The first one lasted 40 years until I decided to sell Toye Corporation, my company and life's work (so far).

The beginning of the end came when I moved to Santa Barbara, 80 miles from the plant. I made the drive for six years. In the meantime, I discovered sailing. An exciting new challenge, and much more relaxing than the world of high tech electronic security. It was a great business with
distributors around the world so it sold quickly.

My new career would be goofing off, sailing, and tinkering with my old cars, a perfect routine so I thought.

But not so fast. My wife Sigrid had a better idea, so she rented an office for me in downtown Santa Barbara (known to my friends as World Headquarters) hoping to inspire more challenging pursuits.

I did find a challenging pursuit, and that was getting involved at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club; creating software programs to score sailboat races and becoming Webmaster.  Since no good deed goes unpunished, they made me Commodore in 2007.

So now I'll give Plan "A" another try; goofing off, sailing, and tinkering with my old cars. If that doesn't fly, maybe I'll start a new business.

Bud Toye
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