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Donald James Shave, named after his two Grandfathers

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Welcome to Don’s view of who he Was, who he Is today & who he Might Be In The Future!! As a cultured, married & retired Brit, Don today enjoys his computing/website work (such as this page!), watching his DVR recordings & his Roku streaming device and visiting with his immediate family—all are in a peaceful, pleasant country-setting, a few miles off of Atlanta, GA. Arriving on an international work visa in the US (late ’70s) from his UK home, he retains an active dual citizenship Visit Don’s profile to view his personal details, his “Whom We Might Be” story (each written several years ago) & a matrix of his many websites As this website page is *strongly* biased towards Don’s early years, consider visiting some more-recent online pages? Open his Facebook, LinkedIn, Tweeter or Flickr pages, visit his current Home Page or his ongoing eDiary which does have news reports? Also, for the return links to Don Shave (in images/etc), click Enhanced? Finally for this view, Don is the direct author of this and other Copyrighted (©) web pages that do not hold any Fake data, nor are they using any AI enhancements, as well as of every person in his family tree (some were inherited, some imported), many branches show his 90+ generations in their names (see an example here), as well as the places of their events, their notes, the sources & citations (all downloaded), with many obtained quotations, episodic comments, pictures and such (and yes, for *each and every* item!), his the “Three of Me" concept would like to share that he sure does like to write!! Regards, Don    who may be shown as "DJ" in these pages… Feel free to contact him? Cheers! eMail: Don.J.Shave (use backspace to return?)     Page is edited to eliminate those auto-generation glitches; other page updates may follow ;)
Don's Biography & An Overview of “just a few” of his Key Facts
Birth	Jul 1955	So… Don’s birth was early on a Monday morning at the Aston Greys Nursing Home on Knole RoadGin Boscombe, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England (which today is in Dorset) & was advised by his Mum (via some notes in a 1984 birthday card that she had painted for his 39th) that he had arrived at 4:55am on a Monday as a tiny baby Don was also given to understand (unsure as to precisely when, but it was most likely prior to his birth) that he had been named after his 2 Grandfathers: Donald and James With a reported low birth weight of 5 pounds/5 ounces-ish, his Dad had once said that when he held him as a baby, it was like "a ball of string with 5 pieces attached" for those skinny arms & legs The time & the size "facts" (from Don’s Mum) are also her numismatics for "5" being the most important number, apparently / NFIA… Bournemouth+was in Hampshire, moving to Dorset in 19741,2,3
Death	2075	Don's page shares a false fact: "I died in 2075 at 120 years of age"… This virtual event allows Don's data to be shared with his online tools
Story	Apr 2016 updated Sep 2019 and Jul 2024	Don wrote a story named "Whom We Might Be" several years back while living in Roswell, GeorgiaG… certainly worth a minute or two! Clickto view the Homo Sapiens origins map & clickfor info on the story
Historical fact		Storage of the key relevant citations are listed below-also view the Region of The British Isles, EuropeGand refer to the Place location+for more information?
Historical fact		Don's direct ancestry was traced back during his research to many Kings with the most significant of them being that of Ecgberht, who was born in the Wessex Kingdom of MiddleAged England on September 29th, 775 and became the King of Wessex (and a Bretenanwealda, Britain-ruler) around 802-also view the Region of The British Isles where he was KingG
Vital	April 1998 to today	Every element of Don's family tree is legally controlled:     All Rights Reserved © April, 1998-today’s date Don Shave4
Jamie's Childhood Years
Name-Nickname	about Aug 1955	Around August of 1955, Don became known his to family as “Jamie”, most likely from his Dad; sadly, this is NFIA
Residence	Jul 1955 to Sep 1955	Jamie lived as a tiny baby with his Mum & Dad in an upstairs flat at 10 Carlton Rd in BoscombeG for ~3 months…5
Historical fact	Sep 1955 to Jan 1971	Jamie grew up in his home at 70 Elmes Roadin Bournemouth for 14+ years… With many-a-tale to tell, just a handful of threads are added here for this story-see the childhood eDiary details & a Places page; do take a peek at some of his older photo album snaps? Cheers!
