John A. Wills
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What can you want to know about me? That depends on you, but the following may be of interest.

I am approaching normal retirement age, but a lustral of unemployment (about which you can read more in my book Albatross) in Britain and 18 months of little and low-paid employment in California mean I should wait a while longer than most people. Fortunately I like programming and currently have a fairly secure-seeming job.

My wife has left me, so a lot of my personal planning centres on getting her to come back. That is one reason for living in San Francisco, her favorite city. She lives in Los Angeles, which she has said she hates (it is also bad for my lungs). She runs marathons, and you can find more about her by Yahooing "Sharlene Wills" - she has more entries than I have.
We have a son, a Doctor of Mathematics from UCSB. He has a yearning to teach, and has done so at UCSB, at Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington of baseball fame, and now at Weber State University in Ogden of the Utes. You can read about him here.

Some likes

A film I would like to see again is La Vie est une longue Fleuve tranquille; (about some people for whom it suddenly wasn't). I also want to see Cathy Morgan, in which my late friend Greg Denzler starred (not as Cathy) and The Different Couple; both seem to be out of circulation.
Some of the music I like best comes at $10 a CD in the Lifescapes series from Target.I also have Dvořák's New World on cassette tape, and quite a bit more I like.
I recently unpacked a lot of vinyl and so bought a 4-speed turntable to listen once more to Foote's string suite, etc.

Where I sometimes think I would like to be.