This is the picture card,sent at Christmas
This is the picture card,sent at Christmas
We are going to cancel our CompuServe address, and use our new home email - address: kiyomi@ct-sv.com or Stan.Hutchings@LMCO.com. So please change your records accordingly. We now have a web page: www.ct-sv.comso fire up your browser and take a look!
We're still using the workhorse Micron Millennia we got in 1997, and the business computer with Japanese Windows 95, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. The lap-top went with Alan to UCSB. It's getting toward the time to start thinking about a replacement - with a DVD, a TV receiver, a CD-RW, a 56k modem—maybe next year.
Our family outings this year included a ski trip to Utah after Christmas; a weekend in Carmel, CA in February; a ski trip to Lake Tahoe in March; several trips to prospective colleges with Alan; then Stan and Kiyomi took a long weekend trip to Mt. Shasta and the surrounding area, and home down the coast from Eureka via Highway 101; and ski trip to Utah scheduled for the end of December. So 1998 was another very busy year.
Alan graduated from Paly and a lot of friends and relatives helped him celebrate. He had a chance to visit his girlfriend's relatives in the Vancouver area in July. After visits to UC Berkeley, Davis, and U of Colorado, he chose to attend UC Santa Barbara. However, after the first quarter he will take an academic break and try to get on the US Olympic team for the Tae Kwon Do event at Sydney in 2000. We hope he can achieve his dream; it will require many sacrifices and great dedication on his part. But this is his chance to pursue a dream. He will try to teach Tae Kwon Do, and attend Foothill if possible.
Aya continues at Foothill College, taking courses like Intro to Calculus, Statistics, Computer Programming, International Business, etc. She hopes to transfer to either UC Berkeley or Santa Clara University, as a Junior in the Fall of '99, as a Business major. She continues working at Joan & David to earn spending money and gain experience in the business world. In May she went to Hawaii to attend a friend's wedding, in August to Cancun (with Prairie) for a week. Then she celebrated her 21st birthday in Las Vegas, NV in October.
Kiyomi went to Japan several times to give seminars to Japanese executives and to visit her relatives. She also gave numerous consultations in the US, including Alaska, and has acted as liaison to groups of Japanese executives, government representatives, and educators who wanted to investigate US companies or educational facilities. She gave an on-line lecture as part of a joint Internet project with NY City College and the Japanese government. She continues to play tennis in her spare time.
Stan continues for his eleventh year at Lockheed Martin, working to make the Laboratory Information Management System even better, and doing the chemical analyses of process baths used in production of solar cells, and other hardware used on commercial and military missiles and satellites. He continues to read science fiction, computer magazines, and science articles. He likes to bicycle to and from work when the weather is nice. He is a member of SPAUG - see our web page at http://www.pa-spaug.org/.
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