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Enriquito · 01-08-2011, 08:28 AM

Hello!
My name is Enrique F. Bird, am 60, retired, born in Chicago, where I lived all of 3 weeks. My parents were both graduate students at the University of Chicago and got married there, then returned home with my older sister and myself to San Juan, Puerto Rico. And proceeded to have 6 more girls and just 2 more boy - yes, we are a family of 10 siblings! I studied Humanities, majoring in English literature then proceeded to spend my life working in computer systems in programming, system analysis, and systems engineering for over 30 years. I was also involved in chess and was elected to the Puerto Rico Chess Federation Hall of Fame in December, 2007. I have been happily married for 32 years to my wife Carmen and we have 3 sons, Enrique, who is 30 and works in auditing, Víctor, 28, studied business management and plays volleyball profesionally, and Jorge, 27, who is a recently minted lawyer. No grandchildren yet, alas, as all 3 of them live at home with us.
Books have been a passion of mine for almost 50 years, and classical detective fiction my favorite. I have around 20,000 to 30,000 books at home, the one major area of dissension between Carmen and I. Apart from mysteries, there are lots of chess books, many sport books (especially baseball), history, classics, World War II, poetry, computers and information technology, and a big chunk of Christian books of various types, with my personal beliefs refelcted in theological books on calvinism. And there are about 3,000 - 4,000 thousand old American comic books until the 1990s, mostly from the 1970s and 1980s, with a lot from the 1960s. And I am sure there are more categories not listed here. One thing that you will not, or hardly find: science books.
I got my Kindle, the 3G + WiFi model, as a Christmas gift and have enjoyed it a lot. A particular treat to me has been finding so many Maurice Leblanc/Arsene Lupin titles available.
Best regards,
Enrique F. Bird

01-08-2011, 08:28 AM	#1
Enriquito Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Amazon Kindle	Introduction and greetins from San Juan, Puerto Rico Hello! My name is Enrique F. Bird, am 60, retired, born in Chicago, where I lived all of 3 weeks. My parents were both graduate students at the University of Chicago and got married there, then returned home with my older sister and myself to San Juan, Puerto Rico. And proceeded to have 6 more girls and just 2 more boy - yes, we are a family of 10 siblings! I studied Humanities, majoring in English literature then proceeded to spend my life working in computer systems in programming, system analysis, and systems engineering for over 30 years. I was also involved in chess and was elected to the Puerto Rico Chess Federation Hall of Fame in December, 2007. I have been happily married for 32 years to my wife Carmen and we have 3 sons, Enrique, who is 30 and works in auditing, Víctor, 28, studied business management and plays volleyball profesionally, and Jorge, 27, who is a recently minted lawyer. No grandchildren yet, alas, as all 3 of them live at home with us. Books have been a passion of mine for almost 50 years, and classical detective fiction my favorite. I have around 20,000 to 30,000 books at home, the one major area of dissension between Carmen and I. Apart from mysteries, there are lots of chess books, many sport books (especially baseball), history, classics, World War II, poetry, computers and information technology, and a big chunk of Christian books of various types, with my personal beliefs refelcted in theological books on calvinism. And there are about 3,000 - 4,000 thousand old American comic books until the 1990s, mostly from the 1970s and 1980s, with a lot from the 1960s. And I am sure there are more categories not listed here. One thing that you will not, or hardly find: science books. I got my Kindle, the 3G + WiFi model, as a Christmas gift and have enjoyed it a lot. A particular treat to me has been finding so many Maurice Leblanc/Arsene Lupin titles available. Best regards, Enrique F. Bird