You never know what someone will teach you in your life. "You can't help me, only mommy can because she is the teacher," My daughter was having difficulty with doing her math assignment and so I offered to help her in this situation as math was one of my favorite subjects. This turned out to be the most classic remark my former daughter said to me before I left her life. Mommy was the teacher...and I will provide a small example of mommy educating her daughter...as seen below:
Above represents how Judy Saint and Christopher Saint presented a book they co-authored and made it available on Amazon back in the early 2000s. Now, it's important to realize that if you got an autographed copy of their book, they wanted the purchaser to know it was priceless. And if you got an autographed copy of their book, by the authors, it was even more priceless. OK, that seems reasonable.
At the time that I discovered this book on the internet, there were only two book reviews that were attached to this book titled "IC Layout Basics: A Practical Guide." One book review was submitted by a person named Jack Pryor and the other book review was submitted by a person named Michelle Payne.
What's interesting about all of this is the fact that Judy Saint-whom at the time, has a daughter named Michelle Payne-whom at the time, attended the College of William & Mary. She also has a son named Jack Pryor-whom at the time, identifies himself as R & D engineer, Medtronic-a fact I wasn't able to verify.
What are the odds that the two book reviews, seen above, were submitted by individuals who have names that are identical to the names of children she has? I was so riveted by this revelation that I found myself contacting the College of William & Mary to let them know how clever Michelle was in submitting a book review for her mother and suggested to them it might be a great idea to add a 12 week course on " The art of having good ethics," to their curriculum. I never received a response from them. LOL
Now, there is more interesting stuff to this story above, which is below. I recently (2025) searched Amazon for this same book called "IC Layout Basics: A Practical Guide," and discovered that the original two reviews I have revealed above, no longer exist for this book-why not? Now, when you do a book review history, what currently shows up are approximately a dozen reviews along with these two reviews as seen below-submitted on the same date:
The original JACK PRYOR comment is no longer available anywhere (and if it does, I couldn't find it), and the new JACK PRYOR comment above is the only one I could find currently available today. Jack Pryor supposedly submitted his new comment on April 20, 2002...the same date that John Bullock submitted his comment. Both comments generated a "5 people found this helpful," on Amazon. Jack Pryor started his first comment at the top stating "You're absolutely right- it is a Bedtime Engineering Book." And on April 20, 2002 his new comment stated "This book truly is a "Bedtime Engineering Book."
Also worth mentioning is the comment from Michelle Payne I wasn't able to re-locate and apparently it is no longer available...maybe it is but I just couldn't find it. Yes Michelle, I can't teach you because only mommy can. Mommy has proven time and time again just how dishonest she was and probably still is and she showed her daughter that being dishonest doesn't matter as long as it helps a person get ahead. It appears Michelle has cuddled the niffty teachings that Mommy has ladled into her life. LOL
There is a story to tell pertaining to the writing of Charles Nordby's book about Raley's in 1991 and how it impacted my life. And by the way, I guess it can be said it was me who wrote my dad's book from the letters he sent my brother Jack.
Yes, it was me who assisted my dad in writing his book. I spent many weeks on our computer trying to decipher what my dad was saying in his letters that he mailed to my brother Jack from his Lake Tahoe residence...actually, Judy wanted me to know it was her computer. It was me who came up with many of his catchy phrases, etc., inside his book. Plus, I made many suggestions to him about what he should have in his book. The "To The Reader," page is what I told him to include-and to start off by saying "It has taken me approximately 13 weeks to complete my book..." along with his "questions and answers," section. Jack provided the quote from Chuck Collings seen below:
However, it was Charles Nordby's life-long truth that he provided which became the main ingredient to his book.
Yes, it was an enormous amount of stress I had to deal with in assisting my dad in writing his book. I was the only child he had who had the means to help him. Judy was totally unreasonable about me assisting my dad and adamant that I did not help my dad with his book. I had to stay up late in our home office without Judy knowing and secretly spend my time on my dad's book.
We had just purchased a new "turbo style computer," which was also loaded with a WordPerfect word processing program and this was the software that I used to put this book together. There were many times I lost every thing I had typed because of a glitch in the system that required me to start all over again in this WordPerfect program...it was just insane.
Finally, after another bout of arguing with Judy concerning helping my dad write his book, I decided it was time for me to leave this life/marrage or aka crazy situation because a woman was convinced that my dad was lying about his Raley's story and she did not want to be sued...wow, she was calling my dad a liar. I just never shared this story with her for the many years we were married.
I spent a lot of time under extreme stress putting together my dad's book about Raley's. My dad was sending his story through the US mail to my brother Jack and then Jack would provide it to me. I already had Judy objecting to my dad's story and also objecting to the fact I was assisting him in getting this book about his story completed. Once again, I had never shared this story about my dad and Raley's with Judy for the nine or more years we were married. And then when she heard it, she didn't believe it.
When she saw the faxes I was sending to Chuck Collings and Raley's on a daily basis, she freaked out and thought we were going to be sued. We received a notice from the post office that there was a certified letter waiting for me to pick up. I told her that the certified letter was probably from Raley's. Her only vision at this time was we were going to lose our assets in a lawsuit and I kept trying to convince her that will never happen.
