David met his wife in L.A., got a degree in computer programming in Pasadena, and worked with computers at a law firm in Pasadena. He and his son Benjamin are both guitar enthusiasts of very considerable talent. David is a computer enthusiast and a Linux buff, and has worked extensively on motion picture reviews for Internet.
Scholarship was important to us, and sex was not to be indecently emphasized. I remember how 7-year old brother David claimed at the table one day that he had learned a new swear word, beginning with "V". Dad looked at Mom, and Mom looked at Dad, and we all thought as hard we could, and we could think of no such swear word. So Dad says: "Well, David, there is no swear word beginning with a V. What was it, anyway?" Then David says "Vuck!" I broke into laughter, but it upset Dad, who did not like to hear barnyard swear words applied to the glorious passions of the Lord and his angels at the table.

Puddle's most memorable stunt was the time Rick and I attempted to feed her a large red grape. The dog sucked on that grape, rolled it around in her mouth, then set it down on the rug, gingerly rolling it out from her long, extended tongue. Then Dad zipped around the corner, exclaimed "Ah, a grape!", and wolfed the grape down before we could speak. We could not have explained the cause of our uproarious laughter.
Dad built me a robot early out of tin cans with a soldering iron after I inspected a number of them in Flash Gordon [video] movies. Later, Grandad got me a nice one for Christmas, and still later I got a foot-high Robby the Robot just like the one found on Altair-4 in the movie Forbidden Planet [trailer 2, trailer 3], which was my favorite 1950s sci-fi movie from George Pal. Recently, I've designed an adaptive servo controller for robots that accounts for loads held in the robot arms. Perhaps Robby was meant to suggest a Bolshevik robot, since he seemed to stand on bowling balls, and was invented by Dr. Edward Morbius, who resembled V. I. Lenin. I suspect that the term "Bolshevik" derived from Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV), a champion jouster who overthrew the unpopular Richard II in 1399.

On Edgemoor we had a A&W root beer stand at the end of the block that sold root beer in huge ice-cold foaming crystal mugs. I was finishing one at night from such a mug when my Aunt Betty pointed out the Big Dipper above us, the first constellation I learned to recognize. Harvard Street by WSU and Dr.Christian followed Edgemoor, but by Junior high school time, we lived on Marigold before moving to Murray Court.

I was also Batman & Green Lantern in this.... I was into weights in high school, bench pressing 345 lb. One morning I got caught under a mere 300 lb. after the Nth repetition, and hollered for help. I heard Dad upstairs hurrying with the toilet paper before he charged downstairs to lift it off my chest. Robin and I used to compare pecs. Dad taught me about birth control and taught me to sing a song with lyrics like "Every day is Lady's Day for me..." High school was a wonderful course of love and honor, but good manners will not allow me to list every girl I smooched with in my sophomore and junior years, including a number of exciting and lovely girls that I remember with considerable affection. "Roby" and I dated in my Senior year in High School and in my freshman year at WSU, but never got married. We met again briefly when she visited KU in my Junior Year.