Max Pennock:  

I'm not dead! (Red... maybe. Dead? NOT!) Seems my Mark Twain moment began due to Sgt Max Sr, my father's passing 2/95. A "classmate" mistook his obit for me... nice reading comp, dude. The exaggeration was passed onto the editors of an AHS Registry Book. Viola, I'm "deceased" (they actually solicited me to buy the book! uh huh). Since change's a prevailing condition. It's 5 years since I touched Calle caliente. Parents gone; sold my Van Nuys' home; sold our software biz. cashed out. Adidos & Adieu Calle. don't let Enron get you down. With a wife & two lil' girls in Massachusetts, I downsized. I married Kimberley Barre 10/1998. We have 2 daughters, Violette (10/2001) & Lily (1/2005). We live off Cape Cod. No regrets, except not going to college in the northeast but whaddayagonnado? We were Army, pay check-to-pay check working poor. I wasn't supposed to go to college, especially after graduating from a virtually unaccredited high school. Lucky we had Cuesta. It cost $10.00 a semster which led to Poly. Nary a student loan. A Pell Grant lifted me from probable wage slavery. (Until I moved to New England, I didn't even know it was a GUY - Sen. Clairborn Pell, Rhode Island! Go figure? Pell Grants are still a...Expand for more