Jeffrey Meyer:  

i've had a request from casey (aka karen) to catch you all up on the lfe and times of jeff meyer. so here we go - condensed version: married twice - divorced twice (great batting average). two children, thomas (21) and ali (19). government bureacrat for past 13 years. been a single dad for many years - ali has lived with me for all but six months since her sixth grade year. i'll tell you this, raising a teenage is not easy task, and for all you ladies out there who had to go through junior/high school hell, my hats off to you. flash - girls can be mean to one another!!! as much as i may seem i'm complaining, its been a great trip. she's still living with me as she has learned it cheaper to live at home and have dad pay your bills. besides, as she says, she's daddy's little girl. she's studying at ARC right now, trying to figure out what to do. the flavor of the day is physical therapy - a perfect career choice as she has spent the last five-six years in and out of physical therapy for her knees (five surgeries in four years). moma don't let your daughters play volleyball, at least not year-round and wait til they get into high school. currently she works as a receptionist at - SURPRISE - the debbie meyer swim school! she is also an aspiring "dj", one of the few females in the area. thomas on the other hand has been, well, a boy. not much drama, except when we didn't learn until the day before high school graduation that he would actually graduate. seems like california treats 18 years old as adults - they can check themselves out of school without notifying parents. between this as texas hold-em, well , lets just say the grades suffered and so did his choices of colleges. he didn't get into where he wanted, so he went to sierra college. he also moved out right after graduation (unlike his sister, he didn't care if it was cheaper to live at home, it just wasn't cool!!!). i have to admit he has done well. he graduated this spring with three degrees, a 3.5 gpa, is transferring to ucsb (with a townhouse 2 1/2 blocks from the beach in carpinteria), while working as a waiter at fats in folsom! he moves the first week in aug and starts school in sept. the folks are doing well. my dad (bud) is 85 and still working (my mom would probably kill him if he was at home all day). he just retired from running and starting swim meets last july. he started when we all started to swim in 1960. many years, the last twenty of which were working with masters swimming. we had a 'meyer' famliy race at his last meet in santa cruz. lots of fun - and yes - she did beat me. my mom (betty) had bypass surgery last november and fell in may and fractur...Expand for more