Ping pong thread Odd jobs and things you have done
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1) 6 year stint in a certain Special Ops unit, broke (gentled in my book) horses as a teenager and trained ponies for two-wheels Sulkys. Army 1SG in a place where you work a mile underground.
2) Parachuted out of a certain 3 letter agency's aircraft. A week at a road racing course doing high-speed driving, Pit moves, J-turns, and ramming through roadblocks. Saw the Tour De France....but in Germany, 1987. Trained a Tennessee Walking Horse/Shetland Pony mix that I could drive all day in the cart by verbal commands only. He'd also come when I whistled, shake hands (hoofs) with you, and run along side me for miles as I ran until I gave him the command to "Go"! Oh, and turned down a photo op with President Bush (Jr.) at the end of my career as I was working on some important things for a couple of my guys. Regret that seriously now.
3) Fighting Gobblers. Don't laugh, LOL!
2) Parachuted out of a certain 3 letter agency's aircraft. A week at a road racing course doing high-speed driving, Pit moves, J-turns, and ramming through roadblocks. Saw the Tour De France....but in Germany, 1987. Trained a Tennessee Walking Horse/Shetland Pony mix that I could drive all day in the cart by verbal commands only. He'd also come when I whistled, shake hands (hoofs) with you, and run along side me for miles as I ran until I gave him the command to "Go"! Oh, and turned down a photo op with President Bush (Jr.) at the end of my career as I was working on some important things for a couple of my guys. Regret that seriously now.
3) Fighting Gobblers. Don't laugh, LOL!
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1. Final 'career' was in Assisted Living - Administrator and corporate marketing. All the clients were vintage, most classic to boot.
2. Traveled to the beach at Palaiokastritsa, Corfu, Greece. Hooked up a 'touring' Euro/Aussie bunch of hippies. Ate fresh octopus, drank abundant wine, learned the goat dance, and some Danish words late at night ..... the rest is kinda fuzzy ....
3. Graduated H.S. ....the rest is kinda fuzzy.
3a. Here is my mascot when I Certificated from UC - Santa Cruz, Wide Area network management (early Internet vintage)
UCSC Banana Slug. - I got the t-shirt, too. I think the above mascot was the MBA program's version.
2. Traveled to the beach at Palaiokastritsa, Corfu, Greece. Hooked up a 'touring' Euro/Aussie bunch of hippies. Ate fresh octopus, drank abundant wine, learned the goat dance, and some Danish words late at night ..... the rest is kinda fuzzy ....
3. Graduated H.S. ....the rest is kinda fuzzy.
3a. Here is my mascot when I Certificated from UC - Santa Cruz, Wide Area network management (early Internet vintage)
UCSC Banana Slug. - I got the t-shirt, too. I think the above mascot was the MBA program's version.
06-10-23, 02:11 PM
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06-10-23, 03:29 PM
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1. Piledriver and piledriving estimator; Campagnolo Technical Support prior to and at 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, later as technical representative for the western US; Materials Control Coordinator for City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works then for Los Angeles World Airports. Responsible for Quality Assurance of materials and fabricated items used in City and LAWA construction projects. Performed and directed inspection at sources and fabricators world wide.
2. Designed fishing rod blanks around 1968 - 73 for SoCal style saltwater fishing. Had TruLine make the first short (6’) rods which created a demand that led to other manufacturers offering their own.
Caught fifty-two (52) California yellowtail, total weight of 1100# (no typo), in about six hours, hooking them off the bottom in forty (40) fathoms of water off Baja California.
3. Venice High Gondoliers
2. Designed fishing rod blanks around 1968 - 73 for SoCal style saltwater fishing. Had TruLine make the first short (6’) rods which created a demand that led to other manufacturers offering their own.
Caught fifty-two (52) California yellowtail, total weight of 1100# (no typo), in about six hours, hooking them off the bottom in forty (40) fathoms of water off Baja California.
3. Venice High Gondoliers
06-11-23, 08:41 AM
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none of the above. I actually found it in a thrift store in Moro Bay and just liked the banana slug , plus Santa Cruz California is such a cool town. I had a very close friend in Half Moon .
06-11-23, 09:19 AM
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Since spinal fusion and surviving cancer 3 times I have made it to National Ski Patrol Senior and Instructor and still run my carpentry business of 23 years. I’m riding a bike again and am doing bike patrol at a park.
06-11-23, 10:59 AM
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1) 6 year stint in a certain Special Ops unit, broke (gentled in my book) horses as a teenager and trained ponies for two-wheels Sulkys. Army 1SG in a place where you work a mile underground.
2) Parachuted out of a certain 3 letter agency's aircraft. A week at a road racing course doing high-speed driving, Pit moves, J-turns, and ramming through roadblocks. Saw the Tour De France....but in Germany, 1987. Trained a Tennessee Walking Horse/Shetland Pony mix that I could drive all day in the cart by verbal commands only. He'd also come when I whistled, shake hands (hoofs) with you, and run along side me for miles as I ran until I gave him the command to "Go"! Oh, and turned down a photo op with President Bush (Jr.) at the end of my career as I was working on some important things for a couple of my guys. Regret that seriously now.
3) Fighting Gobblers. Don't laugh, LOL!
2) Parachuted out of a certain 3 letter agency's aircraft. A week at a road racing course doing high-speed driving, Pit moves, J-turns, and ramming through roadblocks. Saw the Tour De France....but in Germany, 1987. Trained a Tennessee Walking Horse/Shetland Pony mix that I could drive all day in the cart by verbal commands only. He'd also come when I whistled, shake hands (hoofs) with you, and run along side me for miles as I ran until I gave him the command to "Go"! Oh, and turned down a photo op with President Bush (Jr.) at the end of my career as I was working on some important things for a couple of my guys. Regret that seriously now.
