While growing up wwith my parents, every summer meant some sort of vacation trip one - year it was a train trip to New York City where my mother had been born, another year it was driving up the Alcan Highway to visit my father's sister in Valdez, Alaska, a few trips to California and other miscellaneous vacation trips. One thing, in common for all the strips however was they seem to be planned around eating. My parents were foodies before there was such a word. A trip to Seattle, for example, was an excuse to visit Chinatown and go to a Chinese restaurant. A trip down to Portland, ment a trip to Roses delicatessen. My parents were not into fast food.
It was during high school, that I discovered that I had and of the love of my life another passion besides food – music. I love to sing. In my sophomore year my choir teacher volunteered me for state vocal competitions. Despite my misgivings, I went and sang I Got Plenty of Nothing by George Gershwin. I can honestly say that no one was more surprised than me when I took best male solo vocalist.
Singing is something that would stay with me for the rest my life though it was not my chosen profession.
Upon graduation from high school I joined the U.S. Navy. I attended boot camp in San Diego California and went through an intensive nine-month course in Russian language in Monterey, California. Upon graduation of the course I was considered fluent in Russian and spent the next several years using my language skills in the service of our country. During that time, I married a high school girlfriend and we had a daughter, Krystal. Upon leaving the service I returned to Aberdeen with my family. m
It was during high school, that I discovered that I had and of the love of my life another passion besides food – music. I love to sing. In my sophomore year my choir teacher volunteered me for state vocal competitions. Despite my misgivings, I went and sang I Got Plenty of Nothing by George Gershwin. I can honestly say that no one was more surprised than me when I took best male solo vocalist.
Singing is something that would stay with me for the rest my life though it was not my chosen profession.
Upon graduation from high school I joined the U.S. Navy. I attended boot camp in San Diego California and went through an intensive nine-month course in Russian language in Monterey, California. Upon graduation of the course I was considered fluent in Russian and spent the next several years using my language skills in the service of our country. During that time, I married a high school girlfriend and we had a daughter, Krystal. Upon leaving the service I returned to Aberdeen with my family. m
My wife and I parted ways shortly there after. I bounced from job to job for a while doing such things as short order cook repo man, theater manager and disc jockey. Sometime during all that I decide to go back to school and began attending college at Grays Harbor community college. It was during my college stay but I met my current wife Lori. We were in a geometry class together or was it trigonometry? In any case, I was captivated. I wanted to ask her out but she had said she wasn't really interested in dating at that time. Now at that point in my career I was working as a repo man. Most my job consisted of driving to people's homes to try and collect back rent on shoddy furniture. Occasionally I'd have to repossess it. Sometimes before helpful it they would help me carry the furniture out to the truck. Usually, however, I had to get whatever it was I was repossessing out to the truck myself. There was one time when I had to repossess nearly an entire living room with the furniture including television and stereo. Truth be told, I was a pretty soft touch. If someone came up with a sob story I usually told my boss that they weren't home when I called and left a note on the door. But in this case the person who answered the door was fairly belligerent to begin with; so I was in no mood to go easy. I set about taking all the furniture out to the truck. When I got to the sofa, I asked if he would mind giving me a hand. Upon receiving an obscene reply I shrugged and managed to get it balanced on my shoulder I just turned to head towards the front door when this delightful Neanderthal pulled out a kitchen knife and said," drop the sofa!" Being a reasonable person, I complied and dropped the sofa - on him - breaking his arm in the process I'm afraid. The police were called and he was laughed at but rather than leaving well enough alone he filed a civil suit. The end result of it being I had to miss two or three days of class.
How does this relate to going out with Lori you may ask? Very simple actually. She became my math tutor. We started seeing each other, I fell in love with her and her four kids and after I graduated from Grays Harbor community college I proposed. I had already made arrangements to attend the Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington so we moved up there where we were soon married. While attending college I obtained an internship with Microsoft. This meant moving up to the Bellevue / Redmond area where I spent the next three quarters interning at Microsoft. When my internship was over, we returned to college and Olympia but by the end of the next quarter I'd been called back to work full-time at Microsoft. And of I've worked in the computer industry, mainly the software testing side of things, since then.
I have type II diabetes, end-stage renal disease, and most of the problems that usually go along with those conditions. A couple of years ago I got a severe infection that settled into the bones of my back causeing excruciating pain and necessitating a lengthy surgery. And that is how I required the four wheel parts of four wheeled reviews.
We are members of the St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue Washington were Lori and I sing in several choirs. I continue to be a mostly unashamed foodie though I've had to change my eating habits considerably since being diagnosed with the above diseases.
Anything you'd like to know, please feel free to ask. You can leave me a comment or send me an e-mail. Also please take a moment to click on some sponsors links. The people at Google tell me that I'll actually earn money if people do click on those link's. I thank you and my creditors thank you.
How does this relate to going out with Lori you may ask? Very simple actually. She became my math tutor. We started seeing each other, I fell in love with her and her four kids and after I graduated from Grays Harbor community college I proposed. I had already made arrangements to attend the Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington so we moved up there where we were soon married. While attending college I obtained an internship with Microsoft. This meant moving up to the Bellevue / Redmond area where I spent the next three quarters interning at Microsoft. When my internship was over, we returned to college and Olympia but by the end of the next quarter I'd been called back to work full-time at Microsoft. And of I've worked in the computer industry, mainly the software testing side of things, since then.
I have type II diabetes, end-stage renal disease, and most of the problems that usually go along with those conditions. A couple of years ago I got a severe infection that settled into the bones of my back causeing excruciating pain and necessitating a lengthy surgery. And that is how I required the four wheel parts of four wheeled reviews.
We are members of the St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue Washington were Lori and I sing in several choirs. I continue to be a mostly unashamed foodie though I've had to change my eating habits considerably since being diagnosed with the above diseases.
Anything you'd like to know, please feel free to ask. You can leave me a comment or send me an e-mail. Also please take a moment to click on some sponsors links. The people at Google tell me that I'll actually earn money if people do click on those link's. I thank you and my creditors thank you.
