{"id":2,"date":"2009-04-13T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T16:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-11-02T03:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:45:06","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sue and I met at Rockwell in the early 1970s, but we were both married. We got together again in 1985 during Rockwell&#8217;s Space Station proposal activity, and we married in March 1988.<\/p>\n<p>We retired in March 2007 after 75 years with the Boeing Company. Retirement is the point at which a person stops working completely. While most people worry about &#8220;adjusting to retirement,&#8221; we fell into it immediately. The next day would be proper!<\/p>\n<p>We are so busy these days that I am often tickled by the thought of going back to work to rest (not!). Part of retirement is working on our website, which is a collection of humor and observations about retirement (aka being old). Please enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>The Lord took my precious Sue in February of 2020, and I was devastated, having lost my sidekick of 35 years!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_187\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilesnet.com\/huntington\/2009\/index.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187\" title=\"huntington_gardens_april_2009_999\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2009\/04\/huntington_gardens_april_2009_999.jpg\" alt=\"Sue &amp; Paul Enjoy Afternoon Tea At The Huntington Library\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2009\/04\/huntington_gardens_april_2009_999.jpg 750w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2009\/04\/huntington_gardens_april_2009_999-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2009\/04\/huntington_gardens_april_2009_999-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue &amp; Paul Enjoy Afternoon Tea At The Huntington Library<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sue told me in no uncertain terms that should something happen, either of us should move on with the support of our families.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2020, I asked a mutual friend out to dinner. Dr. Mary C\u00f4t\u00e9, Sue, and I have known each other for almost a quarter of a century. The dinner was just a simple &#8220;Hey, how&#8217;s it going?&#8221;, but over a year, it blossomed into a full-scale romance. On the first anniversary of our first date, we got married at the same restaurant with a small group of friends and family. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/marynpaul\/wedding\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join the fun!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55436\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55436\" class=\"wp-image-55436 \" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2021\/07\/us-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2021\/07\/us-1.jpg 520w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2021\/07\/us-1-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2021\/07\/us-1-352x562.jpg 352w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2021\/07\/us-1-94x150.jpg 94w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happily married 7\/28\/2021<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We are so happy that the Good Lord sent us in each other&#8217;s direction.\u00a0 We decided to she the past and move into a new home in Orange, and after a few years, <a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/marynpaul\/newhome\/valencia-changes\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mary transformed the house into our own love nest!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70103\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70103\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70103\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-18-021-650x867.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-18-021-650x867.jpg 650w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-18-021-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-18-021-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2023-06-18-021.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-70103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We have been married for about three years now.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/marynpaul\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>You can read more about us on the website.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sue and I met at Rockwell in the early 1970s, but we were both married. We got together again in 1985 during Rockwell&#8217;s Space Station proposal activity, and we married in March 1988. We retired in March 2007 after 75 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?page_id=2\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91669,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/91669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}