Carl taught high school and middle school English for 28 years, coached wrestling, football, baseball and track, and advised newspaper and yearbook. In the late 70's, he started using TRS-80 models I, III and 4 and Apple IIe word processing to teach middle school writing. He's been out of the classroom since April of 1994.

Linda taught child care and directed a laboratory center at the Hoosier Hills Area Vocational School (now Career Center) until taking early retirement in December of 1995. After two years of baking on the 5 AM shift at a local restaurant and teaching child care for Ivy Tech State College at the Bloomington and Columbus campuses, she left the restaurant and took a child care position with the Monroe County YMCA. In 2000, she moved to the Bloomington Developmental Learning Center where she is Curriculum Director. Carl still thinks she retired in 1995.

Carl was president of the Monroe County/Bloomington teachers' union -- the Monroe County Education Association -- for six years, served two three-year terms on the Indiana State Teachers Association's board of directors, and five one-year terms on the executive committee. Along with the MCCSC's personnel director, he team-taught senior-level public sector labor relations classes at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

In 1994, a distance learning grant from Ameritech and eventually local funding enabled the MCCSC to move Carl into a full-time instructional technology support position. He was the first president of the board of directors of HoosierNet, the non-profit corporation developing community networking in Bloomington-Monroe County. He was a mayoral appointment to the Bloomington Telecommunications Council in 2000 and 2002, and is the current president .

In his spare time he's a race fan. While he idolizes A.J. Foyt and has a huge watercolor of (CART--IndyCar #14), his NASCAR drivers have been the winner of the July 4, 1986, Firecracker 400, at Daytona, Tim Richmond, and the man who taught NASCAR how to market the product, the late (1951-2001) Dale Earnhardt. He treasures a copy of the innaugural 1994 Brickyard 400 program autographed by Hoosier winner Jeff Gordon (NASCAR #24). This was secured for him and presented by a friend from HoosierNet, Matt Pierce, current staff director for new US Congressman Baron Hill, who was Chief of Staff for the Indiana House Democrats in Indianapolis and a member of the Bloomington City Council.

He played slow pitch softball for 32 years, reads murder mysteries and likes model railroading, amateur radio, photography, and -- in roundball country -- is a fan of the Indianapolis Ice, Seattle Thunderbirds. and Pittsburgh Penguins hockey teams. In December of 1997 he passed the FCC Amateur Radio examination for "Technician" class and was assigned the callsign KB9RVB. In April of 2000, Carl passed the Morse code test and became a de facto (because of FCC restructuring) "Technician w/HF" (or "Tech Plus"). In March of 2001 (with the code certificate about to expire), he upgraded to "General."

For Christmas, 1997, Linda gave him a Hohner Little Lady "C" necklace harmonica and five lessons with local harmonica (harp!) player Pete Conway. Two lessons later, he has 5 new harps (C, A, D, F, and a Chromatica D ) and still only plays chords. He gave his first C and A harps to Cassi and they "jam" with each other. Don't give up, Pete.