Chuck Naffier:  

Life Still living in Fort Collins, Colorado, and my sons (Matthew and Michael) are now 9 and 7 1/2 respectively! How time flies! They are way too cool. . . who would have thought. . . kids!!! :-) Haven't been to Dubuque since my last update in 2003. I do have family in Ankeny and Des Moines, and often visit friends in Iowa City and Burlington. I continue to work with kids and music, writing music arrangements for high school camps, college marching bands, as well as drum & bugle corps around the country. I also travel to Florida, Texas, Indiana and California to judge music performances for BOA (Bands of America) and DCI (Drum Corps International. Personal life update: Did something completely crazy. . . met a lovely lady online (yeah, yeah) from the Philippines. We talked for a couple of months as friends, as she has some music background. We ended up taking a vacation together in Austria to see Salzburg and Vienna, riding the Eurail across the country, seeing Mozart's birthplace, touring 1000 year old castles, and going on a great "Sound of Music" tour, to see many of the places they filmed the movie. Talk about taking a chance in life. . . she's coming to visit me in July here in Colorado, then I'm off to the Philippines for the holidays in the fall. They say that life gets more predictable as you get older. I wonder just who "they" are, and why "they" got so boring??? LOL Best concert I saw this year: VAN HALEN!!!! They were even better than I remember from that first time I saw them in Dubuque in 1979!!!! WOW!!!! Talk about Runnin' With The Devil!!!!! Where I live update: I'm moving in July of 2008. After 18 glorious years in the Rocky Mountains, it's off to the beach! I'm moving to WEST PALM BEACH, Florida to work in a recording arts academy for high school students. I'll be teaching cutting edge hardware/software technologies in a recording studio for ki...Expand for more