I guess the biggest news lately is that I have started writing my autobiography. Back in the 70's my mom always used to tell me that I needed to write a book because of all the unique, bizarre, and humerous things that had occurred to me. I always laughed at her suggestion, but the older I got the more I thought about her idea. For years I shelved the idea as being too self-centered or perhaps it would turn out to be too damn boring to read. However, in recent years I have come to the conclusion that maybe I have had some experiences that might make for a good read, and started a very general timeline just to be able to stand back and take a good hard (and hopefully somewhat detached) look at my life. I have been very fornutate to have been in the right pace at the right time - and as well I've been in the wrong place at the wrong time, like when I got shot in Tulsa in the 70's. My experience going through high school in a military school alone would result in some very funny stories. So I added more and more "headlines" to my life until I had a pretty good storyboard of the younger part of my life, and I decided the time was right to begin writing the "one good book" that everyone has in them. I began four months ago. The first two chapters, about my family heritage and my mother and father, took quite a long time to get through, because I had so much research into the family archives to do. Once I got started though, the pace picked up in a hurry. It only took me a month to write all 6 chapters of my life at a military school. Of course I continually do rewrites and add things here and move things around in the timeline as updated material refreshes my memory. Now, as I read back my words and thoughts I am of the opinion this might be a pretty interesting and humorous book for people who like to read human interest stories. Furthermore, I now realize this will be a perfect legacy to leave behind for Robert, just in case I am gone before he gets old enough to know what questions to ask. the reason this had occurred to me is because that is exactly what happened to me. By the time I was old enough to know what to ask my dad about his past life, he was gone. And now of course my mom is gone as well, so I have no one to ask. All I have are the family stories and what I know myself from my childhood living around my father. It will probably take me another 4 to 6 months to complete my book, and who knows how long after that I will decide to stop rewriting and updating and just let it be as it is. That's a common thing among engineers and musicians. We just don't know when to stop "making it better" sometimes. So this is a kind of warning to all my friends whom I grew up with to be on the lookout for my book, which will most certainly have them in it as well, because without all the wonderful friends (and a few enemies) I have had in my life, it might have been a much more dull read.

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