Just to let you know I am not much of a God believer anyway, just stating a few things he supposedly said once upon a time.
Found out about 3 months ago my kidneys are about 20% shot and I have to go in March this year to get a biopsy and study that and see if they can do anything for me otherwise. I guess we all have to check out someplace down the road and we sure don't have much choice in the matter. Me I wanted to die chasing a 16 year old girl down the street and just when I get hold over have a big heartattack and end it all right then with a smile on my face...at age 95..
I have a young friend who will take my ashes out to the Atlantic ocean and dump them there for me when the time comes and hope it is quite away as of yet.
I promised him my complete workshop and all tools and some other items that I have stored away, now he has to get his workshop built to make sure he gets them. If not guess they will get auctioned off and the money goes to someone in the family if my wife is still here she will get it.
So I have my funeral arrangements made for the furnace and paid for so no one will be burden with that expense.
Here are somethings that happened to me along lifes road.
I broke my right big toe playing basketball at 16 in high school, at 21 I came down with Chron's diease(inflammation of the intestines), got booted out of the Navy for this after 7 years 1 month and 20 days service and while in the Navy hospital had to have my rear end worked on due to a fistula around the anus, then I had a gut operation a year later and they took out 5' and this included about 10" of the large intestine. 2 years later I had another gut operation and had a bypass installed around the duodenum area, then about 20 years later I had to have another 2' wacked out and still no bag. Lucky me on that issue. Next I had a sinus operation, then a right shoulder rotocuff operation, fell off the roof and broke my right arm and my last one so far had my damn tonsils removed at 73, don't try this not fun...
Over these years I got married 5 times too. Yikes...my first wife at 21 years of age started telling me what we were going to do so I got out of that after a year. 2nd one lasted 20 years and had 3 daughters all are doing good in life, I had a couple years of no wife then got married to a drinker who would not quite partying as I partyed too but after a couple months would not drink anything but she insisted she wanted to so we parted ways, about a year later meet another gal and we were hitched for 10 years and she started having some mental problems plus she got running around on me so we ended that too. My present wife and I get along great and we have been married since 2003 and still going strong. Ah what a life.
I have built musical insturments along the path and still doing that now and then, banjos, mandolins and guitars. I spent the better part of my life working for universities as a machinist, vacuum tech and operations manager. 30 years with them off and on. I also spent some time building radiation curing equipment for making plastics, plastic bags, saran wrap, curing ink on paper products, and once even for diapers super absorbent. I also have been in construction work and rebuilt two of my own houses. I installed all the woodwork, plumping, electrical, sheetrock and insulation. Not and easy job when you are working full time and doing other things. I lived on about 4 hrs. of sleep a day for years. I owned 3 music stores with my wife helping on running it while I worked at the university but I would have to go there and do all of the repair work to keep things rolling. Never made a damn dime out of any of it.....
I gave that up in 1995 and don't want to do that anymore at all. Dealing with the crazy people that play insturments can get under your skin at times.
I spent lots of money on computer equipment but have enjoyed playing games since 95 also and still enjoy them. Right now still have 3 working computers and a laptop my wife bought. I have stuff that I must get rid of that is taking up room here....
So anyway I am still kicking and hope I will be around to montior the site for quite sometime to come.
Here are couple shots I modeld for my buddy that might show up on the Gander Mountain outdoor catalog, these were taken Tues. this week
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