Roy Schermerhorn:  

Life I live in California near a beach and work in the space industry as a technically informed bureaucrat within my company, part of the military-industrial complex. The company works on technology for intelligence work, but my personal intelligence may be evaporating over time. I have 2 sons born '91 & '95 so I obviously won't be retiring early assuming they go to college. The older one rarely grants me audience although he lives 1/2 mile away with his mom, who was my 2nd wife, in an ocean view house I remodeled mostly with my own labor, but no longer own. The younger son I adopted at birth w/ wife 2. He stays with me and my 3rd (and final) wife Karen (since 1/05) every second week along with her '92-born son who is with us full time. Her '86 daughter is in college and accepts my role in her mom's life at this point. We got a big house so the kids would each have a room, but two of them overnight rarely, so we've a spare and a nice office. Our best view is of sky we know to be over the ocean, seen through power and phone lines 20 feet from the back of the house. We did see fireworks in a small corner of that sky once. We somehow acquired 2 dogs, one of which did in a parrot we liked quite a bit. The dogs are sweet and endearing and mostly quiet, but occasionally destructive when left alone too long, a hazard as w...Expand for more