Proud Dad

I’m a man who’s lived a full life, seen a lot of things, made a lot of mistakes and had a few successes along the way. Somehow, I have landed standing tall in a small community surrounded by beautiful mountains and really nice people.

Wow, you never know how your life is going to turn out. I remember in my twenties I never thought I’d make thirty. After that I looked past the year 2000 apocalypse and saw the end of the world with me as a cause, and not in it. (explanation: I was one of the programmers that caused the y2k bug…)

I landed south of Seattle raising a young man named Riley, with rules that involved no spanking and no profanity. He shared a passion for the trumpet and I bought him one paying off a monthly credit charge from a friend over three years.

I told him the story of how I got on my bicycle one Friday night as a junior high kid in a small Southern California town and rode to a big auditorium where I performed a trumpet solo that bounced off the walls and brought the house down. The problem was, my family never bothered to attend that night and I rode my bike home with a heavy broken heart.

I made every one of Riley’s events and never spanked him once. He is now a 27 year old auto body expert in Kent, WA, into his second home, owns a vintage Camero, and has a custom pool stick.

Me, a proud dad and still rocking on!

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