No, wait! You are not welcome to my family. They're mine. I've worked hard to capture them, build their cages and spend far too much time protecting them from poachers. You can't have them.

What I meant to say was welcome to the page about my family. That's better.

My wife, Patty, and I reside in San Jose, California. We come from opposite sides of the globe: Patty is originally from Formosa — that's Taiwan to your youngsters — and I am from Oregon. Neither of us speak any Chinese dialect.

But we come from parents that had the same values, same life's goals, and the same views on life. We are both adopted; she was raised by a couple from the south (specifically Texas and North Carolina) and I was raised by wolves. Actually, ducks... University of Oregon Ducks!

We became friends immediately and have remaind so for the 22+ years we have been together.

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The Tale of Patty and the Guest Room
We used to have a nice, big guest room (12 x 24-feet) with a sewing machine in it. Then it became an arts and crafts room that managed to still allow for a guest bed. Now there isn't even a bed in it. It's filled with yarn, fabric, knitting and sewing machines, video tapes and books. And computers and printers and such.

In 1993, Patty took good advantage of being laid off of her job after ten years at Apple Computer, by using the time to rediscover sewing and knitting and to discover other crafts. To support her habits, Patty consulted at Apple, doing everything from program marketing to online customer service.

Today, the sewing room now sports more square yards of fabric and more miles of yarn than most stores. You can still get into the room, but cat swinging came to an abrupt halt several years ago. Practically every square foot of wall space has shelving or storage cabinets on it. Our guest handling has long since been moved to the den.

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Patty is also did some work with a growing internet software and service company called Open Door Systems, Inc., providing marketing and office support. She became a FileMaker Pro database Queen and Guru.

Today, she works at Adobe Systems as a Programs Manager. No... she doesn't "program" nor does she manage programmers; she manages support programs for developers. Got that?

She continues to work with my company as our part-time office manager.

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During our now 20+ years of marriage she has never aged — some sort of arrangement with a portrait in our attic I believe — and we have managed to become closer and closer with each passing year. While we have avoided having a succession of ungrateful little imps (read that: children) running around, we have had four dogs in our lives, usually two at a time. Click here for some information on our children, Cody and Mandy.

By the way... here is a picture of me having a bad hair day, surrounded by Cody and Mandy who seem intent on finding out what I might have just eaten. Cody also makes a terrible pillow in case you were wondering.

I won't try to recreate Patty's website here on this pitiful site. If you want to know more about us, our hobbies, and have the opportunity to go through thousands of pictures of us, our dogs and our friends, then please click on the picture, below:

Or...click here.