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05-08-2024, 07:07 PM | #47 |
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05-08-2024, 07:28 PM | #48 |
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Too many to count but it does affect ya if smart. Guess my 3rd time kicked in.
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05-08-2024, 07:43 PM | #49 | |
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05-08-2024, 08:02 PM | #50 |
My work speaks for itself!!!
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For me, it was when I confessed to my mother that I had killed a man.
I told her. Mama, just killed a man Put a gun against his head , pulled the trigger now he’s dead. Life changing moment. |
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05-08-2024, 08:06 PM | #51 |
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Most of my moments involve someone or thing trying to kill me and failing so that's probably why you guys get what you get from me.
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05-08-2024, 08:08 PM | #52 | |
Bono & Grbac wasn't enough
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05-08-2024, 08:12 PM | #53 | |
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Lol, yeah, my first thought was, "just one?" I must've had at least three "wake-up calls" in my life, each taught me something slightly different. But at least I did learn from them, and eventually learned to extrapolate consequences, so I didn't need any more "wake-up calls" after the last one. |
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05-08-2024, 09:25 PM | #54 |
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Here ya go
The pic that nearly got me killed Dome of the rock David’s tower Israeli truck at the Lebanon border. One like my shirt and allowed me to get in and take a pic Pic on the kibbutz down past the Dead Sea and 100 or so from the Red Sea |
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05-08-2024, 09:38 PM | #55 |
In Search of a Life
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Are there any adults in the world (or certainly here) that can honestly say "no" to this question? The amount of stupid shit I did when I was younger is mind boggling. Can't believe I didn't die or kill someone else (would've been way worse). Thankfully I was able to get enough second chances to finally take advantage of one of them and got things turned around. But there is a thin line between that and ending up on the wrong side of the dirt.
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05-08-2024, 09:48 PM | #56 | |
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Lol I guess just sit there and pout about it Last edited by RealSNR; 05-08-2024 at 10:29 PM.. |
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05-08-2024, 09:52 PM | #57 |
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Yes, running with the wrong kind of people for too long. Doing dangerous shit. Lucky I didn't get myself shot or dead. Found my out and took it.
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05-08-2024, 10:47 PM | #58 |
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I was in 7th grade math. The teacher used a hybrid group-independent study approach. All of the best performing students were in the top group, the next four best students in the next group and so on. Every couple of weeks the groups were resorted according to performance. I'm naturally a procrastinor and at that age a daydreamer. By the 3/4 mark of the school year I had slid to the bottom group in the class.
My teacher pulled me aside and told me I was in danger of funking. And then he said the words that have stuck with me to this day: "cdcox, between you, me, and the gate post, I know you are not giving any where near your best. You're capable of so much more. It is up to you to put forth the effort." That is one of the top 10 most important moments of my life. I felt like I had been exposed and could no longer hide. I started spending a couple of hours every night on learning 7th grade arithmetic. I raised my grade to a respectable but not spectacular level. In 8th grade we started algebra and my mind engaged in a way it never did with arithmetic. Never looked back. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. |
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05-08-2024, 11:43 PM | #59 |
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Top 6 most fork-road moments of my life:
1. I was at a college party freshman year. DJ played "Riding the storm out" by REO Speedwagon. I wanted to dance. I asked a girl to dance I had been scoping --in a non-creeper way -- all night. Together for 44.5 years and married for almost 41. 2. I was about to graduate in engineering, in a recession without a job or a plan. I saw a bulliten board ad for a graduate research assistant in environmental engineering to study flocculation in water treatment using polymers. I didn't know what flocculation was, but I looked it up in the dictionary. Decided to contact the professor who was advertising the position an that set my career in motion. 3. I was working in industry at the interface between engineering and marketing. It was made known to me that I could get a promotion along the marketing branch to a position reporting to a VP at the age of 27. I thought, "I don't want to do that." Second thought,"okay, go ahead and turn down this opportunity, but what do you want to do?" Several months later I was headed to a PhD program. 4. Fast forward. I am now a professor and hold an entry level admin position under the department head. I'm good at it and I love it. I get offered an opportunity to lead a center where I will be in charge. My own boss, my own budget. Within a 10 minute window, I express reluctance to take the new opportunity because l love what I am doing to sending an email indicating that I wNt to do the new position as long as I can keep doing my current admin work. 5. See post 58 in this thread. 6. I'm interviewing for a position at a major petrochemical company. They put two positions on the table, I was very interested in one of the positions and less interested in the other. I made my preference clear and probably indicated an in flexibility that cost me the offeer. |
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05-09-2024, 06:12 AM | #60 |
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I've had a few since turning 50.
1. Quit smoking cigarettes 6 years ago, 1 week before my 50th. 2. I just celebrated 90 days alcohol free. 3. Since September of last year, I've lost 58lbs. (I still have another 50 to go to get to my target.) I was dangerously close to 300 My only regret is letting myself go over the past 10 years, but it's never too late to work on yourself. |
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