After I retired I decided to get my ham radio license. Read more about my Ham Radio experiences and proejcts at n2vlv.net.

My first new car was a 1981 SAAB 900 (903M to be exact). That was a fun car, but NY salt took it’s toll.

When my parents passed we inherited their 1985 Volvo 245 DL which we drove for serval years and really enjoyed. We didn’t drive it in the winter because that was the year before they started galvanizing the body and it would have rusted out quickly.

After that we were pretty hooked on Volvos and have had quite a few:

• 1985 Volvo 245 DL (blue)
• 1998 Volvo XC70 AWD (blue)
• 1998 Volvo V70 GL (green)
• 2004 Volvo V70 AWD (grey)
• 1993 Volvo 940 (gold)
• 2009 Volvo V50 T5 AWD R-Design (blue)
• 2011 Volvo XC70 3.2 AWD (silver)
• 2015 Volvo XC70 T6 AWD (black) - With Polestar tune
• 2000 Volvo S70 manual (green)
• 1999 Volvo S70
• 2006 Volvo V50 2.5 (silver)
• 2008 Volvo S60 AWD (Blue)
• 1981 Volvo 245 GLT (Silver)
• 1959 Volvo PV544 (Undergoing Restoration)

I’m currently the president of the Central New York Chapter of the Volvo Club of America.

We host an annual European Car show in June at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds.

I love working on a variety of software peojects. So much that it rates it’s own category

In the summer of 2013 my youngest son expressed interest in joining a local FIRST LEGO League team. I tagged along to see what it was about and if I could help. I volunteered to be an assistant coach, but ended up being the lead coach for the Bots of the Round Table in the Nature’s Fury challenge and having a blast. The next year I coached the Hacker Catz in the World Class challenge. In 2015 I was back with the Bots of the Round Table for the Trash Trek challenge. For the Animal Allies challenge I was again with the Bots of the Round Table.

At the end of 2014 I ran into the lead mentor for the Trumansburg FIRST Robotics Competition team at a party and asked if I could help. He gratefully accepted and I obtained clearance to be an advisor at the Trumansburg High School and started coming to the practices for the Trumansburg Robot Raiders (FRC 5254) while they prepared for the Recycle Rush challenge. Robots, power tools and computers, how could I resist? It was quite a ride, this second year team made it to the finals at the Tech Valley and Finger Lakes regionals and was invited to the World Championships in St Louis. The next year the team rebranded as FRC5254: HYPE (Helping Youth Persue Excellence) and competed in the FIRST Stronghold challenge. The results were similar, we made it to the finals at the Tech Valley regional and won an award, the semi-Finals at the Finger Lakes Regional and won an award there too, and made it to the semi-finals at the World Championships. In 2017 the challenge will be Steampunk and we are looking forward to what that will bring.

During my first season I was asked to join the board of Trumansburg Robotics, Inc a NYS approved Educational charity being created to bring the FIRST experience to the Trumansburg, NY area. As secretary I’ve helped drive the adoption of the by-laws, conflict of interest policy and other documentations and obtain 501(c)(3) non-profit status.