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About crankyoldguy067

I'm a very complex person...no...really I am. It may seem like I only golf, watch TV, and listen to Randy Newman, Tom Waits and Little Feat...but I am a deep, deep thinker...so deep that at times I just have to lay down. I love my family. I love my wife for putting up with me. I have held more jobs than a Pakastani immigrant...and have had three complete career cycles. 1. In my first life (rymes with first wife) I did almost every blue-collar job you can imagine...all with alarming ineptetude. 2. In my second cycle, I owned an ad agency, was an award winning music producer, and recording artist. And now, since the advent of the Internet... 3.I have been pretty much locked into providing services and marketing support to radio stations across 160 markets...while dablling with writing...continuing to write music...managing several blog sites, the country club web site, and being a grandpa...while working to pay for the weddings of my last three daughters. I will be working until I am 70...or 75...or 80. My advice to anyone who wants to emulate my life... DON"T!!!!! Stay in college. Have a good, long career in something with a decent retirement program and good benefits. You can't pay for your gallbladder operation with an Emmy Award. Really. I've asked.

Rediscovering America- Lift Off and Day One

Ahh….to be on the open road! As it turns out, getting out of Eugene was half of the battle of day one. My beautiful wife is time challenged. This is no secret, and there is no denying it (although denial … Continue reading

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Rediscovering America – The Prequel

Merriam Webster defines bucket list as: noun Popularity: Bottom 50% of words |Definition of bucket list 1:  a list of things that one has not done before but wants to do before dying. OK then. Kinda bleak and to the … Continue reading

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Learning What You DON’T Want, To Help Find What You Do Want…

Wisdom. It’s such an overused, yet underutilized thing…right? But the advantage of being “well past middle-age” (no…I’m not going to live to be more than 120 years old), is that experience really has given me some words of wisdom for … Continue reading

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Seriously?? You Are Taking Another “Selfie?”

from the comic strip Pickles I know this has been covered by loads of people, across loads of social media…but damn, I don’t see it getting any better. I would like to start this conversation by asking, “JUST HOW MANY … Continue reading

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