Jim Sommers:  

2016 Carotid artery cleaned out Open heart surgery, 5 bypasses 10 day cruise St Kitts, St Thomas Kidney stinted Classic 1987 300zx totaled out by texting woman, broken r/knee Metal rod repaired in left tripod, oral surgery Aortic valve repaired Somewhere in there purchased factory fresh performance 350z gunmetal gray/blk leather 2017 5 day cruise for my birthday Given Ok by my fleet of doctors to slalom ski Putting together Western Caribbean trip for early 2018 Life goes on 2018 Beaches of Grand Cayman. Mahogany Bay, Cozumel, zip lining the rain forest of Belize So the significant other says Lake Keowee is great but she would like to be standing in waist deep water seeing her toes and holding a margarita...yup meeting up with friends in Florida for several days then off again to the Caribbean for a week. End of a great summer on the lake, boat tucked away stored for "winter". December scheduled check over this far out from 5 bypasses ect on the 6th found 90%+ blockage in right Carotid. Felt great no symptoms. Off to surgery. That went well, just yet another scar. December 20th finally got to use our Bob Seger tickets from last years postponed concert. Fantastic, sold out, 20,000 of us standing dancing ect, majority of time, 3 encores. From the 70's to today and beyond no one better. Merry Christmas and let's have a great 2019. 2020 2020... 2019 flew by. Did some travelling went to Grand Bahamas Hilton, did 'Catholic Tour' (St. Thomas, St Johns and St Maarten). Four of our very favorite places by far. Spent summer as usual on Lake Keowee. Like I mentioned year flew by. All was not good as a very great/old friend of mine, Terry Fitzgerald, had a horrific stroke that he thankfully survived but has a very difficult road ahead of him. Feel sure anyone that reads this will know/remember Terry. 2020 Mother Nature forgot to drop off winter here so far this year, just fine with me. Looking forward to Summer and more great times at lake with the kids and grandgirls. Planning trip to Bermuda. October 8th 2020 somewhere around 4:30am. Text from Brian. Terry had died. What a battle he had put up. What a life more than well lived. What unforgettable, most times unbelievable, memories. I thank him for them all. 2021 Been very busy/active. Left Greenville County EMS. in 2020. Fed up, sick and tired of county government and "political correctness". After 6 months of doing nothing I decided I had to to something. Being 70 I found work in the logistics area but always full time. Part time is all I was interested in. Made finding something worthwhile difficult. Saw a job that interested me and I was certainly qualified for but a little too old. for. Applied for the job. ZOOM interview, written test, interview, oral test, interview, driving test, interview. Am now employed 3 days a week as a test driver for Michelin Tire Company. Their North American Headquarters are here in Greenville. Drive everything from 7 speed manual Porsches to 350 4x4 pickups. Michelin also has a test track here as well as a professional performance driving school. Needless to say I love it, Have all 4 of my grandgirls as far from public schools as possible. Hoping for them to receive an education rather than an indoctrination. Away from Black Lives Matter to All Lives Matter. just one problem of hundreds the public system "teaches". From all our cruises being cancelled starting in February Bev and I have 3 cruises to look forward to. The fun of it all plus almost $2000.00 on board credit should make for some interesting times. Bev will be leaving this morning for Murrells Inlet, she is ...Expand for more