December
11, 1994
The
exciting news from the Frisinger household is that Diane is getting married.
The wedding will be next August. The
exact date has not been determined yet. The
lucky man is Dan Hay. He is
thirty-one years old and owns a company that installs suspended ceilings for
commercial applications. He is an
avid fisherman and enjoys living in cabins.
He would like to live in Alaska some day.
Robert is still dating Amber Argraves but no wedding plans have been announced so far.
Ava
has formed a
firm called Green Heron Consulting. Through
this 
organization,
Ava has two contracts with the City of Issaquah to do work related to growth
management planning. She would
rather be mayor, but it is a nice consolation to be getting paid more by the
city than the mayor is.
I am still making regular short trips to Florida to visit mother
sometimes accompanied by Diane or Ava. On one trip Ava and I were able to get
over to Clearwater to visit Ava's Father and Stepmother.
Diane and Robert also went down to visit their various relatives down
there. There most exciting experience was hitting a busted truck tire while
driving across the state on Alligator Alley.
It turned out that the only damage was an opened fuel filler cap.
I can not envision how that could happen either so do not ask.
Ava
and I spent our winter vacation at cross country ski resort in Mile House in the
interior of British Columbia. We
shared a Shelly with our good friends, Walt and Peggy Johnson.
The skiing, weather and food were all great.
This
year I finally got up to David Whitaker’s island mid season so I did not have
to help with opening or closing. That
is definitely the best way to go.
I
am still being kept busy at Boeing. My
current project is doing loads analysis of a 757 when we put a F-22 fighter
forebody on the nose of the airplane and some stub wing like things on top of
the body above the main cabin door. The purpose of the project is to test the
electronics including the various radar and other sensors that will be going on
the F-22.
Our
home remodeling continues. Robert is still working on an upstairs bathroom and
promises it will be done by Christmas. I
hope he means Christmas 1994.
Robert
graduated from the University of Washington last June with a Bachelor's in
History. He had hoped to enroll in
the Education program at Western Washington University but they were over booked
and turned him down. Robert is now
looking for other jobs. He spent a
couple of months this year working as campaign manager for Katherine McNeil who
was running for the State House of Representatives.
If she had won, a job would have materialized, but no luck.
Let
me again pass on our favorite books for the year.
Ava's favorite was “A Political Life” by Madeleine Kunin.
It is an autobiographical account of the author's experience as governor
of Vermont. Robert’s favorite was
"Tourist Season" by Carl Hiassen.
It is a comedy mystery set in Florida.
Amber's favorite this year is "Little House on the Prairie"
by Laura Ingells Wilder. Diane
liked "Beloved Exile" and "Fire Lord" both by Parke Goodwin.
They are Arthurian legends. Dan's
favorite was "Chaos and Order" by Steven R. Donaldson, a science
fiction story. My favorite books
were "The Negotiator" by Frederick Forsyth and "A Dangerous
Fortune" by Ken Follett. Both
are action adventure types.
Have
a good Christmas and may Christ be with you in the coming year.
Rev 6/19/02