Yale High School Class of 82 Reunion - and I'm not there :-(

I'm so bummed I can't make it to my 25th high school class reunion. 25 years - blows my mind! Anyhow, I thought I'd post this brief update I sent to the class to let them know I'm alive!

Name: "Robbie"
Class: Yale High School 1982 AD

Current Residence:

An apartment in a small suburb of Los Angeles - San Gabriel, CA (just 1 mile from one of the famous California Missions, and half a mile from a Chinese grocery store that sells live fish, frogs, clams and frozen beef pizzle)

Marital Status:

Married, with children - I got married to Stacey 12 years ago (first and only marriage). We have 2 children: Christopher (9) and Kelly (7).

Employment: Computer Department Manager - same employer for 21 years

Best High School Memories:

* the play we did (someone remind me of the name) and the party afterwards; band (my 9 year old now wears my black Yale Pep Band t-shirt to bed - I was small, but not THAT small - it had to have shrunk!); the small amount of homework we had compared to kids today; and, of course all the friends and fun you can only have as a teenager in high school

Fun Fact:

* I've travelled to parts of Eastern & Western Europe, Australia and the Caribbean, and have had the opportunity to give computer presentations across the United States.

Life changing events:

* When my church stopped being a cult (as some of you tried to tell me it was, but I didn't believe you!), Walk to Emmaus, wife, kids.

Biggest regret:

* Not being there tonight, of course!

Favorite Creative Outlet:

* Making up "Adventures of Super Smiley Face" stories for my kids at bedtime.

Favorite pasttime:

* I'm a slave to my computer(s).

Best way to keep in touch:

Email me - (sorry, can't risk getting spammed - but I did post them in the real message)

You can also check out my seldom updated blog for pictures and stuff: http://meadeumms.blogspot.com

Parting words:

25 years - and loving it! Truly, though, I can't believe it!

Please - every one of you - take lots of digital pictures and video, and make a list of everyone's email that you can! I'd love to either start, and/or work with another classmate, to set up a Yale Class of 82 type website that everyone can get on without needing to pay (like classmates.com makes you do). If anyone is interested, let me know, and we'll meet online!

Finally - here's a recent picture of me and my family...

Where Have We Gone?

Ok, I'll admit it - we haven't posted for a while. Where have we been? Well, most recently, thanks to my generous parents (and a great deal they got thru the real estate biz), we were able to spend a week in Silver Lakes / Helendale, CA - a private city with a private lake in the desert between Victorville and Barstow, and for all pratical purposes, a private condo for us! Here are a few shots of what we did during the week...


The beach was in walking distance from our condo - this is what it looked like on a busy weekend - us and one other family! Of course, it was hot, maybe 105, but the water felt great!

About 1/2 hour to the northeast was Calico Ghost Town - a real live restored ghost town! I thought we'd get a good two hours out of this place before the kids would want something "more exciting" but we had so much fun there we spent the entire day! For more information, you should check out http://www.calicotown.com/.

Another thing we spent some time doing was fishing. We saw some huge catfish & trout off the swimming docks of the lake, but unfortunately, you couldn't fish there. We never caught anything from shore, but the kids sure did try!

One of Christopher's "Wish List" items for the summer was to hit a bucket of balls at the golf course. Well, just at our doorstep was a PGA rated golf course. The guys were great there - not only did they let the kids hit a bucket of balls for the first time, they let us take 2 golf carts out to see the course - all for free! What a blast!

All week long the kids practiced doing a synchronized swimming show in the pool for us - they did a great job putting on a great show to cap off the week!