Then and Now…On Having 5 Daughters and Learning to Live with the DDJD Syndrome

Posted on June 19, 2016 by crankyoldguy067

Daughters

When I first started thinking about resurrecting CrankyOldGuy,com I began by going back through some of the “hidden gems” from the old site. Most of these are more than 10 years old…and the fact is, they feel dated…just like me.

So, on the new site, just for the fun of it, I am going to post some of the old nuggets, along with an updated view of how I feel about the same topic now. I have to admit, even I was surprised by some of this stuff, and how my emotions had changed…or not.

Here we go– THEN and NOW

Then
(approximately 2004)…I wrote this about being a Father of Five Daughters

Learning to Cope with the DDJD Syndrome

First, let me say that unlike most Asian and Middle East cultures, I do not see having daughters as curse. In fact, if there is God’s hand involved with this (and not just the reality that my “y chromosome” must be almost non-existent) it more than likely has something to do with the fact that he knows that I would have been the “little League Dad from Hell,” and nobody needs that.

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Contact CrankyOldGuy

Posted on June 19, 2016 by crankyoldguy067

For a guy my age, I am exceedingly “well-connected” when it comes to mobile/online/social media.  Yes…I have been at it since some early Greenhouse projects with AOL in the mid 1990s, but the number of ways that people can reach one another these days is redonkulous. Trust me…with 5 daughters and 4 grandkids, I know how many ways I can be reached…email, instant messaging, texting, phone, and an ever-growing list of social media…it’s nuts.

But, because I have to be “up on what the kids are doing” for both business and pleasure, I do it all…

Here are the BEST ways to reach me.

EMAIL FOR THIS SITE- crankyoldguy067@gmail.com (the 67 was my HS football number…not my age).

Other ways to reach out…

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/pat.miller.7927

And the plethora of side projects and other stuff I do in “my spare time.”

http://www.friendsofbuyijja.com – the non-profit we started to help a rural school in Buyijja, Uganda…and save my soul from what I have written, and will be writing, on this blog.

http://www.accessntr.com – My business site… (NTR originally stood for Non Traditional Revenue…a radio term- but has morphed into Non Traditional Retail to embrace ad/marketing clients).

http://www.shadowhillscc.org and http:www.shadowhillsextra.com – My Home Away From Home

http://www.beyondgodandscience.com – my “WooWoo site, dedicated to explaining my thoughts and research on external consciousness after my NDE in the Mid 90s.

http://www.dopplegangtheband.com– A link to the music of our old band, put up during our “reunion concert.”

http://www.claymationchristmasmusic.com – A link to the Music and Story behind my work on the Emmy Award Winning CBS Animation Special, Claymation Christmas Celebration. California Raisins anyone?

 

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Just When I Thought I Was Out…

Posted on June 14, 2016 by crankyoldguy067

“They keep pullin’ me back in…”

Poor Michael Corleone. Poor me.

I thought I was done. I really did. In the early 2000s, I was on the “bleeding edge” of blogging about life, politics, entertainment, and media…and got burned out when things went nuts (do the Bush years bring back any happy memories for anyone?). I got out, just as blogging and pod-casting, and social media exploded. Perfect timing…as usual. 

“The Interweb” has morphed a ton since my original ravings under the moniker of CrankyOldGuy. I blogged for a while under my real name, until someone barked back and said that he was “sick of reading rants from a cranky old guy” (I was just past 50 at the time, and had hardly earned my tree rings as a bona-fide cranky OLD guy).  I just checked the original domain name register info, and was shocked to see I actually bought the domain name crankyoldguy.com in May of 2006.  Weird. Ten years ago. And, now…I’m actually old. But, I was the original cranky old guy, no matter what Bernie Sanders would have you believe.

Of course, most of my peers are going to start with that old saw tune, “You’re only as old as you feel.”  But let me assure you…I feel as old as I feel…and on lots of mornings, that is old.

I just got back from a golf/reunion with my old college football teammates. I again use the word, “old” in its descriptive form.  There were a ton of “Goats and Bloats” there, along with failing (some would call it revisionist) memories and face/name recognition lapses that required a bit of the, “hey…I think I went to school with your kid” kinds of comments.

OCEFootball-Golf

But we were there…and very happy to see one another, because it had been more than 40 years since most of us had seen one another. The golf was fun, but the best part was pulling out a few scrapbooks, and comparing pics of the “earlier version” of our “nicely weathered, bonus footage included” bodies.

Including mine.
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