Up until now, Alex Panasenko has been a slave laborer in Nazi Germany, a factory worker, a soldier in the US Army during the Korean War, a graduate student in Entomology at UC Berkeley, a science instructor at Berkeley High School, and a bartender. In only a few more years, he will be one hundred, at which point he plans to decide what to do with his life. In the meantime, he is biding his time cooking for wife Sally and dog Lucy in Portland, Oregon.