Thank You AdlandPro!!   Wow...I'm feeling overwhelmed right now, but in a good way.   To be named POTW is an incredible rush of energy!   As I was watching the voting this past week, I was thinking to myself this could be the week.  It has become reality alright.

To follow Sam Hall and Sam Sunday as POTW is a total honor for me.  I am most grateful to be the 3rd King respectively.  Georgios' prediction was 100% on target...3 Kings Will Rule!!!

A HUGE "thank you" goes out to the AlphaTrivia Team who put me on the ballot to begin with.  To every one of my friends who voted (collectively not only for me) I say "thank you" too.

It was a real pleasure being in the running with all of the other nominee's.  I salute all of you...you are all winners and good luck this week once again!!

I am ready to be a part of all of the love, kindness, caring and sharing that will flow through this forum this week.  LET THE PARTY BEGIN!!!!

Here is my biography.

I was born on January 30th 1959 in Chicago Illinois.  I am the youngest from a family of six.  Mom, Dad, Grandma, two older sisters and myself.  My Dad was a tradesman in the heating/air conditioning field...he was the breadwinner.  My Mom was a stay-at-home housewife and Grandma split the cooking and housekeeping chores with Mom.  Grandma baked the most delicious date cake and carrot cake, they were two of my favorites.

It was such a different time back then.  In my eyes it was simpler and slower paced...it seemed to me that people had a lot more patience and they didn't need things RIGHT NOW!!

Our whole family ate dinner together 7 days a week...yes 7!  Sunday dinner was special.  We ate at noon while we watched either Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan mysteries on Chicago's own channel 9 (WGN-TV).

I'm happy to have grown up in the years when entertainment was REAL entertainment.  All of the very talented Actors, Actresses, Singers, Musicians and Comedians from that time were once-in-a-lifetime never to be again.  That's the way I remember it.  Today, it's reality show stacked on top of reality show...didn't we turn to entertainment to ESCAPE reality for a little while?

I progressed through the usual 12 year education...graduating High School back in 1977.  30 YEARS AGO!!  My sisters always told me "enjoy your high school years, because after that time just takes off".  They were so right, it really has.

I met a WONDERFUL girl back in 1976, my wife Diane, and we got married in 1980.  We  celebrated our 27th Wedding Anniversary June 6th.  We never had any children of our own, but a toy poodle named Snoopy came along with Diane when we were married.  We've stuck to the four-legged type kids (K9) throughout the years though.   Our beloved Doberman, Deuce, died unexpectedly back on April 15th.  We miss him very much.

Diane and myself have always been Northern Illinois'rs so far!!  We enjoy the simple things.  Our ambitions are to venture out west to Arizona this fall and take it all in.  Soak up some warmer weather for a change this winter .  We've been wanting to go out that way for years.

Well, I wanted to keep this short so I'll wrap it up right here.

One more thing though.  I am very happy to have found Adlandpro.  This is my first "online community" too.  It all started with placing a free ad and it has turned into getting more involved in our community forums and also building my friend's list a little at a time.  Of course, getting to know the wonderful people here just happens naturally!

Thanks again John, Pauline and all my ALP friends for featuring me this week...it is something I will always remember.

To everyone at Adland...have a pleasant day!  Your OREO friend Steven.

PS...If I am not on your "friend's list" please invite me!!