Historical fact	Feb 1958-ish	In February of 1958 or so, Mum would sit Jamie down (likely every day) to listen to the "Daily Radio Show" on BBC4 in the early afternoons; those opening words still resonate clearly in his head after more than 50 years: "Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin…" The show is shared here…
Historical fact	1959	Starting in about 1959 at the Winton LibraryG (which was built by Andrew Camegie in 1906) where Jamie recalls the commencement of being an *enthusiastic* reader of books, both fiction and factual… Mum had read to him since he was born, and remembers being at the library with her very often-he did so love those boys adventure books! See a snap of the reading room from the 50’s?
Education	28 Jul 1960	The year is solid but the date is an approximation; this was the start of Jamie's school life at the Winton & Moordown Infant’s School for boys on Coronation Ave in Bournemouth, which was quite close to 70 Elmes Rd
Historical fact	1961	“Uncle Peter” (see notes at his page?) helped Jamie to learn how to tie the shoe-laces as his Dad hadn’t been able to do that… Jamie can actively recall an event to avoid, learned at an early age (not precisely dated, but close enough…) Whilst riding on a Dorset county bus with his Mum traveling somewhere for a day out, he was seated on the "front seats" behind the driver facing the back of the bus, and he got sick and threw up!
Description	Mar 1962	Jamie recalls that he was always "busy at bedtime," drilling holes in the wall next to his bed (with a screwdriver) back then for reasons that simply cannot fathomed… This *absolutely* infuriated his Dad as he kept doing it, despite Dad’s belt on his back… right around the age of 6 or 7 Mum & Dad had taken in lodgers during this time (as cash was needed); in March Jamie had sneaked into Terry’s room when he was out, managing to steal his large pocket-penknife… when it went to school with him the next day to boast about it, he was caught with it in his hand… more of Dad’s belt
Property	Jun 1963	The Silk Jacket that Jamie’s Dad had brought home as a gift from his visit to New York city in the USA; he was working at that time as the chef for a ship in the Merchant Navy and went to many places around the world… Just a few days later, Jamie managed to take it off (as it was too hot to wear!) while playing near his house at Redhill CommonGwhere it was picked up from where he had left it (hanging on a bush or just on the ground) and never came back to us… It’s still burned into Don’s brain how *furious* his Dad was when he lost his gift :( [ sourced from a passing thought on Fathers Day in 2018 ]
Education	28 Jul 1963	As Jamie moved up to the Middle School for boysG, his Mum changed the registration name to “James Donald” in an attempt to redirect the bullies (Leslie Baldrey, et al) who made up that horrible teasing rhyme:    Donald Duck did some Muck, behind the Kitchen door…    Mother Duck cleaned it up and Donald did some more! Her registration effort just didn’t work at all-the boys continued to follow him home from the school, chanting… he distinctly recalls crying as he walked home with them following him along on Oswald Road
Historical fact	Nov 1963	Don's sister Dawn was sadly stillborn in June of 1963, causing this event… His Mum became very depressed with this loss, and went away a few months later to ManchesterG+ with Peter in an attempt to help her sadness; see the 1963 notes in her profile?
Historical fact	early 1965	Jamie was caught red-handed shoplifting for his girlfriend Liz… a pocketful of dirt-cheap jewelry at a big store downtown in Bournemouth This all ended up in a world of legal shite, with his Dad unsuccessfully asking the Chief of Police for mercy; he ended up at the age of 10 with two years of probation which started "The Sad & Bad Years"
Don's Teenage Years
Description	Jul 1965 to Dec 1970	The "Sad & Bad Years" were where Don literally managed to take his Dad’s world to the lowest possible of lows for him… Worst ever was Jamie being a bully, beating up another child (who is sadly remembered, yet will remain unidentified), one of the many threads that caused him to be *evicted* from his Dad’s home in 1970 to join the British Army
Historical fact	Mar 1966	When Jamie was almost 11, the Winton & Moordown Middle School for boys on Oswald Road delivered the "School Streaming Examinations," where students were graded to determine whether or not they would succeed with a Grammar School education As the world was changing back then, although his scores were certainly high enough there apparently wasn’t enough capacity at the Grammar School for boys in our town; Jamie ended up being sent to the "G-stream" in the Senior School for boys (likely due to geography, as much as anything) where he was eligible for O-levels vs. just a CSE… sadly, he never achieved anything (other than sessions with the headmaster’s cane) in that school, as described below View an article of historical interest?
