I began my life as a “Navy Brat” as such, my family moved every few years… later I too spent six years in the Navy prior to settling down in the Chicago area for school and work… here’s a history of my journeys.
- Rice Lake, WI
- Pensacola, FL
- Todendorf, Germany (03/1974 – 03/1976)
- Ft. Meade, MD (1976-1979)
- Adak, AK (1979 – 1982)
- Winter Harbor, ME (1982-1985)
- Adak, AK (”again!” 1985-1988)
- Rice Lake, WI (August 1988- July 1989)
- “Boot Camp” Great Lakes, IL (July – Sept. 1989)
- Groton, CT (Oct. 1989 – Dec. 1990)
- Pearl Harbor, HI (Jan. 1991- July 1995) – onboard SSN-725
- Rice Lake, WI (July 1995- Oct. 1995) – mostly traveling.
- Glendale Heights, IL (Oct. 1995-1996)
- Palatine, IL (1996-1997)
- Wood Dale, IL (1997-1998)
- Carol Stream, IL (2000-November 2007)
- Plainfield, IL (November 2007-present)
After hearing about this for years, I finally got to try this exciting event/sport. The closest location to Chicago that I can locate is at Chestnut Mountain in Galena, IL (apx. 3 hrs away on the Iowa border). While it’s advertised as “safe for the entire family”, it’s VERY easy to get carried away and get hurt…. i left some ’skin’ on the ramp myself, leading to some ugly “road rash” on my arms 
Check it out…
http://www.chestnutmtn.com/summer/
CSS Level 2 defines several additional color names that represent the special system-specific colors used by the operating system. These names should look look very familiar to prior developers of “Fat Client” software, primarily VisualBASIC and PowerBuilder.
NOTE: These work with MSIE 5.0+ and Mozilla/Netscape 5.0+, prior browsers “try” to interpret these colors as hexadecimal RGB (Red/Green/Blue) equivalents, resulting in a huge mess.
The colors shown below will be mapped from your current operating system settings and as such MAY vary from computer to computer!
| CSS 2 Color Name |
Example (Using Background-color) |
Description |
| ActiveBorder |
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Active window border. |
| ActiveCaption |
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Active window caption. |
| AppWorkspace |
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Background color of multiple document interface. |
| Background |
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Desktop background. |
| ButtonFace |
|
Face color for three-dimensional display elements. |
| ButtonHighlight |
|
Dark shadow for three-dimensional display elements (for edges facing away from the light source). |
| ButtonShadow |
|
Shadow color for three-dimensional display elements. |
| ButtonText |
|
Text on push buttons. |
| CaptionText |
|
Text in caption, size box, and scrollbar arrow box. |
| GrayText |
|
Grayed (disabled) text. This color is set to #000 if the current display driver does not support a solid gray color. |
| Highlight |
|
Item(s) selected in a control. |
| HighlightText |
|
Text of item(s) selected in a control. |
| InactiveBorder |
|
Inactive window border. |
| InactiveCaption |
|
Inactive window caption. |
| InactiveCaptionText |
|
Color of text in an inactive caption. |
| InfoBackground |
|
Background color for tooltip controls. |
| InfoText |
|
Text color for tooltip controls. |
| Menu |
|
Menu background. |
| MenuText |
|
Text in menus. |
| Scrollbar |
|
Scroll bar gray area. |
| ThreeDDarkShadow |
|
Dark shadow for three-dimensional display elements. |
| ThreeDFace |
|
Face color for three-dimensional display elements. |
| ThreeDHighlight |
|
Highlight color for three-dimensional display elements. |
| ThreeDLightShadow |
|
Light color for three-dimensional display elements (for edges facing the light source). |
| ThreeDShadow |
|
Dark shadow for three-dimensional display elements. |
| Window |
|
Window background. |
| WindowFrame |
|
Window frame. |
| WindowText |
|
Text in windows. |
Cheers!
I should add that I spent about 4.5 years of my life (from 1990-1995) living on a submarine. The ‘boat’ was stationed in Pearl Harbor, HI at that time and made several deployments in the Pacific Ocean. For you bubble-heads, it consisted of one NORPAC, two WESTPAC (the second one incuded some time in the Persian Gulf), and several EASTPAC deployments.
More information can be found here… http://www.skotfred.com/ssn725.php
I’ve made port calls in the following places…
- San Diego, CA (Point Loma)
- Bangor/Bremerton, WA
- Victoria/Esquimalt, BC Canada
- Nanoose, BC Canada
- Guam
- Yokosuka, Japan (south of Tokyo)
- Sasebo, Japan (north of Nagasaki)
- Chinhae, Korea
- Pattaya Beach, Thailand
- Singapore
- Bahrain
- Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Dubai
- Darwin, NT Australia