First Name Kurt

Last Name Fisher

Spouse Jeannie

Address 13751 Cantlay St.

City Van Nuys

State CA

Zip Code 91405

Hm Phone (818) 782-0787

Email kingfisher22@gmail.com

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Q1 What are some of your positive and some of your negative experiences with modern technology?

I was dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century. What happened to dressing up for an airplane trip? What happened to using the “F-word” for something really important? What happened to Top 40 tunes you could sing in the shower? I have had to learn just enough about a computer to get into trouble, but I’m not smart enough to know how to get out of it. I have a cell phone that sits on the kitchen counter, and I think I’ve made 3 calls in 3 years. I don’t know an iPod from a peapod. And GPS was something that younger women experience once a month.

Q2 What are some of your most memorable experiences?

Somewhere in there, we took a 30-day trip to mainland China. Standing on the Great Wall was truly a great experience after having seen it in books and pictures and movies for so many years. After a day of observing the emerging driving habits of the Chinese, the stereotypical jokes proved true. It’s going to take them awhile to get the hang of rules of the road.

Q3 What fun activities/hobbies, etc. do you participate in?

Q4 What are some of the major changes in your life?

Where did I leave off the story? Oh yeah, I was packing my bag for the 45th reunion when after a week of fever and weakness, the family dragged me to the doctor only to find out that I had pneumonia. When he found out that I had been suffering for over a week, his quote of note was “With pneumonia, either your body fights it off and you get well, or you die.” I wasn’t getting better. It took a month before I could go back to the bar. It was this episode that determined that we were through with the bar business and retired the following January, following 40 years in the bar business. In retrospect, it was too early to retire, as I don’t find this “retirement” any fun at all. I’ve been trying my best to get all my physical ills under control, so as not to miss this reunion. I’ve been hospitalized three times with unrelated items and have become an expert on hospital food. I still suffer from spinal cord inflammation that makes my right leg numb, but I’m well enough to struggle through airports without assistance and chase the Chinese grandkids.

Whatever Charly did in his younger years, I outdid and continue to do so, and I missed the memo about Robert Frost. I’m still looking for an occurrence. The bar business makes you one of two things--either a teetotaler or a drunk. I am not the former.

Personal narrative 2011: Anxious to see everyone at the reunion and wishing all of you the best of health.