Residence	1968	Jamie had a music studio at 70 Elmes Road for a couple years! Just a lovely snap that he found of the room that was completely his… it was decorated with pebble-style wallpaper, had a comfy-ish bed (1/2 of a set of bunk-beds), his red shirt hanging on the chair & his neck-tie hanging on the wardrobe handle, and that "surround sound" system with a stack of singles (sadly no longer possessed / eSigh!) with various other memories
Occupation	Jul 1967 to 1970	Jamie’s work as a youngster began around July 1968 once his probation (above) ended, with many sunny summer days spending time learning about the world of work… compliments of his Dad, he supposes Jamie had earlier delivered newspapers for about an hour on weekday mornings with a paper route from the local news shop; managed to get sacked after a couple weeks as he’d decided to grab several bars of “free” chocolate to eat as he walked… he can actively recall the shop owner following after him, picking up the discarded wrappers!! Jamie then worked as a washer-upper of the dishes/knives/forks etc in the kitchens at the "Sea-Witch Restaurant" in Poole for a while, just a 30-minute bike ride from home; they changed at some point to the "Loch Fyne Seafood & Grill Restaurant" and later became the Anchorage Hotel, which may or may not be currently active… He also worked at that time with his Dad, helping him to maintain the gardens of the "rich people" who lived in the downtown Bournemouth area and spent Saturday mornings working with his Uncle Reg at the family Tape Recorders shop in Bournemouth (which moved to the main street in Boscombe a few years later) where his Uncle Reg taught him about soldering, transistors, electronic circuits & the resistor color codes, with a rhyme like "Betty Brown Rode Off You Get By Vera Good Wife Gold Silver"… some invaluable knowledge for the work that Don moved into as he came out of the Army in 1978! View a summary page of his life’s work here?
Historical fact	Jul 1968	Jamie's Uncle Jack & Auntie Jean gave him a gift for his 13th birthday, an Antique Postage Stamp Albumthat is shown as being printed between Nov 1893 and Dec 1893 Uncle Jack told Jamie when he presented the gift that the album had been given to him by his father, Albert on his 10th birthday in 1934; Jack then maintained and built up the album during his childhood years-see more details at Jack’s father, Albert Gabbutt? The album remains today in a fireproof safe at Don’s house; view a summary of the contents6
Historical fact	1969	As Don wrote this 50-year-old diary entry in late 2018, the threads weren’t really in his head, just some captures from various sources… Don was "Up to a Lot of No Good" out and about on Redhill Common, in Kinson and other places as he became 14 on a Friday in July of 1969, with no recall at all as to what kinds of gifts might have been given to him by his Mum, Dad or Uncle Peter, and whether or not there was a party… it was likely that he was just out, making trouble Don broke into the metalwork shop at the Oswald Road Senior School Annex with Johnnie Early and Dave Ellis late one night, likely in the spring. This was a real "pro job" where we planned the raid, knew what we wanted to take and where we were going to sell the stuff, etc, etc. We had left an upper window during class just open enough to allow us to get back in later at night; we were just lucky that no-one had spotted and closed it! We got in ~11pm (wearing gloves & soft-soled shoes, dark clothes, the works-regular crooks…) and raided the display case for all the brass and copper bowls, etc; a bagful of the stuff to lug out… we got halfway across the back playing fields before Dave realized that he had left his gloves with his name in! We got away with the stuff ok, but Don then had a visit from the cops…they simply didn’t have anything to pin on him or on any of us. We sold the junk later over in Boscombe for a few quid, and thought that this was the greatest thing… such youthful foolishness During the summer Don broke into the Bournemouth School for girls with his friend Johnnie Early, looking for mercury to sell… he had heard sometime earlier that week at school that this stuff was very expensive-it simply never occurred to us that it wasn’t sellable in any shop we could go into! This was also the night that Johnnie managed to cut himself with a damned scalpel and we got a bunch of powder paint all over ourselves when trashing the place… Don’s Dad was extremely suspicious when we got home (and Don’s Mum wasn’t around), and when he returned from taking Johnnie home, he proceeded to say "OK, Johnnie told him the whole story; now he want your version!" I was scared shitless and ’fessed up the whole deal… of course, Johnnie hadn’t told him anything of the sort, and couldn’t believe that he had bubbled him. We both ended up at the copshop that night, and Don’s Dad later told him that he had gotten the Chief Constable to "bend over backwards" to let him off of what was probably a serious charge… Don just hated his guts anyway for his lying to get a confession, and a few days later scarpered off (to Meyrick Park, in fact) one night Johnnie and Don also broke into the Glenmore Girls School that summer, and nicked a couple of cello’s becoming the "music men" for an evening. He sold them somewhere, or maybe just smashed them up… Don saw no cash out of it either way!
