I guess that the best - and fastest - way to really get to know me is by discovering what I like. So here goes . . .

• Family My mother, Nellie Cannon, and my aunt, Mary Gabbard, used to live with me, but they are in heaven with the Lord now. I was blessed by having such a wonderful mother and aunt. This was my Mother
  

  
  and this was my aunt.
  
  
  

• Reading I'm an avid reader. Some of my favorite authors are Frank Peretti, C. S. Lewis, Hal Lindsey, and Larry Burkett. In nonfiction, I like Bible prophecy books, apologetics, philosophy, psychology, and computer books. In fiction books, I like mysteries and suspense thrillers.
  
  

• Computers and the Internet My job is computer programming, but it is also my hobby.  I love to constantly learn to do new and more advanced things with computers.  I used to serve as webservant for Hickory Community Chapel's web site, and I thoroughly enjoy doing web design.
  
  

• Swimming I swim for my health and to relieve stress, but it's also something I really enjoy doing.  I belong to a local athletic club, and I swim in their indoor pool.  It makes me feel like I'm rich, especially when I go sit in the hot tub afterwards!
  
  

• Travel I enjoy traveling, when I have the time and money. I especially love the Blue Ridge Mountains, particularly up around Asheville, North Carolina.
  
  

• Pets
  I have a precious little cat named (appropriately) Precious, whom I adopted from the humane society. He was born in January, 2002, and I adopted him when he was just over a year old, in February, 2003. We've been together ever since. He is a male brown, black, and silver mixed tabby with a white belly and white legs. He's a small cat. When I got him, he weighed about seven and a half pounds, and the vet says he will probably never weigh more than about nine pounds. You sure can't tell now that he was ever an orphan-- he's fat and spoiled rotten now! But that's okay -- he is the best natured, cutest, most affectionate cat I've ever known! When he wants attention, he will roll over on his back, draw his little front paws up under his chin like he is begging, turn his head sideways, and look up at me with those big, bright, green eyes of his! SOOOO cute! And he loves to get up on my computer desk, turn over on his back in my arms, and have me hold him just like a human baby and rub his belly! And you should see how high he can jump up in the air and how he turns flips in the air when he is playing! He is just ... well ... precious!