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I am a 50 year old "kid" who has done many different things but still isn't quite sure what she wants to be when she grows up. I was born and raised in Richfield, Minnesota, and graduated from Richfield High School in 1974. I've attended several colleges - Bemidji State University, Normandale Community College, the University of Minnesota Minneapolis Campus, North Hennepin Community College and the University of Minnesota Duluth Campus. I've worked at Embers Restaurant, Donaldson's department store (which was bought out by Carson Pirie Scott and then by Mervyns), Honeywell Defense Systems Division (now gone), Red Owl Stores (nowadays "Dead Owl" - a defunct grocery chain which was bought out by Super Value with most of the stores becoming Cub Foods stores - does this look like a trend here?), and at various Walgreens drugstores (still alive and kicking) in Edina, Eden Prairie, and downtown Minneapolis. Until the spring of 1996 when my Mom had a stroke, I worked part time on America Online. More recently I worked for Rosemount Inc. at the Chanhassen, MN facility as a Team Coordinator for the South Region in Customer Central until I was laid off along with about 40 other Rosemount employees in 1999. After that, I went to work in downtown Minneapolis for RecruitUSA - an Internet job and resume posting site. I found the 50-mile round trip commute and the stress level more than I cared to handle at this point in my life, though, so in October 1999 I took a position at Continental Machines (manufacturers of DoAll saws among other things) in Savage - lots closer to home. For a while I also worked part time at a Kwik Trip convenience store in Burnsville, but now I work two part time jobs, one at a company called Van Wagenen in Eden Prairie and the other at Superamerica. I also used to call Bingo at a local Catholic church, and I have occasionally done Website Design on the side. I had lived in Richfield, Minnesota (a first tier Minneapolis suburb) at my mom's house for ten years but in the summer of '97 I moved to a mobile home in Chaska, Minnesota (a half small town/half growing western suburb of Minneapolis) due to my mother's death in the fall of '96 and consequently, the long-dreaded selling of her house. Some friendly advice to all - don't ever move in the middle of July in Minnesota - especially when you're moving from an air conditioned house to a mobile home with no air conditioning! :/ Oh, and by the way - I am not "trailer trash" now ... I'm just "residentially challenged" according to an old friend of mine. ;-) My kids are my cats and my dog Livvie, a Miniature Dachshund. They're not spoiled or anything, really... ;-) I can do just about anything on the computer, but my favorites are photo imaging, MIDI sequencing, surfing the Web (of course!), and dabbling in VB as well as my latest obsessions - writing Web pages, learning CGI/Perl Scripting, and creating Web graphics. I access the Net through Sprint DSL. I also still use AOL - yes - America Online... the online service that everybody loves to hate. I have been an AOL user since the Q-Link days of the mid-1980's when I still had my Commodore 64, so it's almost like an "old friend" to me. I never was a "chatter", but I learned a lot about programming and computers in general on their message boards and software forums, and I used to work for them as a Tech Live Assistant. Old AOLers may remember me as TechLiveHN and then TLA MEW. My Website, deckernet.com, is a "virtual domain" server hosted by the Las Vegas based Web space provider, Internet Quality Services. I have full CGI/Perl capabilites, full control over my site's .htaccess settings (which I personally use for controlling access to certain pages and redirecting old page addresses to current ones when I decide to reorganize and move stuff around), and I have nearly unlimited file transfer - a "MUST" when you have a site that averages about 3,000 hits a day as this one does. The Woodshed started in 1994 as a learning project when I was working as a Tech Live Assistant for AOL, and we were asked to beta test their Web space. After a couple of years, it outgrew the space I had there so I moved the Shed and the Minnesota Page to the deckernet.com server. When I'm not on the computer, you'll usually find me golfing, boating (my roommate and I have a 16 ft SmokerCraft fish & ski boat with a 60 horse Merc on it), fishing, hunting (I'm a good shot, so don't mess with me! ;-}), camping, taking pictures, gardening, bowling, playing my Guitar and singing (folk music), playing my Clarinet, shopping, watching AEN, PBS, TLC or the Discovery Channel on TV, or working on my family's genealogy. One of my favorite things of late has been gardening - mainly in hanging baskets and pots. Maybe my black thumb was tranformed into my Mom's green thumb when she died. I like to think so, anyway. :-) I am an avid bowler with about a 165 average. I'm still looking for my first 600 series - so far 579 has been the best I can come up with. I also took up golfing a couple of years ago, and I absolutely love it! My handicap started out at 31 and it's down to 15 now, so I'm getting better. Still have a ways to go though... ;-) |
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| Graphics on this page were hand crafted from scratch and from other graphics by Martha Decker on a Dell 8300 using Corel Photo Paint and Paint Shop Pro. The page itself was created using Hot Dog Pro 7.03 for Windows. If you are interested in using any of my graphics, please send an email to the autoresponder Graphics@deckernet.com for permission. This page was developed on a computer running at 1280x1024 resolution at 65K colors. If you are running at a different resolution or color depth, things might not look as intended. I HIGHLY recommend that you run at least 65K colors. The Web will look dramatically different to you - I guarantee it! |
| The 1st photo of me was taken by a friend of mine in July 1996 at the White Pine Lake National Forest Campground off of the Caribou Trail (County Road 4) in the Superior National Forest near Lutsen, Minnesota. |
| The 2nd photo of me was taken by a friend of mine in September 1995 at the White Pine Campsite along the Crow Wing River near Nimrod, Minnesota. |
| The background tile on this page was created from a tile I found on the Corel Photo Paint Plus 5 CD. Click here to view it ir click here to view the JPEG version of it. |
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| Turn Around is a song I remember hearing in an old Kodak commercial back in the 60's. I have since sung the song at many weddings. The words start out "Where are you going my little one, little one?" It was always a real tear jerker... This arrangement was sequenced for Soundblaster AWE 32 by Martha Decker using Cakewalk Professional for Windows. It is in Standard MIDI Type 1 Format, and should work with any General Midi sequencer, however, unless you have a 16 bit sound card with wave table synthesis, it will most likely not sound too good. Windows Users: For a good Shareware MIDI helper application, check out MidiGate from PRS Corporation. |
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