Hawktawk wrote:Nice River . I don’t get involved in asking permission to move a post so I figured it belongs here . Just something to change it up a bit . Have a great Sunday !
c_hawkbob wrote:Everybody has access to this forum as well as the main forum. Rather than move this one we have in the past started a post over there with just a link to this thread.
I know all the regulars know me, but for those that don't I'm a 65 year old dad, grandpa and power plant operator living in Kentucky for the past dozen years. Originally from Edmonds & Linnwood. After a stint in the Navy as a submarine mechanic, Nuclear waste (Failed out of Nuke school, sent to the fleet as a conventional machinist mate on Nuke subs). After the Navy lived in the Mountain West (Utah and Colorado) till I moved to KY. Used to be hard core into muscle cars (in chronological order: 67 Charger, 66 Charger, 67 LeMans, 69 RS/SS 396 Camaro, 72 Chevell, 70 Judge, 70 AMX) until I started driving 4x4 trucks to play around in the mountains. Now I have a more streetable 4x4 and family car for the wife.
Started posting on line around 2000 at the PI forum and Seahawks old forum (State of Football). Used to write a lot longer more in depth posts but after a few years of undiagnosed SOSA made it too tough to maintain focus and hindered ready access to information in my head I tend to be more concise and less frequent with my posts. Like friendly bragging rights type contests (three deep, pick'em and survivor). Having lived everywhere but Seattle since 77 I've ony been to one home game but try to take in as many away games I can (driving distance anymore, hate flying), really pissed me off when the Lambs left St Loo, that was an annual must attend away game for me. Some day I'll take a long train trip back up to the PNW and catch a home game.
Hawktawk wrote:Wow we had a few things in common . Particularly cars . My first was a
67 Lemans I installed a 421 tri power out of a wrecked GTO with a Muncie M22 Rock crusher 4 speed . I wrapped the speedo around to 20 mph , probably 150 . 67 Belvedere GTX 440. 69 super bee ram air 4 speed . 68 and 69 chargers. 70 Chevelle SS 402 4 speed . 70 firebird . 74 Corvette Roadster . The car I almost died in was a 1979 Chrysler 300 based on the Córdoba but 100 % police pursuit vehicle with a 360 police special , dual cats and police suspension . It was quite a cool car and my first new one . The Chrysler safety engineering worked to a tee in my head on . I woke up with a sheared off steering column and an engine that had submarined beneath the floorboard and was sitting beside me under the console . I had amnesia , a severe fracture of my arm and seat belt cuts through 3 layers and a horrible memory of a dead guy laying on what was left of my dash . The troop still could not believe I was alive .
Later in life I’ve owned modern muscle , mostly dodge hemi powered vehicles . Currently my wife owns a 2014 srt grand Cherokee equipped with a supercharged methanol injected 6.4 hemi making 750 hp. It will do 0-60 in 3.1 seconds and 12 flat in the quarter . It’s hers but I get to punch it now and again .
I also hate to fly . Also started on the PI in 2000.
Hawktawk wrote:Love to some day . River and I have threatened to hook up a few times but so far whatsyourprob is the only guy I ever met and had beers with back in the first super bowl season . Interesting but unforgettable part of my Hawks journey .
RiverDog wrote:
I haven't forgotten about my commitment to get up there and visit you sometime. The wife and I sometimes will take a short overnight trip to one of the campgrounds on the lower Snake, and your park isn't that much further away.
RiverDog wrote:I haven't forgotten about my commitment to get up there and visit you sometime. The wife and I sometimes will take a short overnight trip to one of the campgrounds on the lower Snake, and your park isn't that much further away.
Hawktawk wrote:Yes that would be fun I think if we stay off Geno There's tons of options up around legacy for RVs and the greens fees are on me. Fishing, hiking , boating, quite a fun area.
