About the Author

The author is a retired hotel night auditor.

At the age of 21, he worked as a computer programmer for the Bank of Hawaii. Two years later, he was a refrigeration plant operator for the County of Los Angeles. Later on, he bought a grocery store in Mexico, and eventually wound up selling boiler feedwater chemicals there.

It was during this period that he found his niche in the hospitality industry. He started as front desk clerk, progressed to night auditor, then on-property accountant, and finally settled in as night auditor for 20 years or so. During this time, his work was recognized 4 times by the receipt of the Employee of the Month award (unusual for Night Auditors.)

He was briefly a church director, has been a church treasurer for six years, and is an ordained minister.

In the early '70s, he became interested in biochemistry, and followed its study as a hobby. (It was not until 1997 that this idle pastime would prove to be useful when his wife was diagnosed with adult onset diabetes.)

In 1978, he began RS Brown, Technical Services, which has been involved in a variety of projects since its inception:

1. He designed and built a fuel-oil gas generator.
2. He made plans for a tortilla machine and built a scale model of it.
3. He assisted in a scheme to fortify tortillas with vitamins. To this end, he built a computer-controlled vitamin feeder, established procedures, and oversaw testing.
4. He designed an English-as-Second-Language computer program.
5. He produced an innovative low-income housing scheme.
6. He authored websites, hypertext projects, one CD ("Tiny Linuxes"), an experimental protocol designed to test the hypothesis that Passiflora can disrupt the opiate abstinence syndrome, and a video game ("Widget Trader").
7. He wrote several business plans (Polyglot 121, Computer Fun Centers, Brute Force Systems.)
8. He maintained a commercial website for 5 years.
9. He made plans for a 3-story, 8,000 square foot building, and built a model of it.
10. He published "How We Beat Diabetes", the story of how his family reacted to the challenge of type II diabetes.

He lives in Hemet, with his wife of 40 years, and their 5 children.