Glen Davis:  

Life Hey everyone! I hope to hear from anyone visiting San Diego. After finishing Annapolis and my years of service as a dashing (ha!)young Lieutenant in the Navy, and then living in the San Francisco Bay Area for about 17 years, I came back down to San Diego for a long weekend...... That was 8 years ago now (2009)and I guess I must have forgotten to go home. As much as I miss "The City"...I have to admit I love the weather down here in Southern California. I s'pose I should go collect my furniture in San Francisco one of these days, huh. I worked for a lot of years in Corporate America: TI, Intel, Litton, and even the world's largest commercial nursery for a time. I'm always doing 5 things at once, so along the way I've also been a high school teacher, a bartender, a llama-herder, a caterer, a dog-walker, a water-heater installer, a phone-center sales droid, a writer, an editor, a researcher, a caretaker and an estate manager... I love dogs and I've had a couple of Cocker-mixes (Luke and Phantom), a dauschund (Frisky), an English Springer Spaniel (Dylan), a Great Dane (Cinderella), a Maltese (Prince Charming), and an Airdale (Betty), though right now a black cat I call Otello has adopted me. I've been in a shipwreck at sea and in a bullfight in Spain and the last Big One in San Francisco. In Southern California, they say you are what you drive. I drive a Mazda Mx-6, but I also have a '78 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith II, and I ride the bus and the trolley here...so you tell me! And over the years I've had a '60 Mercedes 220Sb, a '71 MGB-gt, an '80 BMW 320i, a '60 Nash Metropolitan, a '99 Isuzu Trooper, a '67 Suzuki 160, an '85 Honda 250CR and a unicycle. I've dressed in drag for Halloween in the Castro (OK, once) and I've camped (the tent kind) in Yosemite and Big Sur and all along the California coastline. I've witnessed a knife fight in Moscow and had a gun to my head in a Bank Robbery and witnessed more than my share of deaths from auto accidents and drug overdoses and suicides. I've been in a Broadway-touring production of "Spring Awakening" and once played a lead in "Plaza Suite"...hell I even once did drag on stage in High School. I've skied the Alps, scootered in Bermuda, swam at St. Tropez, dined in Cannes, bartered in Mombasa, gone swimming with the sharks in Thailand and danced in a palace in Vienna on Christmas Eve. I've met 4 presidents and even crashed a White House party and had a drink with Betty Ford (before both she and I got sober!) I've white-water rafted on the American, Sacramento, Klamath, Tuolomne, Merced and Colorado rivers. I've climbed to the top of Mt Fuji and hang-glided in Austin and driven or hitch-hiked across the USA in every direction and thru most of Europe...My life has always been a big adventure and endlessly hilarious and entertaining to me....but I never got the feeling that what I was doing really meant anything to anybody. They were just adventures for me and jobs to pay the mortgages. I did the big-deal job thing, the house thing, the relationship thing (a few times now - ...), the travel thing,...and at the end I nearly drank myself to death, to the point that I could no longer use my hands or feet...until I wandered off to the "desert" for 40 days and nights in a crippled stupor...looking for me. I even bought myself Vicky Lawrence's old Rolls Royce Silver Wrai...Expand for more