Dwight DeBacker:  

What a long strange trip it's been... Hi y'all... I never do this, but I will actually write something about myself that isn't a resume. It's been years since I've written one of those, and I rarely post something personal on the Internet. It may take a few installments and a few re-writes like I had to do in English class. I always admired those who could think things through and write it the first time in ink without a scratch-out. Remember, that was before word processing. <grin> Today, it's May 3rd, 2011, I'm in Anchorage the day after they got Bin Laden and my home is in New Zealand. So as a fast catch-up, between graduating early from Spring Branch in '75 and today, I'm approaching 3 million miles traveled and still have a couple of continents that I haven't worked or played on. My favorite thing to do is to find someplace enjoyable and charter a boat. In that way, I can sail it wherever I can/want to and get to give it back when I'm done for somebody else to maintain. After Rice, I owned and restored the 1st production fiberglass sailboat ever built... a 1951 Longhorn built by Cape Cod Boatbuilders... and raced it with friends from the rest of the old Southwest Conference schools. OK, enough about sailing or this will get boring quickly, if not already. I did race in the 1st US pro-circuit and my company at the time sponsored our winning boat/team. "Ride the Wave" was our tag line at COMDEX that year when we unveiled the 1st portable imaging (paperless)...Expand for more