Gary Cunningham-Lee:  

After graduating from KUHS I went to the U of O for a year and then transferred to the University of Hawaii. I finished up college there and taught young kids for several years and also started a woodworking business. Eventually the business took all of my time and I stopped working in schools. My wife, Pat, is from Hawaii, and when we married we combined our last names: Cunningham-Lee (fortunately, hers was short). After we were married about a year we decided to make a big change and so we moved to Japan (she's fourth-generation Japanese-American, also Chinese and Hawaiian). We've now been in Japan over 28 years. Needless to say, we like it here (though we do miss being able to visit family and friends as often as we'd like). We live in Yotsukaido, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo where I worked at an advertising and translation agency for a long time. Now I spend most of my time working on an open source software project, Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware and consulting for websites that use that software. I'm one of the project administrators, and my main focus as a developer is the "look and feel," as I make visual themes for it, work on the user interface, and so on. I also offer services as a contractor to people and organizations setting up websites. Being part of this software project has been a great way to keep my brain from getting rusty -- I don't need to work on regular puzzles because every day I have puzzles to solve as I work on the software. Also my fellow collaborators are from all over the world, so it's a real good experience communicating with people in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Israel, Czech Republic, Hungary, Fiji, and other places on a daily basis. We have a daughter, Lauren, who recently graduated from Sophia University in Tokyo and now works at a company that facilitates international...Expand for more