hollies, Nazz, Yardbirds, Chesterfield Kings, Standells, Turtles

FEMALE VOCALIST: Grace Slick, Carole King, Carly Simon, Anita O’Day, Diana Krall

MALE VOCALIST: Nat King Cole, Righteous Brothers, Billy Joel, Colin Blunstone,

FAVE MUSICIANS: Bela Fleck, Rod Argent, Yo-Yo Ma, Diana Krall, Paul Desmond,  Gerry Mulligan, Joe Pass, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Lester Young, Ray Davies.

MOVIES: Godfather trilogy, James Bond movies with Connery and Moore

ACTORS: David Janssen, Paul Burke, Charles McGraw, Don Gordon, George C. Scott

ACTRESSES: Diane McBain, Vera Miles, Beverly Garland, Lois Nettleton, Joan Hackett, Dorothy Provine, Susan Oliver, Olivia de Havilland, Anne Francis

SPORTS: NFL football (Go Bears!), LPGA golf (Go Annika!), NHL hockey
 

FAX n' INFO:

Live on 35 acres of Kansas woods and prairie with wife Sara and cat Mrs. Muir.
Wildlife includes deers, raccoons, foxes, bobcats, possums, birds, badgers, and me.

Author of 4 books and 32 articles on psych stuff, but far more interested these days in research on the pop culture of the 60s, especially the tv.

Have two  tanks of African Cichlids, mainly Julidochromis, Brichardi, and some miscellaneous Haplochromis.  Oldest fish is a synodontis catfish (going on 15) .

Have a Technics electronic keyboard and a Guild D30 guitar and enjoy being a musical wannabe. Like to write songs too. Not much talent, but find it very enjoyable as a hobby.

Type II diabetic who has learned a lot about the disease and about the human body since contracting the disease.

Wannabe cyclist who does not ride especially fast or especially long, but enjoys hopping on the Trek Navigator bike and trying