Jim Olson:  

Hi All, I'm very busy since my wife got sick and almost died a year ago. She's still not back to 100% and may never be. Anyway, in a nutshell here is my story. I was not a big fan of high school. Some good and a lot bad happened in my life during that time. Suffice to say I couldn't wait to get out of school. I miss some of the people but did stay in touch with a few of them as well. When I got out on my own I worked with composite materials, then worked as a heavy equipment mechanic and operator, Then moved to northern California to work as an outside machinist in a naval shipyard working predominantly on submarines until the yard was closed due to defense cuts. Out of the eight and a half years I worked there I spent almost five traveling to other locations (mainly San Diego and Pearl Harbor) to repair submarines and surface ships. I met my wife on one of those trips back to San Diego. She worked locally for the same shipyard. We married in '94 as the shipyard was closing and we ended up back in San Di...Expand for more