Old-time favs; Hunt for Red October, Independence Day (love that 'Welcome to Earth' scene LOL)

Grew up with classical music in the time of the Beatles; now into Alternative and oldies (that's the 30s and 40s music folks) - if I can remember it, it's not really an oldie! Ha!


Newsflash: getting into Country like Garth Brooks' The Thunder Rolls & Independence Day (Martina McBride). Never thought that would happen LOL

Mysteries (especially historical ones) and conspiracies on Audiobooks!
Nelson DeMille
Dean Koontz
Robert Littell
Ellis Peters
Michael Connelly
Michael Crichton
Janet Evanovich
Lisa Scottoline
Sue Grafton
Patricia Cornwell
fav books: Timeline, Cathedral Builders, First Man in Rome

the cooler colors but sometimes the warm ones!

Chinese / Italian (not together)

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Still working on my photo site at http://balkophoto.com/. Lots of images to sort through. Dumping some, re-doing many, and adding new ones.
Hey - I finally won a the Blue Ribbon at DPChallenge my my Light on White entry!!
http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=768910

Another Baby Boomer here...born in Canada, grew up in New Jersey, lived in New Hampshire, the Kansas, and now in the High Desert of New Mexico.

Am currently re-establishing my Canadian citizen ship and intend to keep dual citizenship. Might need to move to Canada some day!

I love creating through photography (Balko Photo) plus I sell some at Balko DPC Store and have some images up at Alamy (stock images) - also into genealogy Zeitler Web -- traced that Zeitler line into the 1500s!! ... and researching mtDNA. I moved the DNA files into ZeitlerWeb. My love of history and cultural attitudes toward death are reflected in Crossing the River Styx and I love Winning Sweepstakes!...and yes one ranting, raving, kvetching site called Gryffn. That is a girl you know - the winged griffins are female! Yeah!
I got the blog section up. All that hot air had to go somewhere! Gryffn Musings and Observation, Rants and Raves, Gripes and Grumblings, Opinion and Editorials, and just plain kvetching.

Still researching in Bavaria, Transylvania, and current Ukraine - would love to meet someone in the Ukraine to help me search the Stanislawsky line! Then there are those mysterious missing Stanislawskys who arrived in NYC and disappeared! Also some missing Wintoniaks from PA.

A few months ago, I moved in with my mother and it has been difficult, but things are the way they are.

My son, the Economist, is working for the State of Kansas, regulating the Electric company :)

Astronomy, History Channel, the Internet and techy stuff, gadgets, all animals (even mythological ones like Gryffns! (misspelling intentional - only version I could get in a .com). I love Hawaii, oceans, lakes, mountains, photography, and winning Sweepstakes! And the sciences - vulcanology, geology, archeology - all those *ologys LOL

selfishness, stupidity, hypocrisy, political correctness, those who have no Common Sense, and "those who refuse to see" the truth and reality and rather live in their illusory bubble

photography, photography, photography, genealogy, genetic genealogy - yup, the DNA stuff, computers, electronics, painting, travel, web design and websites and websites and websites:
Gimme Sweeps! / Zeitler Web / Native USA / Crossing The River Styx / Balko Photo / Haplogroup I / Classic Film Stars / German Tribes.Org