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47867 Tim_W_Theisen@s... 1998‑08‑11 Un-lurk and bio
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From:     Tim W Theisen @ SB_PHARM_RD
Date:     11-Aug-98 08:26:51 PM
Subject:  Un-lurk and bio

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GGs,

     I plan to attend my first tool auction this weekend (Hurchalla's) and
     thought it a good time to come above ground.

     My head is hung low before the porch in penance for two years of
     lurking (hopefully not too low as to be removed by a misdirected swipe
     with a #8). You see, back then in '96 I was a neuvo-Norm who was
     getting less and less satisfaction with the finger feasting electron
     eaters and, if the truth is to be told, the first attempts with hand
     tools, Buck Brothers planes from the local home center, were not going
     much better. In an act of desperation I turned to the great modern
     source of collective wisdom only to become further frustrated by the
     endless ranting over what t*bl*s*w is best for making bird houses.
     Just when things started looking bleak someone pointed out the OT List
     Server. Well it was daylight in the swamp after that, but I still
     didn't know jack about old tools or how to use them and with a rare
     occurrence of common sense decided to keep my mouth shut until a later
     date when useful contributions to the dialogue could be made.
          Here is the Bio part: Was raised on a dairy farm located about 50
     miles north of Green Bay, Wisconsin. We had a good assortment of OTs
     thanks to Grandpa but no one ever used them. I remember seeing several
     metal bench planes, hand powered grinders and an assortment of logging
     tools. Many hours were spent playing on the old rusting horse-drawn
     farm implements and cranking the grinders as fast as possible. The
     farm was sold almost 20 years ago, a few years after I had left for
     college. My parents moved two miles away and are still there. I left
     Wisconsin in 1985 for South Eastern Pennsylvania after accepting a
     position as a molecular biologist at a large pharmaceutical company
     not far from Valley Forge. I am married, with a son of age 3 and a
     two-month-old daughter. My current project is a period fireplace
     mantle using high OT content.



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