A site for writing and amusement
Steve was in his prime from about age 43 to 49. My fastest 10K was when I was 46, about 48 minutes. I could bench press 205 lbs when I was 49. Shortly afterward, I got some tendinitis and had to drop bench press weight down to 110 lbs. Here’s a typical week when I […]
Steve worked as an account manager at IBM in 2006. We landed a services contract for a multinational corporation supporting their business-to-business transactions in ordering goods for 4,000 companies in the US and 5,000 in Europe. We implemented 65 powerful server computers and a sophisticated front-end network to support this platform. We were under a […]
Claude Sr took Marni, Scott, and Steve to Europe in the summer of 1966. Steve recalls (from age 5): Kaeti was age one and stayed behind with Claude Jr and grandmother Irma. We flew on 707’s and DC-8’s. Pan Am I think. It was freezing getting off the plane in London. In London, we stayed […]
10/19/1957 – Dr. Claude Zwart scored his first hole-in-one yesterday after 16 years of golfing. hitting the cup on the 116-yard. No. 3 hole, -on The Triple A course in Forest, Park. Dr. Zwart was in a twosome with Joe Dodson. He used an 8-iron for the shot.
Rosemary was quite elegant riding her horse at age 20. Her residence at the time was the Buckingham Hotel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_Hotel Baseball player George Sisler “Gorgeous George” was the American League MVP in 1922 and the manager of St. Louis Browns from 1924 to 1926. He liked to hang out at the Buckingham Hotel. Rosemary saw […]
I was riding the Pea Picker bike on the sidewalk in 5th grade in Florissant. Somebody had edged the sidewalk, the front tire got in the groove, and I fell face-first into the sidewalk, just 100 feet away from our house. It shattered my two permanent front upper teeth. Showing my Mom (Marni) what had […]
Claude got Steve this nice bike in 1971 when we lived in Florissant. It had 5 speeds, suspension front and rear, and a front drum brake from a moped.