Friends With Web Sites

Steve Finley is a long time amigo living near Washington, DC. Sometime renaissance man, Steve's interests range from arts like photography and music; sports like spelunking and God knows what else. We never get to actually see each other anymore, but he's good (much better than I am) at keeping in touch via Email.  Steve's gotten married this year, and he and Wendy are expecting their first child early in 1998.

 

The Nolan Family Home Page is a recent addition to cyberspace. Created by Chris Nolan (center), he has very impressively written his HTML code by hand (something that I promise you will never happen here), saving his money for some cool computer game.

Amazingly, Chris and his dad, Kevin, have figured out a way to combine the Grateful Dead, the Catholic church, the recently completed Olympic Summer Games and other stuff into one nicely produced site.

Chris's services are for hire, if you need some HTML code hammered out.

I just found long-time author and friend Richard Grant's page. It has recent essays and letters, along with the exciting news that is latest novel, Tex & Molly in the Afterlife, is now available! Richard, Charles Redmond and I used to meet frequently at the Four Provinces on Connecticut Ave., in Washington, DC to discuss 'stuff.'

Richard moved with slinky, blonde, writer-friend, Liz in 1988 or so and that was just about the last I had heard from him until I stumbled across him on the internet. At this point, Liz is out of the picture and Richard's living in his treehouse somewhere in Maine.

This picture is supposedly from his new novel.

His link is currenly down, but maybe it will be avaiable again at some point.  Here is his last known link:  http://users.aol.com/loqqi/

Charles Redmond has a  site which has traced his 1996 summer vacation riding the rails of VIA, the Canadian railroad. He updated it daily and you can see pictures and commentary online from their trip! It's impressive to see how he was able to provide new material from on the road.

Gray Shockley has just opened a Macintosh information site, which also has his biography! Gray was one of the first callers to Swizzle Stick, my BBS, which I started in 1986.

Friends Without Web Sites

Screw 'em. Or better yet, use Switchboard to track them down. If you haven't given Switchboard a try yet, please do, and make sure that your own information is updated!

Here are some friends that do have E-mail, though.

Curt Bollar -- My daddy. You can also reach my super Mom at this address.
Scott Bomson -- Scott was my roommate in Washington, from 1985 to 1989. We did lots of bike riding there along the C&O canal. About two years ago, he moved to Dallas and we got started on our biking again. Unfortunately for me, he's been scheduled to move back to Washington, so I will need to find a new biking partner.

Richard Cree -- We've known each other for years and still see each other several times a year. We usually wind up in the strangest places, meeting on business or just because. We did some serious stress to a rental car playing Streets of San Francisco. Richard came to my wedding and we have done a few weekend trips to Europe as well.

Rebecca Racosky -- We were friends in college, dated for awhile and wound up being friends again afterwards. She still lives in Washington.

Leesa Stephens -- My lovely wife. We met in Hong Kong in 1991 and got married in 1994. She has lived with me in Atlanta, San Francisco & Dallas. She's quite crafty and is able to make all sorts of things. I'm very impressed by her artistic ability. She's also loves dogs and does a bit of gardening.
Chris Watt -- Chris used to work with me at Marriott, but now he's gone off to another company. He came to my wedding in Australia, and has traveled several times with me. We're probably going to go skiing together in 1998.

And finally, here are some friends that somehow warranted a mention on these pages, but don't have an E-mail address that I know about.

Bill Codus -- We used to work together in Marriott, but now we're in separate parts of the company. Bill and I have done a few trips together and have always had a good time. Bill is a serious Washington Redskins fan and currently lives near San Francisco.

Tim Suich -- Tim and I travel frequently together. We've been to Australia three times together and to South America once. We met when I lived in Washington and have kept in close contact since. He's finally found a mate, and I look forward to being at his wedding.
James Utt -- A close high school friend. James lived in Washington for awhile, but got married and moved to Michigan. He's divorced now and has moved back to Florida.  Wish I had spoken with him recently.