Jim Loy's Personal Stuff

There is only one Jim Loy. Unfortunately, it takes two Jim Loys to screw in a light bulb (one to turn the swivel chair, it would seem). [Actually, I hear that there are four or five Jim Loys out there. Where are they when my light bulbs burn out, is what I want to know?]

Name: Jim Loy
Mail: 1104 S. Montana, H7, Bozeman, MT 59715
Home phone: (406)586-8622
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Biography/autobiography:

Some smaller stuff (incidents, events, & details) about my life:

About my WWW pages:

From my other pages:

Ace that Test (in my Mathematics and Science pages)
Master Complainer (in my Complaint Department)
Bad Boy Loy (in my Billiards/Pool pages)
My Best Softball Play (in my Sports pages)
An OK Pool Tournament (in my Billiards/Pool pages)
Class Clown? (in my Humor pages)
The Produce Section (in my Humor pages)
The Dangers of Eating Cheetos (in my Humor pages)
I Was Out-Smarted By a Tree (in my Humor pages)
Good Thing I'm Not a Poet (in my Science pages)
My Windex Experiment (in my Science pages)
Pictures, a Park, and a Pulitzer - by Tom Lawrence (in my Book Reviews)

Also, see my Complaint Department.

News:

Apr./May 2003 - Egyptology - My picture from A Wall of Thutmose III appeared in Archeological Diggings.
May 23, 2002 - Old - I turned 55. I'm a senior citizen.
May, 2002 - My first book - Finished my first book, have to figure out what to do about publishers.
Jan. 23, 2002 - Bowling - I picked up the 7-10 split.
Jan. 3, 2002 - Bowling - I Bowled 300+162+192=654, my first perfect game.
Nov. 2001 - My WWW pages moved to www.jimloy.com.
Nov. 2001 - Another computer crash, bad mother board, under warrantee.
May 15, 2001 - My grandmother Selma Hanberg passed away, 16 days before her 108th birthday.
Dec. 2000 - Yet another computer crash. My computer shut down and never restarted. I bought a new computer with the old periferals (the old hard disk was fine).
Nov. 2000 - My Mathematics pages were described briefly in the Math Forum Internet News No. 5.48 (27 November 2000).
July 12, 2000 - My father died.
June 2000 - Yet another computer crash. Tests showed good hard disk, good Windows registry, and yet my computer crashed 3 or 4 times daily. Formatting my hard drive seems to have fixed it.
May 16, 2000 - Illness - A blood clot left my leg, swirled through my heart, and lodged in my lung, causing me extreme pain. The next day I entered the hospital, causing me extreme expense. I left the hospital on May 23 (my 53rd birthday). I expect to recover fully in a few months. I re-entered the hospital for another three days because of more pain in my lung.
Jan. 2000 - My WWW pages were awarded the Britannica Internet Guide Award from Encyclopedia Britannica.
Aug. 1999 - Checkers - I won a 6 game match by mail, 1 win and 5 draws, against Jerry Childers, the former World Checkers-By-Mail Champ. He had lost his title several months earlier. This win guarantees that I will take 2nd place in the 1999 I-D Checkers-by-mail Tournament, which is the national championship of checkers-by-mail.
July 1999 - My Egyptology pages won the Open Directory Cool Site award.
May 31, 1999 - My grandmother turned 106. I'm catching up fast, at 52.
May 1999 - Chess - I won the Senior (age 50 and over) Montana Chess Championship. I call it the Methuselah Memorial Trophy. I thought you had to be old to win it.
Apr. 1999 - Billiards - I took 2nd place in the 2nd Artistic Carom Billiard Championship, the Torneo Largo Recorrido 1.999, featuring shots of many rails. Carlos Casanova, of Mexico, took first. I am still the top ranked player. The next tournament, the I Trofeo Massé de Oro, is being held in my honor!
Mar. 1999 - Pool - My pool team won a trip to the VNEA International Tournament in Las Vegas, for the third year in a row.
Jan. 1999 - Pool - My pool team won the Montana 8-Ball Team Championship.
Jan. 1999 - Another computer crash - This was just a power supply, easily (and cheaply) fixed.
Dec. 1998 - Arts - I have thought of a title for the book I am writing: CLICK HERE, TO READ THIS BOOK. This book will be a collection of articles and stories from my WWW pages.
Nov. 1998 - Checkers - I took 4th place (tie for 3rd with Tom Sheehan) in the 1998 I-D Tournament. I guess I played better than ever before. But Bert Vanderpool and Lonnie Martin did much better.
Nov. 1998 - Billiards - I won the 1st Artistic Carom Billiard Championship on the Internet. One of my shots (See My Hot Billiards Shot) is tied for the lead, and I am currently the top ranked player.
Nov. 1998 - Bridge - My WWW version of my bridge software review was awarded the Links2Go Key Resource Award.
Nov. 1998 - Bridge - The November issue of the ACBL Bridge Bulletin included a huge version of my bridge software review. This is my third review for them.
Oct. 1998 - Bridge - The October issue of the Bridge World included a review that I did, of their Master Solvers Club program.
Oct. 1998 - Art - Not having a computer, I said "I don't need this," and drove to Portland, Oregon, played 3-cushion billiards, had a minor car crash, and saw 22 late Monet paintings. This was one of the highlights of my life.
Oct. 1998 - Another crash - This time, I was without my computer for over 4 weeks. This crash was different, software, not hardware. I had to reformat my hard drive.
May 31, 1998 - My grandmother turned 105.
Mar. 1998 - Pool - My pool team won a trip to the VNEA International Tournament in Las Vegas, for the second year in a row.
Dec. 1997 - Bridge - My Bridge Software Review appeared in a Russian bridge magazine (Bridge Review).
Nov. 1997 - Checkers - The ACF allowed me to create an online version of their December Bulletin.
Nov. 1997 - Bridge - The November issue of the ACBL Bridge Bulletin included a huge version of my bridge software review. This will be the second year that I have done that.
Nov. 1997 - Checkers - I didn't play very well, in the 1997 I-D Tournament. I took 6th place (tie for 4th), but only because of fewer entries and because others did worse.
Sep. 1997 - Another crash - I've had two hard disk crashes in one year. It gets a little depressing. After my previous crash, I continued to notice that things were missing, over half a year later.
Aug. 1997 - Used Car - I bought a used 1985 Honda CRX (little 2-seater hatchback).
Summer 1997 - Checkers - I won the 1997 District 9 Checkers-By-Mail Tournament, thereby qualifying for the 1998 I-D Tournament.
May 1997 - My grandmother turned 104.
May 1997 - I turned 50.
Spring 1997 - Pool (8-ball) - My pool team won $900 ($180 for each player) in the VNEA International Tournament in Las Vegas.
Dec. 1996 - Crash - I had a hard disk crash just before Christmas.
Dec. 1996 - Checkers - I took 4th place in the 1996 I-D Tournament, which is the national championship of checkers-by mail. That's my best result ever.
Aug. 1996 - Bridge - A letter-to-the-editor of mine was published in The Bridge World. I'll publish it here, eventually.

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