Karen McClellan:  

Will be taking my grandson Michael to Germany this year 2018. Want to show him Munich where I lived and worked for 10 months. Also Berlin, Dresden, Rothenberg, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Mainz. Also lingering a while in the Bavarian Alp area. and then on to a cruise down the Rhine. Should be fun!! Into my fifth year of retirement. Have decided to get more involved with my community. I just completed my first year in Pilots Club where I am the grant writer. I will be attending the Las Vegas convention in July. I am also on the board of the stockade. We have a portion of the stockade remaining the original settling of the city. We keep it in repair and have a frontier museum and have fund raisers. Also a member of SWKAAA, South West Kansas Area Agency on Aging where I represent Barber county. Finished my second semester of HTML5/CSS3. Explored other forms of web page design, other formats and how to up grade and qualify pages using the W3C parser. Found the parser easy to use, pretty much the same format as I used in verifying computer chips. Was the only student, out of 22 that started the class, to finish the class. Yeah!!! So on to more classes this fall. Watch out people grandma's heading to class!! Also took the time to tackle a part time job. I'm now the assistant head cook at Elder Care, here in Medicine Lodge, making meals for 150 + people per day. Love to cook so this is a labor of love. Really fun having a meall with these 'old folks' and hearing their stories about the 'good old days, and how things have changed on the farm. Also hearing stories about when my mom and dad were kids. Like most parents - they didn't tell you everything!! At the center we only cook dinner (the mid-west slang for lunch). Get's confusing when you're invited over for dinner and when you arrive you realize you've missed the meal you were meant to attend. Evening meal is supper. Kind of explains "Supper clubs." Still don't know how far yonder is, can't tell time or direction by the sun (always used the mountains to know which direction I was going). I've found out that GPS doesn't always get you home after you've been out looking for an old cemetery on some dirt road, found out you can get sideways going to fast on a dirt road, and that deer and other wild animals can run across the road just about anytime day or night. And the one that drives me nuts the most, these people talk soooo slow!!! So still having fun, still enjoying life, going to class, doing my genealogy searches, checking out ghost towns, old cemeteries, visiting grandkids, and heading out to California to visit my son. Was so fearful of leaving the working world, didn't know what I would do to keep busy. Retirement has been such a time of joy. Can't believe that I was afraid of being bored!!! Life My Kids - three sons,one grandson, two granddaughters Steven - Deceased. Michael - owns and operates McClellan Air and A ABCO heating and air conditiong service in San Jose, CA. One son, Michael Jr. Michael Jr. - Working on an business degree while being an assistant manager at Whole Foods on Almaden Exp. & Blossom Hill Rd. Surfboarder, long trip bicycle rider, all around good guy!! Cute too - 6'1", blue eyes, blond hair. Christopher - Deceased. Wife Tina and daughters Christina and Christiana live in Austin, Texas Christina - Freshman in high school - playing volleyball and basketball, she's 5'8" so she fits right in those sports. Agressive in sports, shy otherwise. Christiana - Sixth grade - my little intellectual, straight A's all through school, plays violin, and has an absolutely wicked since of humor!! My retirement!! - FINALLY after 37 years in the field !!!! I have chosen to leave California for the present - still have my house there - and have bought a retirement house in of all places Medicine Lodge, Kansas. This is where both of my parents are from, and I've got cousins all around me. I'm also able to take the time to finish the book and web pages that I am doing about the county that I live in. I'm also very busy with the Historical Society and the local Library. And going to Jr. College. I've managed to convince the college that I have the requirements to take their HTML-CSS class. So far so good on the class, I have the second highest grade and my competition is in their 20's. I have web pages on the internet at the moment but they were created in the early 90's. Sooo much has changed - this class is really challenging and extremely fun. I can hardly wait until December when I'm finished with the class and finally start my own page. My Job I've retired from working for a small DRAM company in Houston, Texas. The exciting part, was working on a joint project with Qimonda in Munich, German, I was also sent to North Carolina several occasions - nice place to vist, plenty of places to visit on time off. In the past I have been a consultant in integrated circuit layout, most recently it was DRAMS, DDR2, DDR3 and DDR4. Great fun, challenging and nice to know that I was part of some really great projects - from begining to the end of my working life. I've worked on chips that went to the moon, military chips, Cray computer chips, telephone chips, laptop, and mainframe computer chips. I've worked on the next generation Athlon chip (K8 - Sl...Expand for more