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m ot ion p ictu re s o u n d e d i to r s I 53 best thing he ever did. He too had a job he loved, worked with people he liked ,and the end results were rewarding but for him, retirement was better. He told me, "Chris, I wake up in the morning, roll over, look at the clock and decide if I want to get up or sleep another hour." You can stop right there old man, I'm sold. Like many here in Southern California, he worked in the aerospace industry. He worked on the Surveyor which was the first thing we ever landed on the moon. Creative, challenging, grown-up work. Still retirement was better. Losing my mom at a young age might have skewed his vision maybe making him realize how short our time here is and how fragile it all is. A butterfly flaps its wings on the other side of the globe and your young wife gets cancer and dies. Looks like it might have skewed my vision too. I've long held the view that life is short. His big beef was having to be at a certain place at a certain time day after day. I get it. Thirty-plus years of getting on that goddamn freeway every day was old. I realize that was a hell of my own making. I picked where I lived. I wanted my kids to have the suburban walk to school childhood I had. What I foolishly didn't factor in was not being home for dinner for most of their lives. You of course, know that our hours are different than the hours a normal person works. It was a rare day when we got off work before seven o'clock. The old 9.7 and 11.2. Working even later was not unusual. Add the commute and it was only around the summer solstice that I got home before dark. Now that the kids are grown and out, I'm home every night for dinner. Bad timing. Braveheart: 1995 Golden Reel Awards. Front: Karen Baker and Dan Rich 2nd row: Per Hallberg, Lon Bender, Hector Gika, Scott Gershin, Sarah Goldsmith, Mark LaPointe 3rd row: Craig Jaeger, Craig Harris, Phil Hess, Chris Assells, Chris Hogan