Rick Whitt:  

Hello, World of Arroyo Misfits, I lost the my best friend, cohort, pardner in crime and wife, Lisa, of over 45 years in Jan. 2022 to ovarian cancer. Please forgive the Lisa centric photos I have posted. After the shutter was released, this is what I saw. From the view finder to reality, I lived and loved this Dream of a Woman for 45 happy years.. Lisa worked as a Optical Technologist at an eye surgeon's office in Beverly Hills. Me? Boeing, McDonnell Douglas in Engineering Test, wind tunnel models mostly. I graduated from the Laser Electro-optical program at Pasadena City College. This was before cd discs and grocery store scanners. I built lasers from scratch. I also took holography during that time, making many holograms, on glass slides, lasers, optical tables, and development of those slides. Geometric and Diffusion Optics. All my teachers were Cal Tech Professors. Lisa always said that I saw her. through beer goggles and my perception tainted by love. That’s Mr Beer Goggles to you. Hello and Goodby for now., Rick Whitt . My wife Lisa earned her baccalaureate degree at 19. Lisa was planning on becoming a teacher but after being assigned to teach in east L.A. she left that job because of difficulties. Afterwards she went on to work for an eye surgeon. When the digital age came around, the surgeon could not get anyone, anywhere to d...Expand for more