Robert Booth:  

Life Well right after Hoover I went directly into the US Navy. I spent four years there as a trained weatherman. I did mostly observing, though I spent four months at NAS Moffett Field working in anti-submarine warfare. The years in the Navy were great. After the Navy I settled in the San Francisco bay area living first in Piedmont, and then progressively farther south as the years went on. Right after my naval service, I began attending junior college in Alameda and went to work for Safeway Food Stores in Oakland, Rockridge area. After 3 years at Alameda JC I earned an AS in Mathematics. During those years in the JC I met my first wife, we married in 1989. The marriage lasted 6 years and we had one child who lives with me and attends high school in the mountains above Fresno where we now live. After Alameda JC I was accepted to UC Berkeley in 1991 where I lasted 1 1/2 semesters, then withdrew. I was really disappointed with the professors. They were inaccessible and the Student assistants were mostly worthless. The only redeeming quality of the experience was that I took classes with friends from the JC who also majored in math. I...Expand for more