We live in the Denver area, and love it. Having been here a decade or so (Dave arrived in December 1994, Margie the following April), we practically qualify as old-timers. We both moved here from California (before all you Colorado natives start throwing rocks, Dave was transferred by my company — though willingly). Dave did live up in Fort Collins, CO, for about nine months during his sophomore year of high school, which should count for something, too.

Anyway, both our families and many of our friends are still back on "the Coast," but we've made friends locally and online, so our existence is not terminally grim. We like entertaining, and do so frequently.

Dave works as an IT manager of various things (site operations, then documentation services, then small application development) for a multi-national engineering firm. Margie works as a clinical analyst/biostatistician for a great metropolitan (regional) non-profit HMO (which regularly gets ranked in the top ten in the nation), fighting for truth, justice, and a telling doctors how to practice medicine.

Dave and Margie have known each other since college, which is way too many years ago, though it took them another decade to get married (career and romance paths being what they are). Margie's a great cook, a wonderful hostess and conversationalist, and an all-around terrific person to hang out with. She's keen, and Dave counts his blessings every night when he goes to sleep beside her.)

Our cats, Mist Kitty and Indy Kitty (both was-he's), provide fun company, when they're not busy hissing at each other. Both are strays (and among the few theological certainties we have is that there is a special circle in Hell for folks who abandon pets. But I digress). Dave and Margie both grew up with dogs in the household, but cats fit our lifestyle better right now (and we have dogs-by-proxy, anyway).

We both have pretty nifty families. Dave's folks come out and visited a couple of times every year. Margie's folks visit a few times a year, too, which is usually a time for home improvement projects.

We do have some fine nephews, though, on both sides of the family. Pale reflections of the glory that is our daughter, but, hey, they're pretty good kids.

For Denverites, we are not really outdoorsy people, though we do seem to have found ourselves up in the mountains over the years. We do enjoy camping, if the conditions are okay. Once a year we go on a big family-and-friends camping trip back in California, with about 60-80 people, eating like kings and thoroughly enjoying ourselves.

Over the last few years, we've become active in our local Episcopal Church. Given that Episcopalians run the gamut from out-conservativing the Pope to out-liberaling the average Unitarian-Universalist, it's a good fit for us.

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