University of Nebraska in architecture 1 year, 2 years in Navy as enlisted man in Japan and various countries in the Far East (learned to love sushi.)

      Then to Seattle for 9 yrs, 8 yrs in Chicago, 13 yrs in Los Angeles, then back to the Seattle area for the last 17 yrs (does it compute to 50 years?)

      Graduated with B.S. in psychology from University of Washington in 1966.

      Married, had a daughter, Jill, moved to Chicago and had another daughter, Jennifer.   (Jill and Jennifer now live in the Seattle area.)   Divorced, remarried and moved to L.A.   Another marriage ended.   Married to Lori Crtalic in L.A. (on Catalina Island - how romantic) in 1988 and had a daughter, Audrey.   Moved back to the Seattle area, had a son, Michael, and have lived here ever since; still married to Lori.   We now live in Lynnwood, WA, a suburb north of Seattle.

      Worked for Boeing as a draftsman while in college.   After college, worked for United Air Lines in Seattle for a while, hiring pilots, stewardesses, etc.   UA trained me as a computer programmer in 1968 and sent me to Chicago to the headquarters office, and I have been programming ever since.   Worked for UA, a small software company, a land developer, and Playskool Toys in Chicago.   Then Mattel Toys and Citicorp in Los Angeles.   Then in Seattle, Airborne Express and Washington Natural Gas (which merged and became Puget Sound Energy.).

      I worked as a programmer for Puget Sound Energy in Bellevue, Washington for 19 years and retired in 2011.   After working for about 62 years (I started working at about 13 years old at Lydia's restaurant as a dishwasher), I am doing just about whatever I want to do.   I get up when I want, read or watch movies all night long, and do domestic stuff around the house.   I do most of the cooking;   I do the dishes, take out the garbage, mow the lawn, etc.   I am studying French with the Rosetta Stone system on my computer.

      I work as a volunteer in a literacy program (Literacy Council of Seattle) teaching illiterate adults to read and write.   I attend philosophy reading group meetings on Saturdays.   We read books and discuss them at the meetings.   We concentrate mainly on ethics or moral philosophy books.   We have read the ancient Greeks, Romans, Chinese and the Renaissance European philosophers.   We read Christian, Islam, Hindu, Judaism and other religious writers as well.