Description	Sep 1970	Don ended up as the 2nd kid to be expelled from the 5G class (after Jules Stravinsky) for being a problem child at the Winton & Moordown Senior School in mid-September, 1970… He recalls that his Dad knew not what to do with this, perhaps the final “straw on the camel’s back”? Who will ever know…
The Army Apprentices College in Harrogate
Description	15 Dec 1970	Don was signed up for the Army by his Dad on December 15, 1970 at the British Army Recruitment Office on 244 Holdenhurst Road in BournemouthG This was after his Dad’s seemingly endless futile attempts to try and keep Don off of the road that he was on to become a criminal (possibly from his own childhood learning) with his school eviction event (above) being Dad’s final choice (not actually spoken to me, but surely true enough…) "Let's have someone else give it a try as I clearly can't influence him enough…"
Military	Jan 1971 to Apr 1973	On Friday, January 15th, 1971, Don arrived as a young Army rookie at the Army Apprentices CollegeGin Harrogate, Yorkshire, EnglandG and spent the next 2+ years of his life in the Bradley Squadron there Many, many memorial events occurred while he was there… Don was playing on the rugby team as the tight-head prop, hitting the marching-band big base drum (slowed down as he recalls), walking the 48-hour Lyke-Wake walk across the Yorkshire Moors, after walking into town (about an hour), discovering his 1st formal knife-fork-spoon table-setting as we sat in a restaurant (late-summer of 1971), taking those horrible cross-country runs, and having those massive PT sergeants screaming in his ear that he “wasn’t trying hard enough with those damned reverse curls!”
Historical fact	About September 1970	After Don was at Harrogate for a while, a phone protocol with his Mum was established at 70 Elmes (my home) for a series of weekly calls on Saturday… at one specific phone (of the 3 phone booths near to the churches), he’d ring up around lunchtime, hanging up after letting it ring 3 times… it never failed (to his recollection) to get a call-back, reducing his expenses! Don was promoted in October, 1972 to an Apprentice Lance-corporal of the A-Troop and again in January, 1973 to the A-Troop Corporal with the Corporals Bunk; a snap of many friends and some memories are here6
Graduation	Apr 1973	Don graduated from the AAC with four top-of-the-class achievements, something never done before or since… view the info here?
Army Life in Soltau, West Germany
Residence	Apr 1973 to May 1973	After graduating from the AAC, Don lived for a month or so in the barracks at the Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire, EnglandG as a squaddie; this was en route to his station in Soltau
Military	May 1973	He traveled via a military plane (his 1st flight!) from Stansted Airport to Hanover in West GermanyG and then onwards to Soltau Stansted Airport (on Bassingbourn Rd in Stansted, England) is an international airport in the district of Uttlesford in Essex, 42 mi northeast of Central London and 0.9 mi from the Hertfordshire border As a note of interest, West Germany had existed since the end of WWII, where the Potsdam Agreement had established the exact delimitation of Germany’s East and West postwar boundaries; the country was reunified on October 3rd, 1990
Military	May 1973 to Nov 1974	Don served as a squaddie for a year & 1/2 in the Bournemouth Barracks of the 7th Armoured Brigade HQin Soltau, West GermanyG
Military	Nov 1974 to Mar 1975	Don took a 4-month tour at the RUC Station on Hastings St. in Belfast, Northern IrelandG as a comms.op for the Brigade HQof the King’s Own Royal Border Guards; he lived and worked there his friend, Dave Cleminson Don had a few scares during that time: guard duty as the highly-frightening courier "shotgun" ride-along (who gets shot 1st) w/military papers up to the main HQ; was lucky enough to have missed things like the bombing of the RUC Station in July, 1971 A few months prior to this, several of us were providing training for the troops in Soltau; see the note & info on the KORBG here?
