Gordon Hayes:  

Life August 2016 I retired from The Regence Group IT department so I could concentrate on my writings and film making under my old 1993 film production company. I moved to Bremerton after selling my house in Suquamish after living there for 16 years. life couldn't be better! Spent 20 years in IT. Working from home now for a large health insurance company on web technologies and have published a few books and writing screenplays. Looking to make a career change. So far, so good. I write under an alias btw and have mass social networking set up under that name. High school. Working nights at AutoView Drive In, snack bar manager and box office cashier at the end. Girlfriends also come to mind. The longest was in 12th (then again after I graduated for a short time) w/my cousin Sheryl's friend Julie from Washington High...man, that's a novel right there that continued past graduation, but not with me; thanks to me (long story). Hung some around my cousin's friends from WA High. Graduated high school, kicked around past my younger brother's demise in '75; Air Force at 20; married a girl named Margaret from Stadium. Four years as a Parachute Rigger in Survival Equipment (went in as Law Enforcement (LE), but flat feet nixed that; I'd been sky diving before with Rod and Jimmie Wood, so...). Funny that, as riggers walk a 40' concrete floor alongside the packing table and you had to jump on 238 pound B-52 drag chutes all day with your feet, yet LE types spend most the day in a squad car and I wasn't physically qualified, right... go figure! Got out of the service in '79, split up with my wife, met my next gf at TCC that summer who I went through college with (Monie (Monica)); we stayed together thru '79-85 and both got degees in Psychology and I got a minor in Creative Writer including screenwriting. After Ft. Steilicoom CC (Pierce College now) and WWU together (actually she left for Wazzu that first year but got into so much trouble (2 DUIs), she came back and made it through school with me); graduated, moved down to Tacoma and she ran off/married a Veterinarian named Bill Busch. Bill died and she remarried with her two kids and had another, last I heard and got all religious. That first year at WWU we lived beneath Kim, a girl we a;; called "God" for some reason. Then moved from High Street (or was it Garden) to Happy Valley by Fairhaven. Got a quick job after WWU back at Tower (went through Tower Posters, Records, Video) in Tacoma at the then new Video store that Mark Stephens (who I worked under in the Records tape section before leaving for Bellingham) was managing. Became a supervisor and moved to Seattle with Mark, manager of Tower Video in Tacoma, then manager in Seattle, where we got an apartment. Worked with Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam. He was the blank tape/accessories/media buyer which I took over from him when he said he was going to try and make it as a "real musician". To my credit, I told him that of everyone I knew, of all those who worked at Tower, I was sure he would make it as a musician which he said meant a lot to him. Sadly, met my next wife Kim (Issaquah), there at Tower until I got a job in computers working for MCIS at the UWMedCtr; five years doing that nights, during which, well, Kim ran off too, but I got my awesome son out of it eventually after nearly two sad years with her alone I thankfully got him back. Nik's pretty cool and smart and very talented. Then 1.5 years at UW Personnel office to get off of night shift and acclimate to an office, good advice from the head employment Rep. Ramon, who I ended up playing racquetball with daily. One Friday night, I couldn't take the misery of working as a mere office clerk after five years of total autonomy on nights and God authority on a mainframe VAX and miniVax that handled UWMC and Harborview MC Radiology and Pathology departments, so, I got on my bike (1980 Honda 750 CB Custom, later got the same bike again but a 900 and now as of 2013 have a Harley 2006 Street Bob Dyna model and loving it) & rode to Pioneer Square Saloon in Seattle. I missed my son, I was single, lonely, pissed off, & looking for someone to pick a fight with (no, I'm not usually like that so it exhibits my state of mind). I just needed to take away the feelings I was having. Suddenly, I realized I was also "on call" for MCIS (I was working for them for extra cash, and I had a kid, child support, and no money as I'd taken all the bills); so I had to stay sober that night. Damn! I sucked on a single Guinness all night playing darts in a packed saloon until two women walked in. One was very cute and the other asked if they could play darts with me. I said yes. The cute one, Carin, asked to borrow my darts and I said sure. The rest is history, including the divorce because in the end I refused to give up my son. Nice, right? Long story. One thing led to another and I moved into the cute one's apt. at the Segale Ranch in Auburn on White River. Carin was THE love of my life and a horse trainer and 22 (I was 37 at the time, and ready to run when I found out her age...but again, didn't); so shoot me; look, she was pretty hot, you should have seen her in one of those tiny little clingy black dress things not to mention her tight work jeans as she rode horses all day.Sigh... lol I finally got offered a job as a Tech Writer by one of Carin's horse show client's while we were in Albuquerque, NM. She gave me a job with US West Technologies in Bellevue, and we bought a house in Covington, east of Kent. After my contract was up, I ended up working where I am now and have been for like 18 years soon. Carin took off back in 2001 with our daughter Hannah. She has since remarried and had another cute little girl in 2003. Then bought four restaurants and now sold them and is selling insurance in Seattle with I'm sure, her soon to be ex husband who is involved in the biggest ta...Expand for more