Class of 1982

Um, yeah. I doubt anyone listed here remembers me, with the possible exception of Rick Bottomley and maybe Marcia(Goth)Braden. I'll bet Brian Shioya remembers me too, cause I was definately a Tsunami fan(I think I still have a t-shirt in a drawer somewhere). I'll be brutally honest and say I remember very few of the names listed here. I'll have to go pull out the year book and see if I can match the faces to the names, then add 20 or 30 lbs plus some wrinkles and hair loss to get an idea of what you look like now. Back in the day I was a stoner and hung out in the smoking area a lot. I used to hang out with Kevin Hart, Eric Robertson and Earl Davis. I'm also linked to other Live Oak grads such as my brother Chris and my sister Donna who married Scott Latham and my cousin Julie Vawser who married Rhett Hall. I was thinking about how it will be 20 years soon, so I did a search on yahoo to see if a reunion was being planned. That's when I came across this page. My time at LO was actually pretty painful emotionally, since I was such a skinny dweeb. But I did manage to get a girl friend (finally) by Jr. year. Tracey McCain, class of '83. That turned out to be pretty painful emotionally as well, do you see a trend developing here? After graduation I went to USC, University of South County otherwise known as Gavilan, which was like extended high school. I was on the 9 year plan and finally got my BS degree in Industrial Technology from SJSU in 1991. As you can imagine there was lots of partying and basic flakiness along the way(see emotional pain mentioned earlier). During that 9 year period I married Mary Ann Gonzales, which lead to more emotional pain and divorce. She was such a hottie, but everyone else thought so too, so she wound up cheating on me and by 1990 we were history. No hard feelings though. I hear she is married with children now. Professionally I've worked in the Semiconductor Equipment business for the last 16 years. I have done a variety of things working at Applied Materials, which is based in Santa Clara. Most recently I was a Mfg. Engineer for 3 years before taking a postion at Applied's internal training center. I'm now a technical trainer serving the Engineering community at Applied's manufacturing facility in Austin, Tx. I've lived here since 1993, mainly to escape the high cost of living in the Valley. I pretty much figured out the emotional pain thing and I'm now happily married to my wife Tracye who I met in Las Vegas roughly ten years ago. We have a son Josh who will be two soon. I am still an A's, Raiders and Sharks fan and still go to as many games as I can when I travel to the Bay Area. My hobbies include motorcycling, rebuilding Volkswagons, mountian biking, snowboarding(hard to do in Texas)and playing bass in garage bands(ear plugs required!).