Welcome to AutumnFrase.com.

Hello. Welcome to my personal web page. As you can see from the pictures I'm rapidly becoming an official "old codger." I was reminded of that recently at work.

I had to measure panels coming off the manufacturing line as part of a data-collection exercise. I had the data sheets on a clipboard, but I didn't have any place to set it where I could easily reach it. So I placed it on a crossmember under the conveyor that was running the panels past me.

I wanted measurements of the length of the panel on both sides, so I would take both measurements, attempt to remember both, and then squat down to write them on the data sheet. That was the equivalent of doing a deep knee bend every 30 to 40 seconds (depending on panel length).

This continued for well over an hour. I estmate I did around 130 squats during an hour and a half or so. The muscles at the front of my thighs weren't quite ready for such a workout, and for two days thereafter they ached considerably. The hardest activity was walking downstairs.

As you'll see as you browse this site, I have a wide array of interests. I piddle around at music (minored in it at college), I serve as a lay preacher at my local church, I enjoy working with and programming computers, I work a weekend shift at a 50,000 watt AM station in Little Rock, Some of the photos on this site I took myself, I make a little extra cash drawing house plans in my spare time, and I spent over seven years of my life as an elementary teacher (source of my masters' degree).

P. S. I'm one of those pointy-haired liberals you've been warned against. Reading any of the opinion articles could cause apoplectic fits to a conservative. You've been warned.

Click here to read about my recent industrial accident.