I've been reflecting on Father, of course. He lived through an unrepeatable time in US history. In about 1948, he was the eleventh employee of the Hughes Aircraft Company. Still at Hughes, he headed the laboratory that developed the geo-stable satellite in the late-1950s. From Hughes, we took a senior position in the Defense Department but continued to shepheard the development of the geo-stable satellite system that today enables modern telecommunication. I'll stop, but the rest of his life was about that interesting and it's been (shall I say) "curious" to be tangentially associated with him. He was 100% mentally acute until about two weeks before he died. He was still writing in his last book until four days before he died. For those interested, you can look him up on Amazon: John H. Rubel and in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Rubel).
I thank each of you for your truly warm and supportive sentiments.
Robert J. Rubel, Ph.D. (Dr. Bob), author, educator and photographer is an educational sociologist and researcher by training. He currently has eleven books in print and two DVDs (Books: five on Master/slave topics, two on advanced sex techniques, one on fire play, and three erotic art photo books. Additionally, he has produced two educational DVDs: one on fire play and one on beginning impact play).