Jim Roy Mingus:  

CLASS OF 1978
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Coos bay, OR

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Been Married 14 yrs now to my Peruvian wife, my beautiful Inca Princess Adela ("adayla") Elizabeth. She was a teacher in peru when i met her she has a degree in Business Admin... She is the Admin fer a 585 plus student Independent study program at San Pasqual High in Escondido, Ca. I'm a retired firefighter and medic, 27 years, I got as high as a Battalion Chief, but incident command sucked, the fun was attack nozzel fightin the fire.... i had a Concrete construction business fer 22 years, expert in hillside concrete foundations. I worked Truckin trees an Rocking road logging the redwoods, falling timber loader operator an cat skinner, also commercial fishing an crabbing in Alaska an out of Humboldt bay, Eureka Calif. spent 9 years as Captain of a commercial fishing boat in Kenia Alaska. I am an owner/op of JimRoy Trucking. I'm presently running a supertag rock truck, thas a 4 axel dump truck 380" wb, bigger than a super 10 that can haul 20 ton... i'm haulin rock ,asphalt an grindings, workin 2 shifts a day mott...i was pullin a 53 ft dry van for a fella i taught. truckin to. ran to Denver an bring Coors back to San Diego... before that I was pullin reefer fer the Armenian mafia hauling round trip Calif to Houston an west to Phoenix or Socal fer 4 years... I ran 48 state longhaul fer many years,I've trucked in 49 states...I was Owner/ band leader of a 17 pc.Big Band (Dancers Dream) i played lead bone also played Tuba in College of the Redwoods concert band. i play all the brass an saxes. I Skippered the LCI 1091 (google it) on return to Humboldt Bay from Mid Coast marine drydock in Eastside. biggest vessel i ever skippered... 167 feet long...the LCI 1091 was in combat in wwII, it is now a Humboldt maritime museum boat. I was a radioman in Nuke fast attack Submarines. i'm an Elk hunter, fisherman,Reloader, Shooter and Golfer... Dad was my golf pard , he passed away 07 feb 2017. i'm kinda lost now with him gone, then i had a stroke in july of 17 so when we go golfing i'll always be a stroke ahead of you...lost 50% of my memory now stuff i used to spit out, i gitta learn again or look up, names escape me when i want em then pop up when i don't need em. faces i'm good with. an i never fergit a purty girl lol... The Lord smiles on drunks an dumb animals an I qualified on both counts, i had a 100% recovery cept the memory part...but that ain't hurt me, some memories ya'd just as soon not remember anyhow... lol 2 weeks after the surgery to clean out my cartoid, I was takin a meat load to Cheyenne Wy. We enjoyed 2 ...Expand for more
month vacations to Peru to see wifes family till the scamdemic. i trucked food thru that whole fraud, no bathing in hand sanitizer, no mask, no vax an believe it or not, I had not a sniffle. healthy as a bull ox. i'm a pure blood an anyone trys to jab me will git themselves a free crainial implant courtesy of my old friend, Samuel Colt an his, 45 cal. high speed wireless device. Next move will be to gtfo of Calif. being the left coast has gone commie we'll prob go to Az. or Texas otherwise i'da come home to Coos county... Wanna have horseys an a dog again... out of town the hell away from stupid people... I'm not pc still say what i think an call em as i see em. i'm still the President of the Ugly Bas tards of America... pretty much the same as i was in high school as a senior, crap ! now i'm a senior again lol... I remember ya'll as young an good lookin, now when i look at yur fotos, all i see is a bunch of old people or somebodys grandparents. At home, I look in the bathroom mirror an see some grey bearded bald headed old bas tard staring back at me in the mirror. i'm askin myself, wtf is he doin in my bathroom. i scream fer the wife, she comes a running an i point at that old man an say " who tf is that old bas tard an whys he in our bathroom" needless to say, she smacks me upside the head an mutters silly old man....lol i'm 5'7" 180 lbs an wear 34 waist britches , bp still 110/60.... I pretty much look the same cept fer i'm bald an grey... hopefully this covid bull shee it will fade an things go back to normal an eventually we gonna retire to our home in Trujillo Peru till i die then they can cremate me an dump me ashes out in the salmon grounds off Trinidad Head in Norcal... my happy place....been thinkin about goin back to fishin up in Alaska also but most all of my pals there are dead or gone...well all fer now maybe i'll remember more a tell ya another story later on... ya'll are welcome to holler back text me so i know yur callin, i'll give ya my phone number, its a good idea to text me first so i know its u calling an i'll answer yur call... 760-484-2183... if ya'll do a bit of exploring in the classmates menu bar you'll find the new conversations thinger give it a try....reckon nobody wants to talk to my dumb ass, good thing i talk to myself alot at least i know Jim , Roy an JimRoy still love me... lol i'm my own best friend...they call me Tortuga(turtle) now... I hit 64 years old on oct 29th. my favorite quote.... "The reason there are so many stupid people, is that its illegal to kill em" "John Wayne"
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Yurs truly with Blue Lake Fire
Me, knockin it down with an exterior attack
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Some days just start better than others !
my elk camp
makin like i'm a tree
they call this 2 faced   lol
biggest pos on the road in san diego county
wee bit heavy  like 30 ton instead of 20...
f-35's on miramar tarmac 100 yds away
Cecil Turtle, my pard !  They call me Tortuga
Some things are better left unsaid !!
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