40 years ago today.....................................
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Ahhh, forty years ago would find me 15 years old and in the woods hunting, during deer season and riding dirt bikes all day, when it was not. Weekend nights were for hanging out at the local putt-putt golf course, because that's where the girls were and because they had a gokart track when the girls weren't around. That's about the time, I stopped being a kid. The next year I went to work and never slowed down. Life was good.
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40 years ago, white trash just upgraded to a 3 room log cabin on the far side of the native rez way out at the end of the road of NW BC, almost AK. An old Elan skidoo shared with my brother, and shooting squirrels when I was supposed to be hitting the outhouse and back inside to school.
That was some of my schooling at that time and later on at Ocenaeering......
Prior to the 80's there were no diver certifications required for the Gulf of Mexico off shore industry. A bit of a slow down in the oil patch and then they waited us to have "Certifications".... By the time I gathered all the certs and returned to Louisiana the oil industry had crashed...
Funny story.... When I showed up at College of Oceaneering with my rig truck (Louisiana plates) and photos of the oil patch.... The majority of my long term friendship were with the instructors rather than the students. Every weekend there were welding projects for instructors and the school... And from that point on a lot of job offers around the world in the diving industry.
Went to Oceaneering in Morgan City and the only person there was the project manager, everyone else was laid off and gone.
Life...... ?
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Hmm, slinging dirty dishes into a 12 foot long dishwasher, slogging to class in soaked shoes, dumpster diving for “extras”, meeting my future wife, overnight cramming ( both kinds). Would not go backwards, but was important
39 years ago today I was a young Marine in Okinawa Japan suffering the worst hang over I’ve ever had.
40 years ago today I was coming back from our honeymoon, getting ready for spring semester as a junior in college. Still happily married today. Kids are grown and both doctors. Life has been good but not the way I thought it would be. Thought I was smart enough to make millions. Didn't happen.
I'm a long ways from doing it all. But I have worn out a lot of body parts. Wearing a sling for 4 more weeks after shoulder surgery. It was worn out.
Photos or it did not happen.
Scars are like tattoo's.. except they have better stories.
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Was TAD in Da Nang when Christmas Bombing 72 took place. Think there was like 15 B-52’s shot down over a couple of weeks. 51 years ago ? So young , so dumb. 
Dude... is that a Seiko Willard? Because I had one of those at the time! My first decent watch! Bought at Service Merchandise. I still have it!
Cheers,
Sirhr
I'm pretty sure it was. Served me well. When I went to welding full time I put it away, somewhere. To this day, I have not found it.
Very cool! If you find it... get it restored. They are probably the coolest watch of the era!
I got mine from Service Merchandise c. late '70's and wore it until I got a quartz Tissot in 1983. Which I wore until I got a Rolex in 1992... My Willard is sort of one of the best watches I ever had and still have! Of course, at the time it wasn't a 'Willard." It was a Service Merchandise Seiko for cheap... ;-) I loved Service Merchandise. The stuff all came out on a conveyer belt! My old man bought our first Betamax there... Bah ha ha hah aha... loved the '80's!
Sirhr
Our first computer came from there. Saved me thousands. (A financial program allowed us to see how much we were loosing in the horse business.)
Ah... you had Visicalc!
I knew Dan Bricklin in the late 1990's. Launched another company for him. It sort of flopped. But Dan Bricklin was a super cool dude.
Cheers!
Sirhr
I was fours years into a five year tour.
Who are you and why are you handing out eggs on tranny day?
Sirhr
Sorry… post popped up for some reason and I just looked at the last picture of the first page. my bad. What were we talking about, man? Hunter, stop vaccinating yourself…
I myself have bought HEB roses.
I remember one time all I bought was a dozen roses and a can of whipped cream. The young female cashier saw it and laughed and so did the women standing in line behind me.
I couldn't get out of there fast enough.
I can still remember push brooming the drill pad at 4am 32 years ago, and the couple of young kids that got caught fucking behind the dumpsters, DS had the entire platoon sneak out form up and clap when they came out from behind finally and pulled up their shorts.