Hawktawk wrote:With all the negative bs going on in the world and with our Hawks I thought it might be fun to get to know each other beyond debating sports and politics . It’s easy to form impressions online but I’ve literally been talking to River and CHawk Bob and Sista and others I’m sure for over 2 decades . So I’ll go first . Maybe first and last and in the dead zone
I’m 62 , born ass first and blue with an umbilical cord around my neck in Wenatchee . My dad built dams and bridges and I moved constantly . I was very intelligent but a terrible student . My highlight was being part of the 1974 state championship coulee city Rams . We had 8 shutouts in 10 games and gave up 18 points in the regular season winning the championship over the only team that beat us. I bounced around working industrial construction including the interstate 205 bridge where I was a labor foreman at 21. I survived a head on collision on highway 14 that killed the occupants of the other car on dec 30 1981. Rehabbing I did outside sales and briefly attended Bible college considering being a preacher . I fell into golf management in 1982 on a little executive 9 hole in Ephrata not even knowing you had to change the cup placements . 5 courses and 36 years later it’s what I do better then most . I’ve spoken at seminars , invented processes . It’s not been the most financially rewarding but I have 4 of the guys I mentored at their on own courses now . As an adult I’ve had a divorce and a second marriage that’s lasted 30 years . 3 kids , one a son who was the product of an affair my first wife had .I discovered I was bipolar after 51 years of life which helped . I love to sing including kareoki write and play music and have 3 tracks in my catalogue on music row in Nashville waiting for some star to record them . Gold fever , the whiskeys gone and ballad of the prodigal . I love hot cars and have had too many , hot boats and my Hawks . I think a lot of people I spar with on this forum would like me quite a bit in person .
So how about you ?
mykc14 wrote:I think it would be awesome to meet up at a Hawks game sometime. Somebody should set that up!!
mykc14 wrote:With all the negative bs going on in the world and with our Hawks I thought it might be fun to get to know each other beyond debating sports and politics . It’s easy to form impressions online but I’ve literally been talking to River and CHawk Bob and Sista and others I’m sure for over 2 decades . So I’ll go first . Maybe first and last and in the dead zone
I’m 62 , born ass first and blue with an umbilical cord around my neck in Wenatchee . My dad built dams and bridges and I moved constantly . I was very intelligent but a terrible student . My highlight was being part of the 1974 state championship coulee city Rams . We had 8 shutouts in 10 games and gave up 18 points in the regular season winning the championship over the only team that beat us. I bounced around working industrial construction including the interstate 205 bridge where I was a labor foreman at 21. I survived a head on collision on highway 14 that killed the occupants of the other car on dec 30 1981. Rehabbing I did outside sales and briefly attended Bible college considering being a preacher . I fell into golf management in 1982 on a little executive 9 hole in Ephrata not even knowing you had to change the cup placements . 5 courses and 36 years later it’s what I do better then most . I’ve spoken at seminars , invented processes . It’s not been the most financially rewarding but I have 4 of the guys I mentored at their on own courses now . As an adult I’ve had a divorce and a second marriage that’s lasted 30 years . 3 kids , one a son who was the product of an affair my first wife had .I discovered I was bipolar after 51 years of life which helped . I love to sing including kareoki write and play music and have 3 tracks in my catalogue on music row in Nashville waiting for some star to record them . Gold fever , the whiskeys gone and ballad of the prodigal . I love hot cars and have had too many , hot boats and my Hawks . I think a lot of people I spar with on this forum would like me quite a bit in person .
So how about you ?
It is awesome that you won a ring! Nice work! I'm still chasing mine. I've been close but haven't sealed the deal yet. Also, my grandpa managed a golf course at JBLM for decades. I remember as kid him taking me out there at night to do maintenance- move sprinklers, change hole locations, stuff like that. As a kid it was cool being out there with my grandpa, but I always that it would be an interesting line of work. Looking at those perfectly manicured greens and fairways is very satisfying!
Hawktawk wrote:I coached 3 rd 4th and 5th grade grid kids 15 years ago when my son was coming up. Great times . I was too intense and I insisted on running the WCO with 3rd graders . I’d give the QB half the field. It was a sad day when my kid bailed out of sports in 7th grade .
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