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Hey, a blog! I probably won't write much here but figured I might post something help people get know a little. For the past 12 years I have been a sole-custody single parent after the unexpected passing of my wife. My youngest is now over 18, has a job, has his own car, is getting ready to start college in the fall, and I can get a little "" time now. I have two , both are still living home but the oldest only off and on. She will be moving into the dorms college this fall as she transitions from the local community college the University. Politics: Is boring. My grandfather and father were both small business owners in a rural area about evenly divided politically. Their politics was private between themselves and the voting booth. this I have no idea which party either of them belonged. My views come mostly from my dad. He said "there is more that binds us together as community than divides us through politics and there is no sense in alienating half of the people around you". We took both a right leaning and a left leaning paper when I was a . I once asked my dad why we took two papers. He said "because both are lying to you, mostly lies by omission. So you have to take both papers to find what the other one isn't telling you." I enjoy travelling but haven't had a chance do much over the past several years. When I was a young man I spent several years in the Army and most of that time was spent in Germany (both what was at the time West Germany and Berlin). In my 20's I often vacationed in Florida, usually in May before the schools let . that time I was living in the Washington DC area. I then moved to Southern California before going back home when my dad became ill with cancer. After he passed, I moved to the "Silicon Valley" area where I have been living since 1996. Now it is time to get out a bit and enjoy life. Personality: I am a fairly stereotypical Myers-Briggs ENTP personality type. I don't do dogma very well. "Consensus" doesn't carry a lot of weight with me and I don't feel a need to go along with positions just to be accepted by a group. Thinking more along the lines of that of Richard Feynman gets more respect from me. Interests: Arts of just about all sorts. History, especially contemporaneous histories of events written at about the time events occurred rather than histories written years later colored by cultural changes that have occurred since. We too often judge past events by today's cultural standards and fail to view them by the cultural standards in place at the time. I tend to go into pretty deep independent research on subjects that interest me when I have the time. One of my interests right now is the conditions in Asia (and Europe, actually) that set the stage for Japan's expansion in Asia prior to World War 2. I also enjoy the outdoors, tend to like the mountains and forest more than the beach. I also enjoy good food, good wine, h-o-t springs, and the desert night. Oh, and I like girls ... a lot. I am very open-minded but not so open that my brain falls . I am very tolerant of other points of view and lifestyle choices and do not demand that others make the same choices I do. Just because someone makes a different choice doesn't mean I experience that as invalidating in any way of my choices. I also don't try to "convert" people to my point of view nor alienate people who do not share it. Oh and I do not talk about other people's business or to speak for them so I am not a particularly good source of gossip or a consumer of it. |
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Nice blog SanJose. You have a wide range of interests. Nice to see a blog such as yours about life instead of all the political stuff. I applaud you....
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Welcome to the blogs!!!  You've lead an interesting life, and I'm sure it will get more interesting or at least different as time goes on~~~ LOLOL
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So it also looks like the automatic filters delete the word h-o-t as in when I used it in my blog post in the context of liking h-o-t springs.
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GOOD OLD HIRAMHANK IS AT IT AGAIN. IGNORE.
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Damnit kids, don't make me stop this blog and come back there.
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7/9/2019 6:19 pm |
ET that' a fantastic buildup for yourself. But why trash me in doing it? LOL He already said he has been (around the internet ) & knows the ropes. You can be out front I don't care. But unless you are seeking employment-----a diploma on the wall is equal to toilet paper but too stiff for that. LOL Party On!
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7/10/2019 3:40 am |
I thought I was reading Mr. Clean meets Snow White who decides to dump the dwarfs. LOL Party On!
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7/10/2019 11:24 am |
ET Stop--have A Dr Pepper ---relax every now & then --it is only the internet. With less worry you may be In SFF another 25 years. LOL Party On!
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