Ron Cole is a brilliant man who thinks of himself as an ordinary guy who is just trying
to make sense out of life. In this hilarious memoir, he recounts a lifetime of absurdities.
He grew up in a wealthy Dallas neighborhood, pretending to belong there. He escaped to San
Francisco as a young man, and dabbled in a variety of jobs before finding his niche working
with main-frame computers, where he quickly earned a reputation as a wizard.
Except for brief excursions as a carpenter, a butcher, and a 13-cent an hour realtor,
he consulted in computers for 40 years.
He married, fathered two children, and raised them in a Victorian house that he restored in the Castro
district of San Francisco. Well, before the Victorian, there was that house in Fairfax with the lion
that lived in his young daughter's room under the dining room table (really!).
This lively, fast paced story recounts the people and situations that shaped his life. Along the way
he encounters a famous blues man, an internationally acclaimed opera singer, a murderous boss and a
rock star who calls him "weird". More importantly, Ron is loved by a wide circle of friends, and he
loves everyone except politicians and bureaucrats.
He eventually retired to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State, where he wrote these memoirs.
He now makes his home in Utah, where he enjoys creative cooking, coffee with friends, and gets his
daily dose of absurdity from watching C-SPAN.
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