The handsome devil to the left is me.  The photo has only been touched up a little but the make-up was tough to get off.

Over the past 55 years, I have held a number of different jobs:    

• Trapper

• Stock boy 

• Ditch digger

• Grease monkey

• Mechanic

• Truck driver

• Short order cook

• Salvage diver

• Teacher

• Statistician

• Electrical Engineer

• Retired Bum

All but the last two took place between the ages of 10 and 24.  At 24, the University of Missouri got tired of me and finally gave me a couple of degrees that say I am an engineer.  Since then I have spent my time designing and building various electronic gadgets for military vehicles, mostly aircraft.  Most of the Navy aircraft flying today have some avionics on board that I had some hand in designing and building.  Strangely enough, most of it works.  At 63 I retired, never to work again.

Somewhere along the way I acquired two sons; Sean and Mike.

More recently, Sean (on the left above) provided me with my first granddaughter, Kayla.

And this is my new home.  We just moved in April, 2006.  It's a great place.  There is no grass to mow or leaves to rake, no property taxes, no grouchy neighbors (not for long, anyway), and the weather is always warm.