Fred Cowles:  

Holy crap, there are 20,000 characters allowed to cover over 40 years since I've graduated high school (CVHS - '79). Luckily I'll only need a fraction of the character limitation. I'm not in to social media - so this and LinkedIn are basically the only places on the net that actually has anything posted about me (by me). LinkedIn has a work profile so there's not much there. I did open a Facebook page, but only to locate someone that lost their wallet/purse. Long story, here's the short version - kid loses wallet in the water. I find it the next AM on the beach. There's ID that indicates the person is on vacation (actually in San Diego to celebrate their 21st birthday) and looks to have just withdrew a couple hundred bucks from an ATM. Then the weird thing was I noticed the person was born on the same day/year as my son. After opening the Facebook page I was able to get a message to the owners relatives that got me in contact with the person. All good - Facebook actually served a purpose other than pissing people off because of silliness like "un-friending" or making posts (political, religious, whatever) that upsets others. Where was I? Oh yeah, between the time I got out of high school and now... In the 40 years since graduating high school, I've basically worked the same job. It's been an interesting career and we'll see how much longer it lasts. Three outcomes, either it kills me, spits me out as a mental patient or provides me the ability to last a few more years after retirement. Face it, if you're in the class of '79, then you're pushing 60 which means that if you took care of yourself, then hopefully the remainder of our time will be pleasant, as long as we don't have some other medical malady or mental issue kick the crap out of us. I've been fortunate (if you want to call it that). I've visited about a quarter of the worlds countries...Expand for more