Professional Information/ BIO

I was born in a log cabin in.....waitaminnit, wrong story. Okay, I'm from south Texas, Uvalde to be exact., so I am prone to talk with a um, slight accent.    Mah forbears arrived and settled between St. Augustine and Nacogdoches around 1820 (G.G.Grandfather John J. Simpson), and my GGrandfather Alberta A. Nelson of Massachusetts arrived in 1836 in Nacogdoches (became Mayor), and have settled in various parts of Texas since then. I've lived in San Antone, Dallas, Round Rock, Uvalde, Killeen, and Austin since college, and find the hill country to be nearly perfect for my lifestyle, so we have built  a nice home in Lago Vista, 18 miles from downtown Austin.  Kind of like having yore cake, and french fries too.

I grew up in a real Rexall Drug Store in Uvalde, complete with soda fountain and small-town benefits. Somehow I remained sane and gradjiated (there's that Texan accent agin) High School in 73'. I stayed in Uvalde for a couple of years, attended a junior college, and got most of my pharmacy pre-requisites out of the way.   I also got a first degree brown belt in TaeKwanDo Karate and in Kodokan Judo from sensei Lonnie Green, largely as self-defense from all of the republicans that I matriculated with. (Enrollment was about 1000 people: 999 rednecks and me). Somehow I was able to graduate from the University of Texas in 1978 from the UT College of Pharmacy with a B.S. (seemed a fitting term, somehow). I spent my last year in San Antone at the UT Health Science Center where I received excellent clinical training as a hospital pharmacist.

I have practiced pharmacy in independents, chain stores, apothecary, large hospitals (>600 beds) and small hospitals (<100 beds). Also directed the services for a small hospital for 4 years, and learned to design databases and build/program computers in my spare time. Co-authored a dynamic comprehensive pharmacy management system called Rx-Link , using DataEase, a 4th-generation relational RAD tool (See Periwinkle's page for DataEase info). RxLink is perhaps the largest PC-based computer tool for running a hospital pharmacy, in terms of reports and features.  I remain a consultant for DataEase applications today.

I currently provide custom programming solutions and training in PC operations. I've logged more than 1.8 million miles with American Airlines, am a life-time gold member with platinum membership in AA, Marriott Marquis Platinum, gold standing with Hurts, er, Hertz., traveling to hospitals around the YewEssHay and Canada. I've personally trained pharmacists in more than 100 hospitals and analyzed pharmacy practices in those hospitals in order to customize their softwares. If you have a computer problem I can prolly hep.

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Topics of Relation:
Eagle Scout/Bronze Palm
Alumnus of Colorado Outward Bound, C-92 (If you have done COB, I'd love to hear from you!)
Hitchhiked Europe/exchange student to Dalarna, Sweden - 1972 at 17 years age
Hitchhiked YewEss, 1973
Certified Scuba OpenWater, 1974 - preference for Roatan and SABA (1998)- CocoView Rules!
Single-engine rating, 1971, ultra-light pilot since 1984 (Quicksilver MX)
Extraneous interests (on my list of things to get better at) include: windsurfing, hang-gliding(parapente, actually, so if you know of some good page URLs, let me know), home automation (a good page to start with), alpine downhill skiing, jetskiing, and of course, basket weaving).
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