Michael Gardner:  

Life Having just reviewed the Q/A’s on the “Classmates’ site, I realize that most of their choices are, for me, irrelevant. For instance, personally, and I know my view differs from many of yours, my pet peeve is knowing that there is an idiot sitting in the White House! And if I won 100 million bucks, I’d use some of it getting the moron thrown out of office. Anyway, after High School I attended three different colleges over the course of my academic career: El Camino, U of Texas, and San Francisco State College. My degrees are in History and Astronomy. I have had numerous jobs, but my last was as a computer programmer with Kaiser Permanente, in Northern California, where I managed financial systems. I have been retired nearly ten years! I’ve been married three times. My first wife, Denise, and I had four kids, the last twin girls. Dee and I divorced in 1986, and she has since passed away. My second wife, Sandy, and I were together fourteen years, until she passed away after a long struggle with diabetes. I again married in 1997 a woman I met at Kaiser, Jinky. We are living happily together in Northern California. She is an underwater archaeologist. In fact, we just returned from an expedition to Mexico (...Expand for more