day job?

Well, that's true about manufactoring jobs going overseas. But having lived in Calfornia, most of the manufactoring blue collar workers were mainly hispanic. So seeing the Rosanne show and seeing alot of nonhispanic whites do manufactoring jobs was strange. In other parts of the US, things are like they were 20 years ago.

Philosopher.

Interesting name Horace, he was a writer during the reign of Augustus. I never heard that he was much into philosophy. Cicero I know wrote a little about the philsophers of his age mainly before Horace's time.

I've always been curious what everyone does when they aren't in Speedos! I'm a College Professor...I teach in a College of Pharmacy...my specialty area is drugs for psychiatric illness. :) Sally

Corporate risk manager for a healthcare facility.

Bookseller. I own my own general bookstore, new books only; specializations in scifi/fantasy, mysteries & childrens.

Thanks, Bert. Mo Chambers is no longer coaching, according to the MVM website (maybe she coaches privately now?). Walnut Creek is a bit of a haul for me. Originally posted by Bert Bergen Mo Chambers, Mountain View Masters Kerry O'Brien, Walnut Creek Masters

Horace, here are a couple that I have used, and are very close to you: Tim Sheeper, Menlo Masters Tom McCrae, SOLO swim club They both have a small number of reliable stroke coaches that they may refer you to. but there are so many other swim programs in the area, look for links at http://www.pacificmasters.org , check the pacific USS site, also available as a link from the pacific masters site.

Good for you! Yup, he was a sex-crazed poet. Philosophers don't as often seem to have been sex-crazed. (I'm new-ish here, and sheepish about posting a new thread just to get me-specific advice, so I'll sneak it in here: Can anyone recommend a stroke-coach for a lousy but eager swimmer in the Stanford or San Francisco area? Thanks!)

Peter are you familar with the SCA-Society for crative anachorism. They are in the tourment period and fight with wooden swords to actual scale. I was involved with them about 20 years ago. Anyway, they are some of the biggest consumers of the sci-fi/fantasy. I have not read a sci-fi fantasy books in years.