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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

I have been hesitating and putting this off, but after reading some of the other posts and fortified with a bottle of wine, I feel I can do this, so here goes.

I am a 64 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 many years and happily my son has taken up the task.  It is not his main income but he sees the potential and is good at it.  I dare say he is better than me.  It makes his old man proud and happy. Now my life is on hold.  I sort of drift through days upon days.  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 always had goals in my life, but frankly at this time I have no goals.  It bothers me sometimes but I cannot think of what I may want to do.  I joined a senior center to exercise and maybe meet people but they are so damn old. I don't know if I have anything in common with them. 

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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