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Hometown

A small midwest town near major city

Places I've been

Actually in looking things over, I been around a lot of places, but just mostly visiting. Otherwise, its the upper Midwest where I was born, raised and went to school. I recently moved 2000 miles west, to Podunk.

Education

• smaller independent university, management and organizational behavior - 1971 to 1972
• major midwestern university, business, economics and science - 1963 to 1969
• very large suburban high school, college prep - 1959 to 1963

Work

• self-employed and management consultant, in health care administration since 1977 - 1977 to 2009

Military

• U.S.Army, Republic of Viet Nam - 1969 to 1970
  Division: Signal Corp
  Rank: Spc 5

More about me

 

I've been on EONS since August of 2006, a pioneer, in fact, I had a pioneer badge, but then EONS dropped badges, but I do feel like a good scout in spite of not have my badge anymore. 

Overall I'm not sure yet about this age thing as a reason for people to relate as a group, or have a conversation on common experience, expectations or opinions, but it can be interesting, actually very interesting.

Looking back over the postings of others; it is the when and the where that can make a real difference in how things are seen and talked about.

Example; if you didn't live in the sixties as a young adult, like I did, you can't really know or feel how things were as compared to reading about them or seeing them on film or tape, or being told about them from others. For me, specific examples are the Viet Nam War, the struggle for civil rights, the amazing changes in 'youth culture', the space race, the Cold War, Kennedy, Johnson, then Nixon administrations, and the assassinations and violence that bookend the decade.

I live through that time, mostly viewing it, as a part of a large and active Midwestern university having begun the decade as a high school student and ending it as a draftee on his way to War, the Viet Nam War.

After all this time, I still look back and remember, an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times".

 I also have a blog at,

 http://seastate114.blogspot.com/

 

Favorite Movies

I don't have one but I do like many...it depends on the time of the film both as to story when it was created and when I saw and with whom, the subject matter, the actors and story...the director and production value...the best is something you strive for but can never reach..almost...

Favorite TV Shows

I have a lot as in the case of film. Obviously most of network television is time filling and content lite. Cable is great for short attention span and commercial skipping. Old time television is interesting as a time capsule of how and what I remember vs. how tacky and hooky some of it was. But then again how timely television is to capture the moment. Example, the Kennedy shooting coverage does catch the moment as well as living it but it is close and maybe what television does best.

Activities

It now appears that EONS is one of my most favorite activities. I never intended to have spent as much time on EONS or to have the time to do it. Both have been unexpected. And now I guess I like to exercise my writing which I know to not be the best, in either form or format since I believe that English is my second language in that I was trained and interested in science and technology as a study and a career.

Favorite Charities

I have worked in the non-profit sector and as such I have a great respect for charities, foundations and other service organizations that support and enhance a community and its people.

Favorite Music

I have a great tolerance to most of anything called music, but of course, more tolerance of some than others. I have lived in a time that includes a number of forms of popular music and of course I most sensitive to that, that was popular when I was growing up and a teenager and young adult. Most of what I seem to like is played at background noise in supermarkets, stores and elevators. I can hum the melody and even know some of the words which I can't say I can do to anything that is popular today.

Favorite Books

I have read a lot. And continue to read every day. But I can't say I have a favorite book, type or subject of book. What I can say is that some are more interesting than others.

Favorite Quotes

Liars, Damn Liars, and Statistics -- Disreali

Favorite People

Interesting people are the most interesting to me. And I hope that the same people would believe that I'm as interesting to them. Of course, this is an interesting formulation to have to implement and then maintain especially if you are a shy person. So maybe the answer is people I admire rather than favorites.

Favorite Places

There are a lot of places I would favor, for a time. Anywhere can be boring if you have to be there. And anywhere can be interesting if you make that way. Most of the places I have been have been for a reason specific to what I had to do or wanted to do at the time. Like in a way I liked Viet Nam, which was not at the time a very pleasant place to be. However, because of what I was doing I got to get around to different places and met different people. While I was in Asia I did have a chance to get around outside of Viet Nam such as Australia and Hong Kong. Each was interesting in different ways. If there is any place I have always felt most comfortable around is probably the mountains and hills of the west.

Favorite Animals

I'm afraid I see animals as animals. Not that I dislike them or wish any harm that is not natural or necessary to survival of others. So I'm not a PETA person as I see them as being on the extreme side. But I believe unawareness and indifference to the creatures that live around us is distressing and demeaning to our need to be good stewards of the Earth and those things living on it, below or above.

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