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On my birthday, my sister gets me a "Merlin the Magician" figurine. I collect that kind of stuff because of CHEXCALIBUR™, the new game. That is my son to my right, fired up on my birthday. Jay is usually taller than that.

I like Spring, Summer, and Fall a lot better than Winter...

Beach weather! Fishing weather! Golf weather! Frisbee weather!

Sitting on the porch weather! Getting outdoors weather!

Here I am (below) at our Christmas party. My Mom got me a Tampa Bay Buccaneers hat and a designer pair of winter gloves. They were super warm, the warmest gloves I've ever had.

I do like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a lot better now that they have Jon Gruden (Chucky) as a Head Coach. You know Chucky is from Penn High School (Mishawaka, IN) near Notre Dame. There was talk of Chucky coaching at Notre Dame. How 'bout them Irish and that new coach. I think Coach Tyrone Willingham will be around at Notre Dame for a long long time.

Good Luck Fighting Irish !

Elkhart Truth pix by Arden Erickson

Front page picture is from the Elkhart Truth Newspaper May 15, 2000. My father Ronnie, my son Jay, and myself headline the front page of the Elkhart Truth Newspaper (Introduction). We all three were excited that day, week, month, year...... still are. The CHEXCALIBUR™ shirts were supplied by Martin Marketing Specialities.

Some Things I Like To Do...

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......Man, that was a heck of a shot !.......

I love to golf. I think it is a great relaxing sport, if you don't let it get to you.

I'm not any good so it doesn't do me any good to get mad.

I love to go to the beach to play frisbee, get a suntan, and/or just hang out

and watch the pretty women. That's me in the back...... LoL !

I love to play Table Tennis (Ping Pong).

I was pretty good in my younger days. Indiana State Open Junior

Champion of Indiana at age 17. Class D Men's State Champion

of Indiana at age 19. I played at the Elkhart TT club for 4 years.

Gary Gebert and I took second place

for Doubles in a National Scholastic Tournament. We also took a

4 man team from Elkhart Central High School and placed 2nd in

Class D Team U.S. National Championships. In this tournament, back in the

70's, we played Danny Seemiller and his brother...... Danny Seemiller later on

became U.S. National Champion for consecutive years. I believe that this

same Danny Seemiller is now involved in the South Bend Table Tennis Club.

We played many other smaller tournaments. It was a great experience. We

played twice at the Cobo Hall Arena in Detroit, Michigan.

I used to be consumed by Table Tennis and I loved it,

playing at least 3 times or more a week for over 3 years.

I used to be pretty good in Pool.

I was pretty good in my younger days. To be good in pool

you need to play a lot.

I Iove to go fishing. To me it is a relaxing sport like golf.

Just take your sweet time and no pressure.

That's my 5 pound Large Mouth Bass on my right. Tom Arendt caught the little one. I don't smoke, Tom dared me to put a cigarette in my mouth.

I love to travel. My favorite places to go are Las Vegas and Cancun Mexico.

Once when I was in Las Vegas, my Dad and Mom came out to see me. We had our picture taken at the HorseShoe Casino in front of the Million Dollar HorseShoe. There is $1,000,000 encased in glass in the middle of the horseshoe. I believe all of the bills are $10,000 denominations, which they quit making a long time ago.

Love that white sand and the Cancun Sunshine......

My brother Tom and I have been to Cancun twice.

Just love to have fun with my friends and make everybody laugh.

I used to get pretty creative around Halloween. The button in the center of my turbin says: "Reunite The Beatles" I was standing at the door at this big Halloween Party (local TV station was there) handing out Marathon Oil Credit Card Applications (thanks to Donny Miller's Dad, Eddie's Pierre Moran Marathon). I was a rich Arab Oil Shiek. I took first place for best costume and nobody knew who I was until I let on. My Mom had sewn the robe for me, note the Marathon Oil patch.

Just like the song for this page... Styx ..."Too Much Time On My Hands".

One of my favorite past times is teaching CHEXCALIBUR™ to new players, whether it's at Cleveland Elementary School or our CHEXCALIBUR™ Game Club at Cleveland Township Fire Station #2. I love to watch their reaction to this fantastic new strategy battle game.

Here I am showing Gary Evick some maneuvers in this amazing strategy battle game, while he plays Lindsey at Cleveland Fire Station. Gary Evick bought a Collecter's Limited Edition Gameboard after playing CHEXCALIBUR™ only one time.

Insert Rush Limbaugh Pix and story.

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Below are my two favorite nieces.

I loved being Uncle Billy to my nieces and nephews.

Very easy for me to get down to their level.

Look at little Kourtney, she is watching her big sister Kylea for how to wave to the camera. I use to spend a lot of time with them, but now they are all grown up...... teenagers.

Below are my two favorite nephews...

Once I got to feed DJ right before I took off for Las Vegas.

As you can see he wasn't very old......then. DJ is Kylea

and Kourtney's little brother.

Here is Kris, my other nephew. He is seen here sporting a Seven-O-Seven sweatshirt that was produced by "Martin Marketing Specialities" in Elkhart Indiana. Brad Martin and Martin Marketing Specialities makes all of the shirts and stuff for CHEXCALIBUR™. My brother Tom and I use to run a Van Conversion Company called 7-0-7 Van Conversions. Brad Martin also made all of our 7-0-7 promotional specialities. Kourtney is also seen sitting on the chair.

Here are some pictures of my favorite kid, my own son Jay.