Historical fact	Saturday, April 19th, 1975	On a Saturday afternoon in the Eastleigh Baptist churchG, Don & Jane were married with family and friends
Historical fact	Apr 21st to 28th, 1975	A few days after our marriage, we took our honeymoon in the Isle of WightG+
Residence	30 Apr 1975 to Jan 1977	We then moved to our 4th-floor MQ flat at Amselweg 4 in Soltau, West GermanyGfor 2 & 1/2 years; we also had a short visit at Paul & Julie’s place as we arrived! Click to view some of the memories:
Historical fact	May 1976 to Jun 1980	Working at the barracks in Soltau, Jane made us some extra income, allowing the purchase of our Hillman Huskythat was sold in 1980, right before Don moved away to the US
Don's Disastrous Life-changing Accident in August, 1976
Medical	Aug 1976	Don's life-changing event occurred in late August, out in the countryside near Stadtverwaltung, about 50km SE of Hanover in Bad Salzdetfurth, Hildesheim, West GermanyG… Sgt. Gary Coude & Don were out & about, playing soldiers-Don ended up taking a swan-dive from the top of our 432 (trying to release the coolant from the overheated radiator) which fractured both his elbows & wrists as he hit the road on them; that sad event changed the rest of his natural-born life
Medical	Oct 1976	In October, 1976 (around 6 weeks *after* the actual event) Don was admitted to the British Military Hospital (BMH) in Hanover, West GermanyG for medical care… they worked on a few things, ending up surgically removing the radial head of his left elbow in January, 1977
Historical fact	Christmas, December 1976	Don’s Dad drove (via the ferry) with his Mum & brother Alan (age 8) to visit us for a few days (snapshot); we spent an afternoon at the nearby concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen… click to viewG?
Historical fact	Jan 1977 to Apr 1977	Don was transferred to BMH Greenwich in LondonG+(the Royal Herbert Hospital) from Soltau after his treatments in BMH Hanover, spending a period living there in the wards; he recalls meeting up with "Ginger" (who was from the Kings Own Royal Border Guards tour in Belfast) at some point during the stay-he cannot recall what had happened to Ginger but suspects he was shot in the leg Jane & Don also departed from their Soltau MQ at this time, driving our Hillman Husky to her parents house in EastleighG via the English Channel ferry from Hamburg to Harwich; we spent ~3 months in a small upstairs room there Don distinctly recalls Captain Sweetman probing his plan to drive with both elbows out of whack… concerned that Don would not be able to control the steering wheel in an emergency condition-he managed (thank Christ!) to successfully argue the case…
Medical	May 1977 to Oct 1977	After his time at BMH Greenwich, Don was transferred to the JSMRU, the Joint Services Military Rehabilitation Unit in Chessington, LondonGfor further treatment In the ~6 months he spent there (originally an Elizabethan farmhouse) with the therapy of working in the pool with floats a couple times a day, he actually spent carpentry time to build a usable table… it was in place at our middle-floor flat at 103 Central Hill in Upper Norwood (see below) and stayed with us as we moved on to our Albany Road house (below). Don has a number of other memories of his time there… a sadly brain-damaged lad who would chase after a physio girl, drooling; a guy named "Jock" without his left leg, clicking along the road; a discussion "Shall we just downgrade him to a clerk?" with subsequent (desperate!) discussions to try to avoid this! Don spent some time near the end of his treatment with a selection of possible retraining class(es), specifically Computers which became his life… Today, the JSMRU no longer exists as it was sold off by the MOD in 2004; a replacement was built in 2008
Residence	Mar 1977 to Oct 1977	While Don was stationed at the JSMRU, we were assigned to our 1st UK MQ, a 5th-floor placeon the Balham High Road in LondonGwhere Don drove to the JSMRU and back while Jane worked as a nurse We had to travel back to Soltau for a few days in April to hand back our MQ; our return to home was via Holland, where the tulip fields were endlessly amazing!