3) Fighting Gobblers. Don't laugh, LOL!
here is the sugarbeeter (sugabeets were a key crop, with a plant refining sugar in town. I hoed sugarbeets in my early years in high school. No longer grown in Chinook area due to freight costs.
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06-11-23, 03:10 PM
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My son lived for a time in Hesston, Kansas where the mascot was the Swathers. AGCO has a huge factory there where Gleaner combines and Hesston hay swathers are the main products.
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Love it a lot of these where I grew up also....lots of irrigated alfalfa hay
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Fortunately, wikipedia has the explanation.
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06-13-23, 12:05 PM
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Army service, E5, Honorable Discharge.
Rock band roadie in SF from 1968 to 2010, I have smoked a joint with Jerry Garcia, gone mountain biking with Bob Weir, and when I met Janis Joplin, she was wearing red panties and sandals.
In 1976 I put on the first mountain bike downhill race.
In 1979 my friend Gary Fisher and I rented a garage to build bicycles on frames built by Tom Ritchey. We called our company MountainBikes.
1980, published the first magazine for mountain bikers, "Fat Tire Flyer."
1981, Specialized cloned a MountainBike, and called it the "Stumpjumper."
1983, founding member of NORBA, and wrote the racing rules for mountain biking.
1990 to 2014, owned a piano moving company.
2014, wrote a book about my bicycle adventures, and retired from everything but riding my bikes.
Rock band roadie in SF from 1968 to 2010, I have smoked a joint with Jerry Garcia, gone mountain biking with Bob Weir, and when I met Janis Joplin, she was wearing red panties and sandals.
In 1976 I put on the first mountain bike downhill race.
In 1979 my friend Gary Fisher and I rented a garage to build bicycles on frames built by Tom Ritchey. We called our company MountainBikes.
1980, published the first magazine for mountain bikers, "Fat Tire Flyer."
1981, Specialized cloned a MountainBike, and called it the "Stumpjumper."
1983, founding member of NORBA, and wrote the racing rules for mountain biking.
1990 to 2014, owned a piano moving company.
2014, wrote a book about my bicycle adventures, and retired from everything but riding my bikes.
06-13-23, 12:07 PM
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1) Pit crew for a Formula Ford driver
2) I rescued/relocated an opossum with my Univega
3) No effing clue. I went to two different high schools, and have no recollection of either one even having a mascot
2) I rescued/relocated an opossum with my Univega
3) No effing clue. I went to two different high schools, and have no recollection of either one even having a mascot
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You must have really liked high school!
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Had two different High Schools. Then three years in the local Community College.
Although I did get arrested on an Air Force Base once.
06-13-23, 03:10 PM
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Oh, do tell!
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06-13-23, 05:02 PM
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1. Baled hay, and shoveled cow poop sophomore year of HS. Next year I was stocking shelves and bagging groceries, the first time I ever got a tip. 23 years in the spray paint equipment industry, 27 years and counting in the railroad MOW equipment industry. Retired from that twice, hoping the third time is a charm.
2. Climbing over the bottom half of a Dutch door at five years old, I fell and bit through my tongue. Still have problems with some pronunciations. I sat on a pencil in music class at 10 and spent a week in hospital(There is a bad dad joke in there that my dad still tells). 2nd in the 1973 Wisconsin High School State Track Meet with the Mile Relay team; we set the school record which still stands only because the event isn't run anymore.
PBP in 1991. Did a 17 hour layover at the Madrid International Airport that saved my employer $5. They never pulled that again.
3. Panthers
2. Climbing over the bottom half of a Dutch door at five years old, I fell and bit through my tongue. Still have problems with some pronunciations. I sat on a pencil in music class at 10 and spent a week in hospital(There is a bad dad joke in there that my dad still tells). 2nd in the 1973 Wisconsin High School State Track Meet with the Mile Relay team; we set the school record which still stands only because the event isn't run anymore.
PBP in 1991. Did a 17 hour layover at the Madrid International Airport that saved my employer $5. They never pulled that again.3. Panthers
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Pretty boring, as stated up above.
Spent most of my adult life contracting at Military bases all over the Lower 48, many now closed. And this one I worked at off and on for 2.5 years in the '80s. They had pretty laid back security most of the time and then one day they didn't
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Spent most of my adult life contracting at Military bases all over the Lower 48, many now closed. And this one I worked at off and on for 2.5 years in the '80s. They had pretty laid back security most of the time and then one day they didn't
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1. Ranch hand/cowboy
2. hunted feral dogs killing livestock, somebody had to do it
3. School I graduated from Bulldogs . School I consider home Indians
2. hunted feral dogs killing livestock, somebody had to do it
3. School I graduated from Bulldogs . School I consider home Indians
06-14-23, 12:59 PM
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1. Ex-pat assignment in Korea managing a company that supplied materials to the semiconductor industry. My summer job in college was on a concrete crew. This was before pumps. I was the guy who stood on the little platform & dumped the big bucket that was lifted by a crane into the one that dispensed the concrete into the wheelbarrows. None of the older guys would do it.
2. Road a bike & skied on three continents.
3. Pioneers (in Cupertino???)
Cheers,
2. Road a bike & skied on three continents.
3. Pioneers (in Cupertino???)
Cheers,
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1. Sanded cars for painting (had no fingerprints that summer). Poured tennis courts and running tracks.
2. I swear I have no recollection of that occurence.
3. Cavaliers (and had that mascot again in grad school)
2. I swear I have no recollection of that occurence.
3. Cavaliers (and had that mascot again in grad school)
