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Curls out of: Houston Curling Club
Curling start: "I was watching the
news on TV and they ran an article on curling."
Curling on arena ice: "We curled
for years at the Galleria -- home of Tara Lipinski -- before moving this
year to the Space City Arena. We curl for two hours a week from 9:30-11:30
a.m. on Sunday mornings. The ice is a major improvement this year. In the
Galleria, we faced all kinds of problems with the ice such as 18' curls of
negative ice, foundation problems so the rocks went up and down along the
sheet, a Christmas tree placed on the ice that forced us to shorten our
rinks by 20', humidity problems that caused condensation on overhead
walkways that dripped on to the ice creating bumps of various sizes to
suddenly appear, and worst of all in March and April sunshine hitting the
ice and melting it. Now we have some foundation problems but the curl is
2-3' and usually positive. The zamboni can put ridges down the center of the
rink if they don't run it down the center of the sheet for the final pass."
Favorite aspect of curling:
"Being on something cold."
Curling goals: "To win a game in
the National finals."
Hobbies: Music, songwriting, wine,
Impressionist art, downhill skiing, whitewater rafting, hockey, Houston
Astros, ice skating
If he won a million dollars, he would:
"I would pay off my kids' college debts, buy a house, and retire. With
the second million, I would build a curling club in Houston."
Something unique: "When my future
mother-in-law heard that her daughter wanted to marry me, she said over my
dead body and I said I could arrange that. Actually I met my wife over a
cadaver in the anatomy lab. Also my grandmother was to be wed to an engineer
on the Titanic. I was the only person in the theater to be happy that the
Titanic sank."
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