Sparky a true native of Bellingham, Washington and a Navy Viet Nam veteran. Father of one child, Suzie, and lives on 5 rural acres with many distractions. Over the years has had many hobbies including two-way communications with the Space Shuttle, gold panning, gardening, wind and solar power generation, holds a Commercial Pilots license, an Extra Class Amateur Radio operators license and was ordained in 2002. For many years he was self employed in the General Contraction home repair business. More recently held a Vice Presidents position at a local credit union. Retired in 2004 and is now collecting AOL CDs as a hobby.