Ken Halseth:  

Life LOOKIE~~~LOOKIE! I'm still alive and well and living it up in Paradise! I think someone once voted me the person most likely to start my own cult or become a psycho killer... or something like that. LOL! Hmmm.... Still married to the same wonderful woman. (Been together since '86) Two AWESOME sons. Temporarily off work due to an industrial accident, but surgery on my neck should take care of it. What else... well, I almost died from an adrenal tumor. That was a fun and exciting experience! I was in town back in '01... my company transferred me to Fargo and one of my accounts was in Sioux Falls. The adrenal tumor gig put an end to THAT career! I was REALLY PO'ed when I took the wife and kids down to Falls Park to show it off and found a barren, asphalt mess where I used to fish & swim. And the river... what an UGLY shade of brown the water has become! And what's with all the fences and the "NO SWIMMING"? Is the water that polluted? Needless to say, I was NOT HAPPY! All the old 'hoods have changed so much. My grandma's old house down by the post office (over on so. 4th across from the old Burns Moving & Storage) is gone and has been replaced by a bunch of freakin' cliff dwellings (aka apartments.) So much has changed, yet I still remain the same in so many ways. Whittier has a bunch of new buildings and...sniffle,sniffle,heavy sigh... the old school is a freakin' museum or something... I didn't bother checkin' it out. So many sad things... so many memories... ahhhh, to be 17 again and to have a chance to relive it all. I wouldn't change much if I had the chance. Those were, indeed the best days of our lives! No amount of success or fame or fortune can even begin to compare with the simple joys of those wonderful school days! 2007 UPDATE... Not much new. I still need surgery on my neck & back but my neurosurgeon is hesitant to operate on the neck (so much more chance of paralysis there) and he is afraid the disc at L5-S1 is going to need fusing. The last operation on it lasted several years before the pain returned. Add that to the recent neck injury and it looks like I might have to settle for early retirement. YUCK! Not my idea of a fun time for sure. Let's see... I sold the Lincoln and the Winnebago and now just have a classic Bronco II and a newer 16 passenger bus that is soon to become my fishin'/huntin' rig. (It's cheaper than shelling out $100,000 for a new motor home that's for sure... like I have that kind of scratch just laying around...LOL!) Still totally politically INCORRECT! I think all politicians are mindless grubs bent on the destruction of civilization as we know it. In retrospect, maybe that's not such a bad idea! I've decided to buy some land in the mountains so I can have a retreat when the world just gets too freakin' wierd! I think all illegal aliens should be implanted with GPS trackers and sent back to their home countries. If they come back they go to prison for 10 years! I also believe that illegals should be denied welfare and food stamps and free medical! Let the SOB's become citizens and pay some freakin' taxes before they start begging for our scraps. Filthy scum! I firmly believe that every bleeding-heart moron, who thinks illegals should be allowed to even stay in this country, should be forced to give their job to a foreigner. Then we'll see just how much compassion they really have! If you want to check out my MSN group, it's called... FreeDini for President. Be warned though... it is totally anti Bush (like all true Americans should be) and anti Iraq war. We also enjoy slamming others, but those are our pet peeves. So, come on in... IF YOU DARE! MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA! OK... 2011 update. I am still in the Pacific Northwest. (or should I say again?) I bought a house in Iowa back in '08. Got a great deal on it and was able to buy it straight out for cash. None of that bs making some stinking banker's BMW payments! lol. Unfortunately my wife wants to stay out here in Washington so the house is going up for sale. No sense in paying property taxes and paying a lawn service to keep the grass mowed when I will probably never even see the place again. Neither one of my sons wants it... they want to stay in Washington. Surgery on the neck is out of the question. I can't even find a surgeon to work on the disc at L5-S1 again because they all say it will only help for about 5 years and then I'll be back in the same boat. Oh well. Looks like it's time to retire for good. NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! :~( Still married... 25 years now... still politically incorrect. Still the same old pain in the ass I've always been. Some things never change...lol. I still think all politicians should be sent to forced labor camps to atone for their evil lives. I still think illegal aliens should be deported FOREVER. Yup... I haven't really changed all that much. How about you all? Any politicians or bankers out there? If so... YOU SUCK! You are all vampires who feed on the poor and would all sell your souls (if you haven't done so already) for a dollar and a little bit of power. SICKOS! OK...New news. Our elder son gets his Degree at the end of this quarter. Little brother isn't far behind. Still no solid evidence of where either of them wants to go to contunue their educations. Richard will want whichever college has the best music department and Josh will probably end up bankrupting us by going to freakin' MIT or some place equally as expensive... LOL ;~) All I can say is, "Can ya flip a burger, boy?". Mwahahahaha!!!! Why do kids insist on educating their perents into the Poor House? What's wrong with saving a few $$$ and going to a smaller, less well known school like the Honorary University of South Hickbilly? H.U.S.H. has a wonderful Staff... all 3 of them or, in HUSHese, all treeum. Canvas dorms. (not campus... canv...Expand for more