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Imponderables: Oh Baby...

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UPDATED: Tuesday, July 6, 2010 17:46
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Monday, June 7, 2010 4:32 PM

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Originally posted by averyfinecompanion:

Not to sound corny, but thank you for all the info. I really do appreciate you telling me all that. It’s good to know I won’t be in this rut forever.



Phew! I typed all that out and was like 'dude, stop being all "buck-up, little camper." I'm glad you took it in the way intended. When I was younger, I never thought I would be where I am today.

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Monday, June 7, 2010 4:35 PM

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Originally posted by RugBug:
Phew! I typed all that out and was like 'dude, stop being all "buck-up, little camper." I'm glad you took it in the way intended. When I was younger, I never thought I would be where I am today.


There's a good ponder. Where did you see your life going when you were around 18?


Mine is easy. The tech boom was on and I was on the road to get into that business. I thought I'd be making easy money and living it up in silicon valley. Stupid bubbles bursting.

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MSA
Monday, June 7, 2010 8:21 PM

I thought I would be an anthropologist or a drama teacher or a biochemistry... took me a while to pick a major

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Monday, June 7, 2010 10:03 PM

I had no clue. I wanted to be a horse trainer but knew that wasn't going to happen. Interior Designer was always high on the list.

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Monday, June 7, 2010 10:20 PM

I was sweating the draft. The Vietnam War was still very raging and I was A-1. I found a techincal school that would give me an education and a deferment. So my idea of future was in months and not years.


http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Monday, June 7, 2010 10:54 PM

Gotta agree with Traveler on the "Months versus Years" thing. Never gave much thought to making it another five years but plenty time that have past and I feel a bit lost. Had no clue all that has happened ever would.



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MSA
Monday, June 7, 2010 11:57 PM

Which is what makes life such a grand adventure. I

Also sleeping baby is the best smell ever. Kind of baby powder mixed with sugar and sun

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010 12:19 AM

There are times I feel it would have been better to have gone to Vietnam. I would have been a grunt. My grades in highschool were very poor and I doubt I would have been given much of a chance to learn any trade in the service. I wanted to be a tool maker. But with the draft hanging over my head no one would hire me as an apprentice. I only had days to make choices back then. I had already passed my physical and was waiting to get called up.

What a joke. I am 5'-6" tall and weighed 125 pounds back then. Can you see me humping it through the jungle with half again my weight straped to my back.


http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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MSA
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 7:59 PM

Well erally I can see it traveler.. you bent double looking vaguely like the hunchback of Notre Dame


Lunch happiness= giant salad...mmmmmmmmmmmmm

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010 10:13 PM

When I was 18 I saw my life going nowhere. I had no idea what I wanted to do, didn't really see myself ever being in a position where I could be properly independent or anything. I wasn't an optimistic kinda guy.

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