Tom Simpson:  

Life I still live in an old house in Burlingame, a few blocks away from the house in which I grew up. Last kid is away to school this fall (2006) with the other 2 in varying stages of adult growth (isn;t that a kick). The oldest, Greta, lives in SM, works for WEBCOR as Project Engineer and hopeful Superintendant on a site in SF and is pretty directed in her life. #2, Alec, lives with us while his wife finishes school in UCLA. She has a scholarship there and instead of uprooting work and moving south, he works on the peninsula, pays the rent in LA, and can't wait until June 17th when we hitch up the trailer, say "Thank you" for the diploma, and get out of Dodge. She is one of our former exchange students who REALLY liked our family - and that's an other way life continues. We've been to Poland several times to visit with her family and tour around. #3 Duncan, just started in Santa Barbara and got his first legitimate work (not working for friends or relatives, have to apply kind of job) and will get to file a tax return next year. Cool! He spent a year on a New Zealand chicken farm as an exchange student and is thinking it would be very marvellous if he could spend a year studying in college at some foreign school. Keep working, pal and make it happen. He doesn't care much for the Simpson Scholarship (we match dollar-for-dollar what he earns and saves) but then his sister and brother didn't either. That's what loans are for - self investment. My wife, Becky, came from BHS, too - Richard Garneau was her brother-in-law for a while. She was class of 1971 and we got married in Nov. 1971. She has been an electronic industry drafter and printed circuit board designer, IT trainer and software installer, and is currently a project administrator for a small construction company in Palo Alto. After work comes: quilting, Girl Scouts - she's getting her 4th lot of high school-aged girls ready for a trip to Europe next summer - and they're still looking for fund raising projects, LOTS of fund raising, and helping the library with their operating expenses via the Simpson overdue account. We used to know a librarian who fixed our fines, now we just pay....and pay. I work for a commerical furniture company as a project manager in my return to working life. I retired in 2001 after selling office furniture for 15 years and stayed home and worked on a bunch of bike race related projects. I worked for a season at a National racing series across the country - and that introduced me to the way most of the country gets to the airport - it's an all day trip to get to Mt. Snow, Vt and Snowshoe, W. Va, and small joints in Colorado like Durango andTelluride. Alec, #2 kid and I started an event company of our own and we now present 8-10 weekends a year in the Bay Area. That was fine when I was retired but since I went back to work in 2004 it's way more tiring than it used to be. What do I really like to do? Follow the bike racing Pro Tour in Europe. I try to take a long weekend every other year in January to catch the World CycloCross Championships as long as ...Expand for more