A surprise to all, during college years, I entered the ministry and served for 12 1/2 years before reversing that in 1982. At that time, I returned to school (Arizona State University) and earned a master's degree in Computer Science. That led to a very satisfying scientific career with Bell Labs, GTE, Mead Data Central (Lexis-Nexis), Sybase, Sun Microsystems, and Booz Allen Hamilton. I did return to the Bay Area in 1990 and lived there (except for 2004-2008 near Washington, DC: bi-coastal; with my wife) until late 2013.

My wife and I met on Match.com, and have been together since 2003. We retired in 2013 and moved to Oregon, outside Portland.

The years in between saw me in Arizona (Phoenix), Oregon (in and near Portland), Michigan (near Ann Arbor), The Philippines (Cagayan and Benguet provinces and some months near Manila), Colorado (near Denver), Ohio (Dayton), The Bay Area (Martinez, Antioch, Alameda, Newark, Pleasant Hill), and Virginia (Reston).

Being an Air Force kid, I came to Palo Alto in 1965 and left by 1968. Palo Alto was the absolute most significant of my places to grow in (maybe second only to my four months in Fremont with my aunt and uncle, during Jr. Hi). I moved to Palo Alto the month before 9th grade started at Terman. I started attending Gunn that year, too, for one class: Geometry, because, like Bojana Fazarinc, I was one year ahead in math - as opposed to being in AP Math. So, I was the new kid at Terman getting to know kids there and some older ones in Class of '68.

Encouraged by my older sister Janet and her friends, I ran as the "dark horse" for Soph. Pres. I had so much fun with the "Rice Campaign", making puns with the name, such as "Use your noodle; vote for Rice", "Rice has been around for over 8,000 years; experience counts!", ""The Grain With the Brain", and about 80 others. Did the same later for Head Yell Leader: "Rice has energy, initiative, spirit, thiamine, niacin, and iron!", "I scream, you scream, we all scream for Rice Scream; Riley Rice: Head Scream Leader".

As Soph. President, I loved that we all (none of us of the perceived "popular" kids) did some innovative things - and were encouraged in innovation by the faculty at Gunn (does anyone remember Basil Nazianzus Day?).

Alas, my Dad, who was stationed in Arizona while we lived with our Mom, got frightened by the Bay Area and the ferment of the 1960s and moved us away to Phoenix in December 1967, my Junior Year. Eventually I managed to convince them (my Dad going off to Viet Nam) that I could make it on my own in Palo Alto, so I moved back in October 1968 (Senior Year). But I ran out of money in three weeks and had to move back to Phoenix.

Oh, the drama!

But the free-thinking ways of Gunn High School set my course for the rest of my life.