Happy holidays,
We are finishing
our 13th year in Livermore,
California. As the year draws to
a close, it is a good time to reflect, and be thankful for the wonderful family
and friends that we have in our lives.
Darryl is 21 and is a Senior in the Economics
program in the Revelle College at the University of California
San Diego. He will be graduating in June with a
BS Economics, Management Science degree. He is living with four other guys off
campus in a nice four bedroom condo in La
Jolla, CA. He is hoping to stay in the San Diego area after graduation because he
enjoys the warm weather down there (or the non-weather as Dad calls it.
Brandon is 23 and is living and working
in Pullman, WA. He still enjoys the rural life in Pullman. He is planning
to re-enter Wahingotn
State University
next year to complete his Civil Engineering degree. Dana visited this fall for
the annual Dad’s weekend football game. It was nice this year because it didn’t
snow during the game, even though the Cougar’s lost. Susan goes up and visits him in the spring
during the WSU Mom’s weekend. This year we hope to go golfing up in Idaho together.
Susan continues to be the Pharmacy
Manager at the Livermore Safeway. She obtained her Hawaii Pharmacist’s license
this year. She was in Hawaii
a couple of month’s ago when they had the big earthquake on the Big Island.
She has lived in California for 13 years, Oregon for 6 years and
has never felt an earthquake. She goes to Hawaii for 3 weeks and gets a 7.4. She had
many friends and her mom come over and visit with her while she was “working”. She
continues to walk a couple of miles each day with her Livermore Walk Squad and has
taken up decorating plant pots.
Dana still continues to work at Sanmina-SCI.
He is the Director of Product Engineering and is responsible for the
coordination of engineering. He is still on the Industry Advisory Board of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at WSU.
His travel was pretty steady this year. He spent New Year’s Eve on an American Airlines
flight off of the coast of Japan
heading for Singapore via Tokyo. Now that he’s been
to the Beijing China area, he can eliminate that from our potential retirement
sites. There is a lack of electricity in that region, so the factories are not
heated or air condition. The plant in Wuxi
got up to 42 degrees INSIDE while he was there. No employee space heaters are
allowed. Thus, everyone is at their computers typing with gloves and coats on. China is an
interesting place right now. You can see the old ways and the new Western ways
starting to emerge and conflict. He did a test on Google and verified that the
internet is heavily censored there. He continues to donate golf balls to
courses and still looks forward to breaking 100 on a consistent basis (more
than once per year). He continues to be a diehard Oakland Raider and WSU Cougar
fan. Unfortunately, they will be saving us money on post-season tickets again this
year….
Our big
trip this year was to pick-up Susan’s new BMW in Munich at the BMW Werks Plant 1. We went
there in March via London and drove the car
across Germany
(it only took a couple of hours at 90 – 100 MPH on the Autobahn). We spent a couple of days in Munich
and then drove over to the Rhine river area west of Frankfurt.
We stayed in some very interesting hotels/lodges. We took a ferry across the Rhine river because the navigation system gave us a rout
for the”shortest” distance. We had the best meals that we have had anywhere in
the world at an old hunting lodge outside of Rüdesheim. Susan got to see many
old castles and get pictures of them. We then stayed in Karlsrühe and had dinner with one of the people that Dana works with. Then
we returned the car to BMW shipper and waited until May to get it. BMW made it
a wonderful experience and we would recommend it to anyone.
Please come and visit us if you are in the San
Francisco/San Jose area and visit our website. We still continue to get
contacts from Korf’s all over the world.
Dana,
Susan, Brandon & Darryl Korf www.korf.com
(925) 373-9954
Dana: dana@korf.com Susan:
susan@korf.com Brandon:
brandonk@korf.com Darryl:darryl@korf.com