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Welcome to Chez Paul's

This site is Paul's place in cyberspace! If you intended to visit Chez Paul, Paul's French restaurant, then please drop the 's' and retry 'www.chezpaul.net.' I use to have my own business site and mirror site at www.ppsenterprises.com and ppsenterprises.home.att.net, respectively. However, I discontinued my business in late 2000 and was recruited to serve Uncle Sam. Now, www.chezpauls.net is my experimental personal web site, mostly intended to share my skiing photos and video clips.

Yes, I am Paul Schafer, but not my namesake from Canada and who entertain's late-night TV goers. As far as I know, he is sighted. I am not. He is a musician, and I am not. However, we both do appreciate music. My musical taste are eclectic, ranging from Gregorian Chants up to various popular genres in the U.S. and from around the world.

I am a fan of Star Trek, all the TV series and movies and many of the Simon & Shuster abridged audio books, a fan of Star Wars, the movies and audio books, and a B5 fan, the TV series and feature-length TV movies. On and off since 1976, about when the first box set was released, I have been known to engage my imagination and role-play in some D&D/AD&D, also known as Dungeons or Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. I've enjoyed playing other RPGs as well, though not as much as with D&D.

By now, you may have concluded that "this guy, Paul, is a geek." Well, if the skis and boots fit, then I say put them on and rip it up proudly. Others of you may realize that labels are useful and have their limits; and people can ride in different skis an boots proudly... Please read on.

Like some of you, I enjoy keeping current with news in the socio/political, scientific, and technological domains. Mostly, I keep current via listening to certain shows on National Public Radio (NPR), some TV news, and various web sites, including audio broadcasts, recently and increasingly so.

I enjoy or have enjoyed certain non-sedate activities as well, including lap swimming, playing Judo, English horseback riding/jumping, canoeing & kyaking, and my athletic passion is alpine skiing.

Updated on 8:19 PM 8/2/2006