Actually, it begins after the dog dies, and the daughters are married!
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: Edward Woods <fogbro1@bellatlantic.net>
To: <drew@pixar.com>
Cc: Brad Kahler <bkahler@omc.ja.dtra.mil>; <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: Bios
>
> Brad,
>
> Life begins after the kids leave and the dog dies. You're almost home.
>
> Ed Woods
>
> drew@pixar.com wrote:
>
> > Ok. Since someone's keeping track of this in a list I guess I'll take
> > my turn in the barrel.
> >
> > I'll be 49 next month. Have been married to my (first and only) wife
> > Kathy for 28 years. Two children; daughter Anne is 23 and finishing
> > up college at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA. Son Matt just started
> > UC Berkeley this week. Kathy and I are suffering through a bit of empty
> > nest syndrome right now. It's just us, the cats and the dog at home
> > now.
> >
> > After starting in the machinist trade when I was 18 it took me 9 years
> > to discover that playing with computers was a LOT OF FUN so I took
> > Joseph Campbell's advice to follow my bliss and made a horizontal career
> > move. I don't regret the move to computers but I'd still like to have
> > a lathe and mill in the shop to play with. After various and assorted
> > jobs I've been working here at Pixar Animation Studios as a computer
> > programmer for the last 8 1/2 years.
> >
> > I'm not sure what it was that got me into British cars but it may
> > have something to do with learning to drive in my then girlfriends
> > Morris Minor 1000. My first car was a clapped out 1956 TR3. I fondly
> > recall the paint job on that car as BRG and Rust. The rust mainly
> > consisted of a narrow band between the BRG and the big gaping holes
> > where sheet metal used to be. But it was a swell car and I sure had
> > a lot of fun in it. After wrecking the TR I picked up a new BMW 2002
> > in 1969. A real nice car in every way but I never felt as connected
> > to the road in the BMW as I did in the TR. About this same time I
> > bought a 1964 Norton Road Atlas. I'm a little amazed at the number
> > of people on the list who either have or have had a Norton. I think
> > this may be another connection between a lot of us. Around 1971 I
> > bought another 1956 TR3 with a factory hardtop. It needed a paint
> > job and upholstery but the body was real straight and not a speck
> > of rust. This is my "Boy I sure wish I had THAT car!" car. I ended
> > up selling it (only car I ever made money on) in '74 to buy my first
> > computer. I don't regret buying the computer but boy I wish I still
> > had that car! Now comes a series of nondescript cars which don't rate
> > going into until about 2 years ago when I picked up my third TR.
> > This one is a 1958 TR3A in the proverbial (name your favorite shade
> > of) Red with black interior. Maybe one of these days I repaint it
> > back to the light yellow the factory painted it but I think I have
> > better taste to put in a red interior like they did. Probably go
> > to a tan or brown one instead.
> >
> > The only other thing I guess I should mention is that I drove a Sports
> > Renault/Spec Racer in SCCA road racing between 1987 and 1993 when I
> > won the San Francisco Regional Championship in the class.
> >
> > Drew
> >
> > --
> > Drew Rogge
> > drew@pixar.com
> >
> > Protect privacy, boycott Intel: http://www.bigbrotherinside.org
>
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