Steve Armstrong:
CLASS OF 1972
Augsburg American High SchoolClass of 1972
Augsburg,
Steve's Story
MARRIED Lynn Godwin, Augsburg class-of-73. (Best thing I ever did.) Went to Rose-Hulman Inst of Tech in Engineering. Also got an AA in Electronics Communications from Univ of Md. Enlisted USAF for 7 years as a Satellite tech. Went all over the world. SSGT Armstrong and crew finally settled back in Ky and started raising kids and dogs. 5 Kids are all grown. 18 Grandkids now. Five great-grand-kids too. Some regular, some steps, some adopted. An interesting mix of colors and origins. Doesn't matter how they join our team. We love 'em all. Currently 4 dogs rule the roost when mommy's not home (and none of the grandkids are around.) I'm just a tag-along. As the kids say, "I'm the man who GETS to live in MawMaw's house."
Worked 7 years for ITT as a field tech. Then 5 for PNC Bank as a mainframe network guy. Then 22 years at UPS' airline and early retirement as a computer tech (due to medical stuff). Never did try to conquer Nashville. Realized I really wasn't quite talented enough and couldn't write music. Either one might have been enough, but I lacked both. (The rest of the world discovered 'Cracklin' Rosie' so I was left behind.) And my kids liked to EAT regu...Expand for more
lar (damn them anyway :) ) so I did life another way, one that actually MADE money, Put the music to one side to be my life's condiment and brought the math ability forward to run the show for me. And people kept paying me for that!! How cool is THAT!!! I solved their problems and they gave me money and my kids got to eat!
Busy being grandpaw now, beside my Wonder Woman as grandmaw (48 years towards forever together).
All-in-all I did this life-thing pretty damned good, if I do say so myself. It was not always fun or smart, but WAS always interesting. I play on the PC, plunk my 6-string and hang with the finest woman to ever draw breathe. Everything before her was just arrows pointing the way to where she was waiting patiently for me to catch up.
I could do the "great unknown mystery" with satisfaction now, if my time was over. It's mostly been a job-well-done I think.
Even the missteps led me back onto the right path where Lynn was, and where I belonged.
I wonder what God's got waiting around the corner for me? :)
I'm assuming of course that He has a use for an old fat grizzled former-computer tech with a musical bent and a wise-ass sense of humor.
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