Have You Seen This Man?

Message exchange from this morning between and a former Orange County Register (where I worked 1990-93) colleague and me:

Me:

Hey! Do you have any idea what ever became of our part-time colleague named Rob? I can’t even remember his last name but he popped into my head this morning.

Her:

I remember him (and how he wasn’t shy about farting aloud—!). Just woke up, so let me think a bit and his name might come back to me.

I know this could sound like I’m mixing his last name up with Walter’s, but I’m not—was it Rob XXXXX?

Me:

It’s funny because that was my guess but I worked with a Rob XXXXX at DJN so I wondered if that was clouding my memory!

Can’t positively remember any other distinguishing things so it’s going to be a hard one to search online!

Med school wannabe? Indian wife? Seal Beach?

Or maybe just younger, needy wife? 🤣

Her:

Young but such a receding hairline that he kept his remaining sandy-blond hair very short; a little tall (by usual standards—he’d have been short by my 6-foot-plus family’s) and in early dad-bod mode; soft, bearded jawline; no glasses; very smart but a little smug

And the “needy wife” rings a bell, though I’m sure I never met her

I remember him being the first (and almost last) person to tell me about the book “Iron John,” and I’m pretty sure he was into the fad of drumming (kind of a New Age guy thing)

Me: 

We just need someone to draw a police composite based on this information!

UPDATE:

Her:

Me: Did you do that? 

It actually does resemble him, although the hairline is rather generous lol

Her:  Yeah—it’s hard to draw smug, intelligent but dorky simultaneously

And it’s REALLY hard to draw stubble

Me: But what a memory; very impressive.