Birthday

Thanks for all the birthday well wishes! So far, I've only had one birthday all year. If you missed it, maybe you can get in on the next one. I went to Crooked Stick Golf Course, but they wouldn't let me on. Something was said about me not being old enough. They kind of made a big deal out of it. The next thing I knew, it was all over the newspapers and magazines that they were only letting old people play. I didn't mean for them to make such a big fuss about it!

Employed Again!

I'm officially employed again! I had to go through a grueling testing period for an old man, but made it through. I was the oldest guy to go through it. It feels weird to be on a schedule again. It also feels weird to have 40+ co-workers. It also feels weird to get a paycheck. It also feels weird to have Bible study with your fellow employees. It also feels VERY weird to sing with your fellow employees during Bible study. They must be doing something right because they are growing like crazy. They expect to grow by another 125+ people in the next 2-3 years.

Maybe now that I'm "working" I'll have some time to write a blog every now and then.

Blog Entry

It's good to be back!

Blog Entry

I haven't seen my blog in a while. It's a really boring blog! I noticed that I have a couple of comments from back in June from Ronda and my mom but I don't know how to publish them. I guess I should check a little more often. I thought since I was getting sooo many comments, then I would choose the neat little option button that lets you read the comments before putting them on the blog. Unfortunately I must not have read all the instructions. Maybe I'll try to post something soon.

Golf

I used to play golf about every week before I got into selling real estate. I miss those days. I never was very good at it but it was fun to wack the ball and see how far it would go before it went into the weeds. I think I hold the distinction of being the only one to hit the club house from tee #1 at Arrow Head Golf Course in Greenfield. If you know this course then you know it's about a 120 degree angle from where it should have gone. Nevertheless my boss used to continue paying my way to play golf with him, probably because it made him feel good to beat me by 40 points. Every now and then I parred a hole or two and if I was really lucky I got a birdie. Most of the time I spent my days looking in the weeds for back-up balls, or yelling FORE at people in the next fairway over. Everyone pretty much took cover every time I got up to swing the club. Yes, those were the days! Here are a few pictures I ran across recently while looking through my archives. I was actually playing with the Holdens on this round. I think charles was taking the pictures so unfortunately he's not in the action pictures.

Vinyl Records

Does anyone still have any vinyl records? I sold a piece of property to a guy who goes around buying vinyl records. The other day he went to an auction and bought 10,000-15,000 albums. His plan is to re-create a record store like the ones they used to have back in the "old days". This got me to thinking...I think my parents have some old records. They have the original of the Smarts, the Stetlers, Victory Trio, Gessners, McGinnises, and others. I wonder which one would bring the most money to a collector. If you have any of these, you might have a gold mine! At least that's the term the guy used to tell me about the auction he went to. He also mentioned something about collecting Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash vinyls. Let me know what you have and I'll see what he'll pay!

Campaign Stop

In case you didn't guess what the picture was in my last post, it was an empty toilet paper roll. Which leads me to my next point. I was able to shake the hand of former President Bill Clinton today! He was at the Greenfield Middle School campaigning for his wife. He has so many sad stories to tell about the people of our country. I sadly showed him my toilet paper roll and asked him what Hillary will do to protect me from this ever happening again. He said he understood my circumstances and would ask Hillary to push for larger rolls. Since I shook his hand I thought it would be better not to tell him I ran out of soap too.

I took these pictures with my camera phone. It's the best I could do.