Musings of a Geezer

Hmm. I’m not very sports oriented.  I’ve participated in some sports, but I just don’t have the reflexes and timing to be a good athlete.

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Tennis – 1970′s – Major mediocre.

Paintball – 1985 – I’ve never run harder or farther in one session.

Jogging / Running – never.

Did the exercise course in Midland for a few months.  Walk, do an exercise.  walk some more, another exercise.  Fun til it got boring.

Karate – 1980s – Brown belt in Tae kwando – Green belt in American Kempo.

Pickleball – 2010.  Just discovered this.  Active like tennis but not so far to run.

Bought tons of exercise equipment ( for resale in garage sales ).

I’m decent shooting pool and I’ve even tried billiards.  I’ve owned two pool tables.

I scuba dived while I was stationed in the Pacific.  Flunked my NAUI certification.

Ping Pong

As I reflect back on my past 61 years, it occurs to me I’ve done a lot of stuff.  Some of it major some of it minor/trivial.  But the thing is I’ve done it it.  I’ve always been a seeker of new things to do.  I don’t want to go to my grave with a big ‘bucket list’ of things I never got to do.  So I thought that this would be a good place to document with one liners some of the things I’ve done in my life…so far.  I may at some future date come back and expand on a given topic.  If you see something that intrigues you, just post a comment and I can expound on it in a separate post.  Since I’ll be doing this in spurts, don’t be surprised if I list something twice (or more).

Dates are best guess.

I got my pilots license – 1999.

I’m a green belt in American Kempo and a brown belt in Tae Kwando – 1986.

I was in the USAF for almost 4 years stationed in Missouri, Hawaii, and Johnston Island – 1971.

Got married – 1971.  Got married – 2001.

Had a son – 1975.

This was a sleeper I had never heard of.  I just saw a description that intrigued me.

The plot is sort of like The Matrix.  The main characters appear in three different stories as different characters.  The three stories are intertwined and the intriguing part is figuring out how.  But it is “an intellectual” picture and the plot gets confusing quickly.  But for me, that was the fun part – trying to figure it out.

The acting is excellent by all three main characters.  However I was very impressed with Melissa McCarthy (Gilmore Girls).  Her character was very likable and it felt like she got best dramatic parts and really pulled it off.

So overall I give this movie 8/10.  Definately a must-see.

This is a hilarious video.  The guy in the video was the lead actor in the Firefly / Serenity series – Nathan Fillian.  The girl is a porn actress – Aria Giovanni.  The website that describes the make of this is here.

Nailing Your Wife

Timber!!

This is the tree that was hit by lightning. The tree service guy told me it would take a couple of hours tops. It took them seven hours but they finally got it down. He and his helper were two tired dudes. The city will come by later in the week to pick it up. To more pictures of the various stages of it coming down go to my Flickr group.