The Transition to Civilian Life
Military	10 Oct 1977	On a Monday at the Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire, EnglandG Don received his medical discharge after spending ~18 months with many, many doctors, who had unsuccessfully attempted to fix his broken arms… He was also tagged as 30% disabled, which today still provides a small pension
Residence	12 Oct 1977 to Mar 1978	After Don’s final Army discharge, we moved from our Balham MQ to our 1st personal middle-floor flat at 103 Central Hill, West Norwood, LondonGspending ~6 months there This address was actually captured from a copy of a letter that was sent to Don by his friend, Kim Nott in 1977; he’d retained the envelope, and shared that with Kim
Historical fact	Oct 1977 to Mar 1978	Don was luckily enough with his discharge to have been funded by the UK government for a 6-month stint at the Control Data Institute (CDI) in London for no cost, learning about computers and then graduating with honours!! In perhaps November of 1977 (the date is of necessity approximate, but is close) he was traveling beneath Brixton in LondonGon the tube up to the CDI in London and back, where Don recalls a specific moment when he simply got lucky: wearing his long brown coat, he was being pushed around near the tube door (not at all crowded in the tube) by what was likely a thug… the thug’s friend did say "he’s big" so perhaps that was why they decided to not kick the shit out of him…guess we’ll never know! Before graduating from the CDI, Don had started searching for a job, resulting in a successful interview with his 1st non-Army job at the Burroughs Corp. The team worked in the Midland Bank HQ at Staples Corner in London, off of the Edgeware Rd at the North CircularG Tim Bowler, who had assessed Don’s mechanical aptitude to successfully disassemble/reassemble a huge printer transfer box (full of dust & rust!), Pete Tinson (Don’s shift boss to-be) and others liked him enough to offer a job with 12-hour shifts on a 4-4-6 day rhythm!
Occupation	Mar to Aug 1978	Worked at the HQ of the Midland Bank in N. London; to be closer to Staples Corner, we moved into to our 2nd flat upstairs at 89 Fairfax Road in Haringey, London (a couple of miles from the Alexander Palace)Gin late March, about 20 minutes away from work
Address	Aug 1978 to Dec 1979	Don & Jane brought our 1st house (an end-row terrace) at 19 Albany Road in Upper Edmonton, and moved in during August of 1978; we lived there for a year & a half… his drive to work was around the North Circular for 20-30 minutes Today’s Google street viewGshows that our house & 4 others were knocked down as part of the construction of an Anglican Church school, which opened in 2017; a rear entry can be seen
Historical fact	6 Oct to 27 Nov 1979	Don was sent to the Burroughs Training Center in Paoli, Pennsylvania, USAGfor a 6-week training course that managed to lead to a disaster in his life… When he returned, Don had to move out of their Albany Road house to a flat at 33a Goldsmith RoadGwhere he stayed alone for 8+ months
Don's Transition to the USA
Arrival	9 Jul 1980	Having departed from London late in the evening on Wednesday, July 9th in 1980 after living with the many, many unmentionable events that occurred over the last several months, Don arrived for the 3rd time with his UK passport at the JFK airport in New YorkGin the afternoon, hauling a pair of suitcases that were each heavily-filled with his entire life that had been carefully filtered prior to his departure… A sad, sad day, retrospectively
Occupation	11 Jul 1980	Don moved from the job that he had in the basement of a national bank in London, England to working on *exactly* the same things (i.e. the 7700 computers) in the basement of the World Bank HQ+ in Washington, D.C, USAG
Address	11 Jul 1980 to Nov 1981	We moved into our 1st apartment, a 4th-floor place at 14111 Castle BoulevardGin Silver Spring, MarylandGstaying for a year or so Don changed jobs at this time from Burroughs to Fairchild Industries, working there for the next few years (see his history here?)
