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OK, your curiosity got the better of you and you decided you simply HAD to know more about this charming fellow named Glenn. Well, here you go. It's time to get up close and personal. Besides being the creative force behind much of the Gehlke Family Home Page, I am currently a copy editor for a large California Bay Area newspaper chain. It is there I toil nights so that I can use my daylight hours in pursuit of my myriad other activities including this one, making the Internet a more entertaining if not more informative place. I have lived and worked all my life in the Bay Area. I grew up in Hayward, where I attended Sunset High School and the California State University system. Aside from my bachelor's degree in communications, the most useful thing I got out of college life was meeting my future wife, Roni. We have been happily married since 1988. In 1994, we brought our son Benjamin into the world. We now live in Oakley (which is about as fringe Bay Area as one can get) with our cats, turtle and a mortgage.

So there you have it, more than you probably ever wanted or needed to know. I hope you'll enjoy taking a look at my fun facts and checking out some of my favorite links below. Thank you for visiting.

Fun Facts
Name Glenn A. Gehlke
Date of Birth July 1, 1965
Hometown San Francisco, California
Favorite Quote We've got two lives: One we're given and the other one we make
Favorite Music/Musician Rock, Country/Dave Edmunds, Mary Chapin Carpenter
Favorite Songs Sabre Dance (Dave Edmunds & Love Sculpture)
Halley Came to Jackson (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
No Stranger—Chapter 8 (Saga)
Favorite Colors Red and Blue
Favorite Holiday Fourth of July
Favorite Food Italian sausage sandwiches
Favorite Dessert Raspberry cheesecake
Favorite Beverage Arizona lemon iced tea
Favorite TV Shows CNN Headline News
NASCAR Nextel Cup races
Monday Night Football
Favorite Cartoons Powerpuff Girls
Looney Tunes
Favorite Comic Dilbert
Favorite Actors Michael J. Fox
Mary Steenbergen
Helen Hunt
Favorite Restaurant Hometown Buffet
Favorite Childhood Toys Hotwheels
Legos
Favorite Grown-up Toy Computers
Hobbies Computers
Writing
Photography
Collecting music
Favorite Movies Koyaanisqatsi (simply the greatest film ever made)
Back to the Future trilogy
Favorite Author Tami Hoag
Associated Press
Favorite Day of the Week Sunday
Favorite Vacation Destination Small towns, quiet backroads and wide open spaces
Favorite Tourist Spot Old Town Sacramento
Favorite City Sacramento
Favorite Animals Mourning doves
Cats
Least Favorite Animal Ants
Scorpions (Been stung by one. It wasn't fun.)
Favorite Sports NASCAR auto racing
NFL football
Favorite NASCAR Drivers Jeff Gordon
Dale Jarrett
Kevin Harvick
Ryan Newman
Tony Stewart
Favorite Vehicle Dirt modified race cars
3 Things I Like Wind farms
Long walks on the Marsh Creek Trail
Dirt racing at the Antioch Speedway
3 Things that Bug Me Early mornings
Bad drivers
Wasted food, wasted water, wasted electricity, wasted anything.

Links to sites of significance to me
The Gehlke Family Home Page — You've probably already been there if you got here. It's where you can learn more about me and my family.

Milepost 1147.2 — My tribute to trains, particularly the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway in northern California.

Oakley.now — A site I helped create with information about Oakley, California.

Gehlke Bros. Football — This is the site I run with my brother, Sean, five months out of the year. We are totally nuts when it comes to football season.

gNA$hCAR Notes — A blog I compile during NASCAR season predicting the race outcomes and commenting on the races.

 NASCAR — Home of all my auto racing heroes and perhaps yours as well.

EasyNews — If you're into Usenet newsgroups then you need these guys.

Gracenote's CDDB music search — Excellent search function to find virtually any CD/artist/song in existence.

Mary Chapin Carpenter — This fan site by Cam Tichenor is exhaustively thorough in its coverage of all things related to this excellent singer and songwriter.

Antioch Speedway — Our local dirt track, where the racing action is hot and heavy every Saturday night mid March through early October.

The Dirt Forum — Discussion board for everything related to dirt track auto racing.

NaNoWriMo — Home page for National Novel Writing Month, which has inspired my writing efforts since 2001.

Trainorders — A great place to learn about and discuss your favorite railroads.

Lauritzen Yacht Harbor — This marina, located near my home in Oakley, California, has a live Web cam with splendid views of the Delta. Love those sunsets.

eBay — Not that these guys need any free plugs, but it is where I find a lot of great collectibles.

Google — My search engine of choice these days.
This page was last updated Wednesday, December 22, 2004 at 2:12:37 AM