User:Darin

My wife and I entered our first TRC gimmick rallye in August, 2001. Actually, I drove, a friend navigated, and my wife was a passenger. But since then, we've been a two-person team (she navigates and I drive), and we've been involved somehow with almost every TRC gimmick rallye—if not as rallyists, then as rallyemasters, precheckers, and/or CP workers. I've also taught classroom gimmick rallye schools.

I was TRC's president from 2005–2007. Teresa Stefanisko is taking over starting in 2008.

Favorite Missed Gimmicks

Of the gimmicks that we've missed, these are some of our favorites:

• We received a CP slip that told us to delete a specific sentence from our GIs. However, the sentence that appeared in our GIs was not quite the same as the one we were told to delete. Thus, we could not delete it and the gimmick remained in force. (Three Strikes and You're Out, April 2008)

Other Interests

My wife and I also enjoy riding our ViewPoint tandem bicycle, organic gardening, and playing board and card games like The Settlers of Catan, TransAmerica, Lost Cities, The Big Idea, Quiddler, and Spy Game. I also enjoy geocaching, and am a member of Geocachers of the Bay Area.

In 1998, I accepted an invitation to join the Web Design Group, which was founded to promote the creation of creative, informative, browser-independent, and resolution-independent web sites that are accessible to all users worldwide.

I am a software release engineer for a local dot-com company.