Hi Again:
When I wrote my first little post I was "blind." Hadn't seen anything anyone
else had written and Yahoo was just acting strange! As of yesterday finally
got it working with the 3rd new password attempt and didn't have to wait over
24 hours. So if others are slow to respond, maybe they had Yahoos giving them
trouble too!
The last most of you ever saw me, I was heading for my senior year at a
little highschool (Graduating class was almost 80 I think!) in Coulee Dam
Washington. I was really preoocupied with football then, I had a childhood
paralysis in one leg and I'm soo optimistic and naiive (still). Must have
been that Self-image class I had from Jim Kennet as a sophomore. Got a very
small tuition scholarship ($300 bucks or something) to play football at a JC
in Eastern Oregon and became student President, and homecoming king (It was a
really small school ok?) Then I wandered back to Seattle, worked at a
shipyard in Ballard and finished my undergrad at the Dub in Economics. I
didn't want to work in a bank and with the shipyard stuff got laid off a lot
back then. Came down to flying or law school (had a couple of professors at
my JC reccomend it, I didn't even know how then). If TopGun had come out a
little sooner, maybe the military thing wouldn't have scared me so much.
So I went to law school in California. Lost most of the hair I had left! Met
my Ex-wife there (married 10 years, one daughter who is 10 now). I wanted to
live in Idaho (family and liked the outdoors) moved up there. First job was
as a Deputy Attorney General for the Idaho Department of Water Resources in
Boise. Then went into private civil practice doing natural resources,
commercial and insurance defense like work. I practiced for 12 years but had
extraneous things happen that caused like an early midlife crisis.
My grandmother got alzheimers and I was the one to take care of her legally.
My father had been an only child and died when I was 11. It was hard on me,
questioned alot about who I was and where in life thing. It started this
transition.
I now live up in the mountains of central Idaho. No white supremicists. 12
miles to my PO Box as there is no rural mail delivery. Its about 22 miles
form the semi-resort town of McCall, 5,000 feet elevation, long winters and
lots of nature. This is the first year I've seen wolves. Two years ago there
was a moose that fell into the ice and was frozen right off the road with its
rearend sticking up out of the ice for aleast 2 months. Thought I'd be up
here a max of 2 years, is 4 years now and scarey that I like it so well.
Probably the weirdest thing I've done yet is to do Firewalking, pretty
powerful stuff. I have fun with life.
My daughter lives in LA now, but I get her summers and adjusted my lifestyle
so I don't have to work at those times. Worked the forest fire Clinton
visited last year after my daughter left. Now am just thinking what I'll do
when I grow up!
Have a great weekend!
Ken