Randi Lamb:  

Thirty years gone and it seems like yesterday. I met a beautiful, sweet, wonderful woman from just over the river in Quaker Springs. We dated for about 7 months, fell in love, and married when I was 20 years old. Tonya, my wife was 18. We were married 27 years and had two wonderful children. My son Geremy 26 years old has a good life in Florida now. My daughter Shannon 22 still lives with me. She is moving into an appartment in the spring. My marrage ended about a year ago although it was over before that. We are sepperated now, working on a devorce. It's a very long, weird story. I will tell you about it but you have to ask. Between then and now there have been many ups and downs as you all know that's what life is. I have interviewed only once in my life and had two jobs in the last 28 years. I worked for Troy Built, "Gardenway" for 16 years started as a technicion , I have always had a talent to fix things even if I knew nothing about them. Moved up to a lead position with 26 employees under me. I really never completely got away from fixing things. I was very well liked as a lead. People seemed to draw to me, even when I was tough on them. That seems to fallow me everywhere I go, with whatever I'm doing. It's weird because I like to blend in, but I find everyone surrounding me at the end of the night. I still don't understand that. When Troy Built went out of bussiness, my boss brought me with her to a Xerox account. Never interviewed, the account was in big trouble. We were an outsource group working a Blue Cross account. The account was on a 90 day notice. We turned it around and got a new 12 year contract with them. I was a lead, technician, quality control position there. That is my work life up intil now. Watching my kids grow up and spending quality time with them was an important part of the last 23 years. My wife and I did some traveling to exotic...Expand for more