Bio:  Current

Hi my name is Paul. I am currently living in Stockton, CA since 1990 with my wife Lisa and two of my step daughters Pamela and Laurel. For the last eight years I have been working at LustreCal Nameplate Corp. as a digital die cutter.

Bio History: Origin & Timeline to Present

Born and raised in San Diego, CA in July 25, 1956 at 6:08 am. Interestingly this date coincides with the historic event of the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria. My father was a teacher at Grossmont High School. while I lived in El Cajon, CA, my parents moved to Davis, CA for a few short years while my father attended UC Berkley. We moved back to Kappa St., La Mesa where I attended Lemon Ave Elementary. At some point we moved into my grandmothers property on Dillon Dr., La Mesa, CA.

My father moved up in the educational system and we moved to San Mateo, CA where he worked for the San Mateo Unified School District. where we lived on Yorktown Rd. for a year or so and then moved around the corner to Lexington Ave, where my backyard was against the open space where the CA I-280 freeway began construction. I attended Highlands Elementary to continue my early schooling. keeping active my sister Anne, and I swam for the Highlands Recreation Center swim team. At school I first learned to play cello for a year taking private lessons and then found a greater intrest in the trombone continuing with private lessons.

It was late in 1969 when my father took a job in Washinton DC as Special Assistant to the Associate Commissioner of Primary and Secondary Education. So we moved again to just outside of the beltway to Springfield, VA. with a few months left in the school year I finished up elementary at Cardinal Forrest Elemetary. Continuing with trombone lessons I improved my skills, joined the local Virgina Patriots Marching Band, and eventually particapated in the Cherry Blossom Festival. My 7th & 8th grade school was Washington Irving Middle School in Springfield, VA. Among other events in my life I had 4 theeth pulled and a shiny new set of braces to straighten my teeth. Again for the brief two year period I made new friends and then moved again in the summer of 1971 to Clarkston, GA.

While in Georgia, I recieved a learners permit at age 15 and learned to ride a motorcycle. My first bike was a 1972 Suzuki TS185 J Sierra. I attened Clarkston High School (a five grade school at the time, 8-12) with my sister. Moving to a new school brought new challenges. One was with my intrest in music. although my love for playing the trombone had taken me to new levels of reading and writing base clef, when I enrolled in a class elective of band at high school. For the first few days of class I sat in the room along with all the other students, and for three days the teacher never asked me my name or what instrument I played. With a fit of ignorance and a cloud of invisibality I dropped the class and never played again. Within a year I was on the move again, as my father changed jobs.

By now I was used to living in large cities, and with a clueless move I ended up in Irmo, SC, a sprawling suburb of Colunbia. I remember turning off the main road from Irmo, it was a shady two lane road that threaded its way down a small hill and back up a mile or so to a new subdivision in the middle of nowhere (to me it was BFE).