After High school I went to live with my father in Portland. I joined the Portland Civic Theater and worked on one show “The Teahouse of the August Moon”.

I joined the Navy and became a Photographer Third Class. While in the Navy I got to see and be in Hawaii, Hong Kong, Philippines and one of my loves, Japan. I loved taking pictures of everything and talking to the people, who were always interesting.

I got out of the Navy in 1961 and I went to San Francisco. It became one of my loves. You can walk everywhere and no matter where you look it is a picture just waiting to be taken.

In San Francisco I started at General Elect. I worked for ten years selling industrial equipment. I participated in the Interplayers theatre and did a few shows there. Also joined the San Francisco Choir for a time.

This was the time of the changes. There was not just one mind set any more. Everyone had the right to see life as they wanted and things they were a changing. Rock bands in Golden Gate Park. Marching for peace and all the hundred of other things that went on at that time and of course the explosion of music.

I changed jobs and worked for Standard Oil for four years as an accountant in their engineering department. I also studied the Tarot for four years and was a member of an Edgar Cayce study group. But, after fourteen years in San Francisco the city was not the place where I wanted to be. Not being able to be alone and away from people all the time got to me.

I threw it all in the air and moved to Boulder, Colorado where I found work at the University of Colorado in their small computing center.

We started off with an IBM 1401 with punch cards for programming. Moved up to a CDC Cyber 170/ 720 and then to a Cyber 7600. Started Site support, which set up computer labs for the students. From there we started  
P. C. Maintenance and ran it for two years. After that they put me in the Networking department and, boy, things took off from there. 

I never had a job where you needed to relearn the whole thing all over again every four years. It is a changing field. It is really hard to keep up with it all. Right now we are redoing the whole campus. Taking out the old equipment and putting in switches so that we will have a gambit to each building 100 Mb to each switch and 10 Mb to each user. 

I am more than just my work.

When I first move here I went camping in the summer and cross-country skiing in the winter. I do not do that any more. Took EST and enjoy it because it made me change my whole life around and start again. I still enjoy reading.

About 20 years ago I meet a women who changed my life. She is Cristina and was born in Seville, Spain. She is now an American citizen living here,  I met her through a friend of mine. We went out together for five years before we got married.  My life is not the same, nor do I want it to be. She had three kids. Two boys who are twins Ken and Jim and a girl Elizabeth. Life at that time seem to go on fast forward until now. We have gone though a lot together and are still working together to make our lives what we want it to be.

Now I am trying to get the house paid off so that we can retired and travel. Also, fighting the weight I have put on since I turned 55.

The only way you stop growing older is to die young. Well, I am still here.