Immigration	15 May 1981	On Friday, May 15th, Don was blessed to receive his Green Card from the Immigration office in BaltimoreGwhich after living for 10 months as a tourist made him a resident of the USA… this remained in place for 320 months until his Naturalization was completed on Thursday, April 19th 2007 (see the event below)
Address	Nov 1981 to Jul 1986	We found and rented our 1st US split-level house in Sterling Park, Virginia,Gmoving out of our Castle Boulevard apartment in November 1981; we lived there for 2 years, with Don working for Fairchild We then found & purchased a newly-built end-row townhouse with a basement at 11483 Brundidge Terrace in Germantown, MarylandG, moving in around Nov 1983, where we spent 2 1/2 yrs
Occupation	Mar 1985	Don started his Creative Logic Software business as a Consultant
Don's Transition to working with GE in Wisconsin
Residence	Jul 1986	Don drove (overnight, ~780 miles) from their house in Germantown to Waukesha, Wisconsin over the July 4th weekend, moving into the Monterey Apartments+as he started working at GE1
Occupation	Jul 1986 to Jan 2009	Don worked at GE HealthcareGin Waukesha, Wisconsin for 23+ years… After starting out with a 6-month CLS contract where Don was working on some complex embedded firmware for the internals of an imaging device, he was offered a full-time job as a Senior SW Engineer in December ’86, which he accepted. He evolved over time to become an equivalent to a Black-Hat Computer Wizard, growing from his coding and team-lead roles to Manager, taking on a parallel role as a Program Leader, and then moving on as a Compliance Champion and to many others; tales of some of these may be told when Don finds some time! We then moved our family from Germantown to a rented half of a duplex at 21550 Jill Court in WaukeshaG in February 1987 and later found and purchased a house at 146 E. Greenland Ave in Oconomowoc, WisconsinG, moving there in May 1998; the house is a 100-year old Cape Cod with a really nice lake view (!) and access to the lake… was our house for 6+ years until Don decided he had to move on
Don’s Transition away from Ms. T
Historical fact	Mar 1994	In late March of 1994 Don was blessed to find himself connected with Sandy (his wife-to-be at that time); we were working together at a trade show in Coronado, San Diego County, CaliforniaG and both of our lives were delightfully changed forever by this event-we were married out there 3 years later on a Saturday, March 22nd, 1997
Residences	1994 to 2014	Without sharing too many of the transitions over our many years together, Don moved out of his Greenland Ave house to an apartment in Hartland, Wisconsin, living there for 9 months; we (Sandy & Don) then rented a Lake Keesus house near Sussex, WisconsinG for 6 months Around Don's 41st birthday, we purchased & moved into our house on White Oak Drive in Sussex, WisconsinG, a mature, large 4-bedroom house on an acre with nice woods (and skeets!), a basement, etc where we lived for 7+ years with many visits from friends and from all of our children We then sold White Oak as we built our new 3-bedroom house on 1.5 acres at Emerald Fields CourtG, moving in on November 2004 where we lived for 9+ years continuing our visits from friends and family View some history here?
Naturalization	19 Apr 2007	Don became a naturalized citizen of the United States on Thursday, April 19th 2007 in the Court House in Milwaukee, WisconsinG allowing the end of his Green Card time
Transitioning to Our Home in Georgia, USA
Address	16 Oct 2014 to date	We moved our lives south to the State of Georgia as our 2nd grandson was about to be born, renting a house for a year on Wittenridge Drive in Alpharetta, GeorgiaG and then purchasing and moving into our current house on Walnut Terrace in Roswell, GeorgiaG
Historical fact	August 2017	Don & Sandy purchased a Toyota Highlander that has heating / cooling seats(!) and a few years later an electrical car, a Nissan Leaf
Historical fact	2018	On a Friday morning of January 5th, 2018, a thought trotted through Don's mind as he stood up from the computer after working for an hour or so with a little groan… "better to be old than to be dead" - such a *great* philosophy!! He then searched for the phrase and found that George Clooney had said a couple years back that "…I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than[…]being dead" / sure felt nice to be aligned with someone famous ;)
Historical fact	May 2019	Don & Sandy spent 3 weeks in Italy,G where we caught several images; some are added here
Historical fact	September 2023	Sandy & Don took a 2-week+ trip to celebrate Steve Kerr's birthday in Scotland; see the trip with many images here?
A couple final thoughts…
Title	back a few years	Don’s grandson Max (who was just 4 years old back then) named him as "Grampy Don," a title that he’s today proud to bear!
Historical fact	2012 to today	Ahhhh! Don’s full-retirement life began in 2012 and continues today in Roswell, Georgia… simply loads ;) of full-time Thumb-Twiddling!! Thanks for your visit / hope you enjoyed it!!

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