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To: Mannie who wrote (26740)	3/2/2017 12:42:44 AM
From: JimisJim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

I thought that looked familiar... my aunt has lived on Lake Washington since the mid 1950s... my uncle was head of the Math dept. at the university (was deferred from WWII working on the math of naval architecture)... that is such a beautiful area, my fav of many nice Seattle areas (my super rich early MSFT emplyee ((#200 something)) cousin still lives in a Architectural Digest for Greenies sort of place, I forget where, but on the water -- plus a mtn. he owns w/ranch a few hours east of Seattle, plus a chateau in France overlooking Switzerland and Lake Annecy (which is the French part of Lake Geneva)... he retired with over 3-figure millions when he was 34 -- had the advantage of going to the same school as Gates who personally recruited my cousin... though brilliant and who literally lived in his office on MSFT campus, working 80-100 hrs a week, no vacations, he attributes his fortune to luck -- he has a point -- but he also was in charge of re-engineering and bringing Excel to market (after MSFT had bought its precursor) -- that was his first project at MSFT and "invented" his job title in tech... oddly, he always used a Mac to create MSFT software...