Stories From My Life Today I am years old. These links take you to stories that happened to me during my life (so far). A eighty-year+ chronicle took a while to write (and to read; sorry), but I thought these would be stories worth telling. As you look at the links below you'll be viewing my life story with each story separated from the next by a horizontal rule. When you get to a rule, just click your browser's "back" button to return here. Enjoy! 1930--A sidebar.. 1939--In the beginning.. 1943--Flower power 1946--My first humiliation 1947--Just me and Van Gogh 1949--Golf balls, crawdads and demon weed Blub, blub, blu.. 1952--Enterprise and first love 1953--Blub, Blub, blu.. II The First Corvette Enter "Ham Radio" (stage right) 1954--The blind leading the blind and other ham radio stuff 1955--Wished-for station enhancement The Red Sea A shocking development The Great Booze Robbery - and IBM Me and Ralph Kramden (NOT!) 1956--Me and Elvis Music (faking it) Ham Radio and High School Some Shockingly Bad Judgement 1957--Ham Radio & High School redemption Off to Georgia Tech Proving you can be too "sharp" for Georgia Tech Hamming it up in the fraternity house 1958--The Four Freshmen find me Seduced and abandoned in Little Rock My first car! 1959--Professional Bowling Enter Corvette (stage left) See Rock City 1960--Hell Night - for everyone 1961--My life as a troubadour Sex in the City Where the Boys Are If you don't pass this, you don't graduate.  Blub, Blub, Blu...#3 Taking a dump Getting (almost not) hired by IBM Graduation and going to WORK I move to Greenville SC (ugh..) I meet the girl who will be my first wife Upgrading my ham gear A New Corvette -- and disaster! 1962--Marriage IBM = I've (well, "we've") Been Moved.. 1963--Back to the ATL and Windsor Parkway! Parenthood My First Tower 1964--Big White Station Wagon D-I-V-O-R-C-E Corvette Again! Moving to -- New York City? 1965--And then I met HER!!! 1966--Miami or Bust! Engagement! Exposing Gael to Little Rock (and vice-versa) Kreplach Days Before The Wedding Setting up Housekeeping Annie Gael Oakley Our first Thanksgiving The Jaguar 1967--Pinky Ring Disaster! Jaguar RIP 1968--The IBM Rolling Twenty Van How IBM controls salesman income Corvette -- Redux! 1969--My IBM Sales Territory The IBM Commission Plan Selling Southern Saw Ejected from a State?? The IBM Stockholder Meeting - and Gael The Esmeralda Rally 1970--Me and Mike Carlos Remodel Project #1 1971--New Radios Ham Radio saves people! KRISTYN!! "Jesus Christ, Charles!" Another excellent Ham Radio adventure 1972--The Navassa Island DXpedition! Hamilton Cottage, Jamaica 1973--Back to Jamaica, Mon! Dinner with Movie Stars Betsy and the Record Biz Finding Debbie again Getting screwed by IBM Leaving my IBM Sales Territory 1974--A New House ...and a new Tower Hank Aaron & the 715th The Burglar Alarm Business 1975--Ham Radio and 10-10 1976--The Garbage Truck 1977--The Biggest HamFest Prize Ever! The Birth of OPMS New Home... ...and New Tower 1978--Moving to Boca Raton FL The RPOC story 1979--The Watson Scholarship 1980--Moving back to Atlanta! Cullowhee! 1981--Little Girls and Cullowhee! The IBM PC is born and changes the world 1982--Bringing Ease-of-use to IBM Software publications Ease-of-use comes to Europe via the Orient Express 1983--The Kreplach Festival Leaving IBM 1984--Debbie gets Married! Restaurant Systems Technology and building OPMS (on the side) Mike Bodnar and the Soft-drink Disaster RST and the Mississippi Burger Thief Chaz & Cullowhee - a Two-Fer 1985--Trying to buy RST 1986--Into the Basement The American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) Show in Chicago Installing Dr. Willis We outgrew the basement; a trend, you'll see 1987--The OPMS team continues to grow Kristyn picks a college Debbie is admitted to the Georgia Bar 1988--OPMS still Growing We outgrew Dr. Hardy's space GrandDaughter Heather is born 1989--Our AAO investment grows Kristyn gets her Dream Car 1991--Back in a Corvette 1992--GrandDaughter Chelsea is born 1993--A big OPMS milestone 1994--Our last SMG office move 1995--Microsoft announces Window 95 triggering the plan to sell OPMS 1996--Expanding OPMS into Australia The Sydney Thrill! Aussie side-trips The Best Lunch Ever! We discover the Four Freshmen Society Testing OPMS for Windows 1997--Being part of the WorldWideWeb Selling SMG/OPMS My Aching Back 1998--Making our home BIGGER The Tower is installed The 1998 Black C5 Coupe The 1964 Silver C2 Convertible 1999--The C5 Registry -- and Le Mans? Pursuing the Yellow 1958 What about Y2K and OPMS? The NCM Labor Day Caravan and Gael's Knee Installing my Corvette lifts 2000--Wedding Bells We take our Corvette to Le Mans! 2001--Renewing our vows in NYC! 2002--Spencer Byrne! A Watershed Event in Kristyn's Life The most Unique Corvette of all The Historic Motorama - one of every year 2003--The 50th Anniversary of the Corvette Celebration 2004--Getting back on the air Running on Route 66 North to Alaska 2005--Japan, China and Hong Kong Hayden Byrne! The HOB Wine Tours begin We sell the 1964 Silver Corvette Convertible We sell the 1990 Red Corvette Convertible We buy our last Corvette 2006--Walking our C6 through the plant NCM Museum Delivery of our 2006 Corvette The Dayton Hamfest First Prize Vettes on the Rockies The HOB Wine Tour #2 -- Sonoma County 2007--I go to work for TOPS ortho The HOB Wine Tour #3 -- Yakima WA 2008--The HOB Wine Tour#4 -- Santa Barbara CA 2009--Miss USA - Las Vegas HOB Wine Tour#5 -- Sonoma County Our Four Freshmen Society Convention - Atlanta 2010--HOB Wine Tour #6 -- Willamette Valley OR Saba Island DXpedition 2011--Charlotte's 100th Birthday Stage Show! Space Camp We sell the 53 Commemorative Edition Corvette 2012--HOB Wine Tour #7 -- Sonoma County 2013--We sell the 1998 Corvette 2014--Our Visit to Nashville 2015--The Family goes to DC 2016--HOB Wine Tour #8A & #8B- Sonoma County Our Las Vegas Vow Renewal -- Again! 2018--Chelsea's Wedding 2020--Luke Harper enters this World. 2021--I Meet Great-Grandson Luke. 2023--Hayden and I hear the Freshmen in Livermore CA 2024--Kristyn goes on a Journee Spencer for Thanksgiving 2026--FFS Celebration in Nashville