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Relationship

Single. Interested in meeting people for friendship

Hometown

San Francisco

Places I've been

All over California All over Oregon (lived there 10yrs} Traveled to among others: Florida Nevada Arizona Mexico Canada Europe, Germany, Austria, Russia,(Moscow, Vladimir), Bahamas

More about me

    Some time has passed since I joined eons and I think an update of my story is in order.

    I am a 68 yr old widower,  I was married for 40 years to the same woman.  I probably was not a perfect husband
but we always were able to work things out.

    My wife died July 9, 2002, this was not a surprise, she had been terminally sick with cancer since 1998 but it still was a shock to me.  I never realized how much I would miss her.

I have 2 children and 4 grandchildren.  My daughter is married and has 2 kids (girl & boy)  and she and her husband live in Beaverton, Oregon.  My son, his wife and 2 girls live here in Santa Clara, CA about 3 blocks from me.

    I got married at 19. Many people did not think it would last. I guess we showed them.  After several dead end
jobs I found out about  Real Estate.  I started as an agent showing pink bathrooms and yellow kitchens to housewives.

 It did not take me long to figure out that the way to make money in this biz is to buy and remodel your own
properties.  I did that for  years. Later as our business grew my wife and I began a property management company that
grew to a good size.  She and I worked well together.

    When I first joined eons I was a mess.  I missed her very much, I drank to much, and had no idea what to do from
then on.

  By this time my wife and I had planned to do some traveling and enjoying the hard work we put in.  Didn't happen.
I had always had goals in my life but found myself drifting and going nowhere. 

  There was always music in our house.  When we  got married one of our first purhases, using money an uncle gave us as a wedding gift, we bought a HI-FI that played records, 45's and LP's.  We got quite a record collection.  After Lucy died, I could not listen to music, it hurt and brought tears do my eyes, hell, I would bawl. I could not bear to hear our songs. I resigned myself to silence  just the TV on. After some years and a lot of soul searching I found that I could listen again to the old songs we loved. I guess it took time to heal. Sure it still hurts some but the pain has softened and when I hear one of her favorites I get a warm feeling in my heart. I tend to remember the good times and that helps.

   Oh yeah, I quit drinking.  Makes my doctor happy, doesn't matter to me at all,  Funny I thought I would miss it but I don't. I guess it was a crutch that I no longer need.

  I am going to start a business, no not the nail pounding type but a work from home type. It is nice to have a goal again,

  Anyway, that's the short version of my life story. Thanks for reading

Activities

On line crossword puzzles, puttering in the yard, reading, cooking.

Favorite Charities

Salvation Army

Favorite Music

All kinds, oldies, blues, country, some classical, anything by the Platters, Johnny Mathis, The Drifters. Righteous Bros, Ray Charles, Reba.

Favorite TV Shows

Sopranos, Cooking Channel, Fox News, Lonesome Dove, Walker Texas Ranger, I Love Lucy, Mash, Mayberry, 49rs ball games.

Favorite Movies

Godfather, Gladiator, Enemy at the Gate, Arthur, Rocky, Casablanca, Pretty Woman, Shawshank Redemption.

Favorite Books

Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead

Favorite Quotes

"I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a state of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation." Mike Todd "May we never have friends who, like the shadows, follow us in the sunshine only to desert us on a cloudy day." Irish toast.

Favorite Places

Las Vegas, Vancouver, Canada, Bodie, Gold Country, Monterey/Carmel.

Favorite Animals

My persian Cat "Laska"

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