Rob Robinson:  

If, as they say, life is what happens while you're making other plans then mine really went awry. The real changes began when I enlisted in the Army in '66, less than 24 hours before I was going to be inducted as a draftee. That resulted in my living outside the US for almost 5 years (Ethiopia, southeast Asia and southern Germany) and my duty assignment as the GM of an on-base audio/photo retail facility my last 18 months in Germany led to a career in consumer electronics. Met my first wife during training at Ft. Devens, Mass in '66 and my second while working for Bose in '75. From '72 when I left the Army and went to work for Bose until I retired in 2006 my career took me from Miami to Boston to Chicago to Cleveland to NY back to Boston to Memphis back to NY to Nashville back to Boston to LA to central OR back to LA to St. Petersburg and, finally (whew), back to NY. That's a lot of packing and unpacking and I've got the bad back to prove it! Met my wife Susan when I was living in LA when she called on me at work (I was her client) and that began an on again/off again 5-year long distance relationship (CA to NY, then FL to NY) before we finally got together permanently in 2000. We lived in a gated condo community right on the Hudson River about 30 miles north of Manhattan from 2000 to 2016 and spent eve...Expand for more