I told Judy we weren't going to be sued because my dad's story was true. She refused to listen to reason and then she completely lost it by coming up with her own letter to fax Raley's and making it appear the letter was from me by having me sign this letter. Her letter that she faxed to Raley's was basically a humiliation towards my dad and down playing his story about his employment with Raley's...she was making it appear in this letter that I was apologizing to Chuck Collings and asked for his forgiveness. I couldn't believe that Judy would humiliate me like this, and then without my dad knowing, humiliate him too. She demanded that I would not pick up that certified letter. I hadn't picked up this certified letter until after Judy faxed her letter-with my signature-to Raley's...and so Raley's probably at the time thought I had read Collings' letter and was scared shitless...by what they read in Judy's letter... which they thought was from me. LOL Had they checked the return receipt signature and date of Collings certified letter they would have realized that the date I picked up Collings certified letter was days after Judy sent her fax to Raley's. You can't make this story up....LOL
I shared with my brother Jack how my wife Judy turned into a raving maniac about our dad's story here in Sacramento and then Jack suggested I get the certified letter waiting to be pick-up at the Post Office so we could see what Raley's had to say to me. I did pick up the certified letter.
Wow, Chuck Collings responded back to me for only one reason: Lie about our father and then threaten me with a lawsuit if I continued to spread falsehoods...wow, he was going to receive a rude awakening.
I finally decided-enough is enough. I left Judy with only our home computer and went to stay with Jack who lived in Sacramento. This move of mine freaked out Judy and she demanded that I return "her" computer...and I told her I would return "her" computer when I was finished helping my dad. I finally finished the book and Jack was successful in creating a book cover for my dad's book. My brother Tom, Charlie and Jack proof read the book to catch any errors. There were a number factual errors but they were corrected. Oh, it should be noted that no book printers in Sacramento would assist us.
We had a copy company provide us with a large number of copies. Our first copy of the book was delivered to Joyce Raley Teel. I then hand delivered copies of this book to many news media personalities in the Sacramento area...i.e. Stan Atkinson, etc.
I made arrangements to meet Judy with my two children so I could return her computer to her. I gave Michelle, Jack and Judy a copy of Grandpa's book...and she got her computer back...see ya.
It's not a bed time engineering book but it became
Above is the home that Judy owned when we were first married. located at 6508 Larry Way. It was a small home that we lived in for nearly, I believe, seven years? I liked this home and I ran on the streets of North Highlands and occasionally at the track of a North Highlands high school. It was considered a high crime area. I am not sure what the crime situation is today. I believe Judy stills owns this home.
8917 Royal Gate Way, Elk Grove, CA
This is the home Judy purchased (me as a co-signer) in 1989 so Judy could be closer to the new job she was about to take working for the Elk Grove School District's middle school. This would be the first job she held outside of the home since the two of us were married. With the loan for the home, the purchase of a new water purifying system, such as reverse osmosis, and having a backyard swimming pool put in that was heated by solar panels was all it took to make me believe that I would soon be seeking out a second job. May I add a little secret to all of this purchasing craziness? The pool company Judy hired to put in the pool eventually were so overwhelmed by Judy's demands that they actually refused to continue on with the job and left before it was finished thus sacrificing the remaining payment they would have received had they stayed and finished the damn pool...but to them, they know when they are in hell and when it is time to leave.
In addition to all of the above, I don't want to forget to add the $3000 rug she purchased for the hallway entrance and the expensive pool table she purchased for one of the large empty rooms. Yes, Judy was going to need a good paying job, which would be added to my job, that would help pay for this fancy upgrade to our lives in beautiful Elk Grove. OH, she got me to stop playing on the pool table by her constant complaining about me leaving cue stick chalk on the pool table felt...that I would always brush off after I was finished playing.
It really wasn't a surprise to me that after I left the marriage she saw the necessity to get counseling for her control issues which she skillfully used to open the exit door for me to leave through. We should have just stayed in North Highlands to live a simple and stress free life.
However, I never felt secure in Elk Grove...for some strange reason. At this time, Elk Grove was mostly a rural area and the home that we purchased was in a brand new construction area called Camden Passage. These were very nice homes. So when I ran, which was 10 miles a day, it was on long and lonely roads in the Elk Grove area. I always felt like I could be an easy target for somebody who saw me running out there and didn't like me. I know that is being paranoid...but I had to be smart about where I was running.
This is a picture of a 1989 Honda Accord. It is very similar to the car that Judy bought herself when we moved from North Highlands to Elk Grove in the year 1989. Even though we were married, she bought this car for herself so that she could start her new job as an Elk Grove middle school teacher which was approximately a mile from where we lived. Now, I was taking a 20 mile commute to Sacramento in a 10-year-old Datsun that car I had purchased before we were married.
Judy was adamant in telling me that she didn't want me to drive her new car...in which I never did drive in the remaining few years of our marriage. Because my Datsun was aging and I was the person who really commuted to work, we decided to get me a different car and we found a newer used car to purchase...and to this day I do not remember what it was.
In 1990, (around this time period), I obtained two Morgan silver dollars minted back in the 1880s, while working for Lucky Stores. They were in excellent condition. I gave one of the silver dollars to Michelle and gave one to Jack. It's been around 35 years since I gave each of them this silver dollar. Do they still have them today?
Or did Mommy end up keeping them for herself?
Before my dad passed away, he visited me at my workplace and wanted me to know that when he got his settlement from Raley's, he wanted me to have 1/3 of it. I looked at my dad and told him "I don't want your money, all I want is for you to be taken care of." Raley's destroyed this man's life by cheating him and I wanted my dad to know I was more than happy to assist him regardless of what I went through to accomplish this...
