Gary Parsons:  

Cindy and I move to The City of Hawthorne in 1991 to be close to jobs. I was working for Hughes Aircraft (later to become Boeing) at the time and she was working at the Hyperion waste water treatment plant as a Biologist. Just for reference, Hawthorne is about three miles South-East of LAX, near the 405 and 105 exchange. We have no kids, but a house full of animals. We are known around the neighborhood as ¿The Parsons Zoo¿. We just completed a major remodel of our house so it looks like we are going to stay put for a while. I am going on my 26 year working at Boeing/Hughes Aircraft. I really enjoy my work and the people I work with and actually look forward to going to work in the morning. Cindy currently works in downtown LA for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in their Air Quality Division and seems to enjoy her job. She is very involved in the governor¿s greenhouse gas initiative and frequently travels to Sacramento to attend public hearings. I¿m currently working in the program office for a major satellite program. My job involves determining what caused an electronic component or assembly on a satellite to fail during ground testing. We actually go in and perform an ¿autopsy¿ on the failed part to determine the ¿Cause of death¿. I still find the job interesting after all these years, because each failure investig...Expand for more