Retired. I worked with computers the majority of my career as an Operator,Tele Comm Analyst, and with CAD ( Computer Aided Design). I have been retired as of 2005. I do research in my spare time on the early Southern New Jersey glass industry, where the art of blowing glass by hand began in America. I also collect and study items from the F4 Phantom II fighter aircraft. I was a mechanic on the environmental systems on this plane in SEA at Ubon RTAFB,Thailand in 1969-70. I have a functioning Ejection Seat (minus rocket) out of a F4D, that I am currently working on.
In my spare time when the weather is cooler or cold preferred, I spend some time working with glass in the Southern New Jersey town of Clayton. I made a lot of Lilypad flowers at Gilson & Sons Glassworks before they closed down and moved to Virginia. I now rent studio time at The New Fislerville Glassworks in Clayton. I have sixteen cast iron moulds from the old Clevenger Brothers Glassworks and Anchor Hocking Co. that I make glass bottles from. The glass pot is usually 2000 deg. while the anealing oven is around 900 deg. You can check out the glass that I have for sale at my web store Elmer Island Glass at
