I can relate to some of these.

I too don't like the club volume which can also be found at concerts, that and I still get carded when I go to clubs and I am 60+. Even at work my coworkers think I am in my late 40s early 50s. I have some hearing loss in the high freq. range. Some of this loss can be contributed to age while some can be contributed to my work.

Facial hair is a choice. The only reason I have a mustache is my wife. After we got married she found a photo of me with a mustache and she liked it. I made a deal with her, I would keep it if she maintained it. That was 32+ years ago.

The photo was on a military ID. I would grow the mustache and keep it for about 4 or 5 months then shave it off, then go awhile without it then decide to grow it back. I would get tired of keeping it to military standards. I still keep my hair within military regulations and I ask the stylist to trim the mustache so now I have two people that maintain it.

I don't shave everyday either, to lazy or tired or running late for work. Lucky I am not in front of the public when I am at work so don't have to present a clean cut view for them.

I have had a beard only once and that was when I had the chicken pox in the 90's. I kept it until my youngest son started pulling on it and then it came off and has not been back since. All 2 of my boys have beards now and they have had them for about year. My middle son had to shave his for the new company he went to work for.

My wife and I are talking about getting a new car which will give us a second car payment. Lucky we owe just slightly over 10,000 on the subura and with a couple of large payments it will be well below the 10,000 and since I just got a substantial raise it will be doable. She is also talking about changing jobs and will need reliable transportation and not have to depend on our 1973 chevy pickup (full size) since it is such a gas hog.

Wow This post has generated a lot of interest and it is interesting to see that a lot of people have kept there cars/trucks for 10+ years.

I had a 2005 chevy cobalt with manual transmission that I bought new St. Patricks day in 2005. It had 418,00 miles on it when the insurance company totaled it in 2015. It had original brakes, clutch, and I had just replaced the catalytic converter when I was in an accident on my way to work. The spark plugs had been changed at 250,000 miles. Basically the only thing I did to the car was put on new tires and changed the oil and air filter and the cabin air filter. The mechanic kept telling me I had at least another 10,000 to 20,000 thousand miles on the brake pads before I needed to change them. I now drive a 2011 Subura Legacy which had 43,000 thousand miles on it when I purchased it right after my cobalt was totaled. I now have 113,000 thousand on it and have already replaced all four tires and a rim. This was not long after I purchased the car and saw my tire rolling down the hi-way without me. It was a rear tire blowout and I was doing 75 MPH when it happen. With this car being all wheel drive I had to buy 4 new tires.

If private industry would pay a decent wage crime would be almost nil and we wouldn't have people sitting in prison watching tv and on the internet or thinking up more ways to get into trouble when they get out.

my wife told my son when he was eight and he did go and spend some time with them but he still perfers to stay with me

Community service is chain gangs without chains but still supervised. My middle son had to do community service for driving without a license/permit because he was going to be a gentleman and help the girl out he was going snowboarding with. she was afraid to drive in the snow. We told him we would not pay his fine so the judge gave him community service and the girls parent paid her fine and she didn't learn anything. My son quite dating her and I heard later that she got into some more trouble and her parents bailed her out of that also. If i remember correctly her mother was a lawyer and her daughter could do no wrong. My son learned a vaulable lesson and was not in any more trouble, he is now married and has two boys, 7 years and a 7 month old.

I read James Clear's check list on how to read more and I already exceed his check list, especially his 20 pages a day. This is my method, I read any time I have down time, Breaks and Lunch at work, in waiting rooms, Drs. Office, DMV, Hair salons, at home while watching tv. The tv just provides back ground noise and yes I can tell you what is happening on the show as well as in the book. I always have reading material with me. The only time I didn't have any reading material outside of military training manuals was in boot camp in 1973. My first grade teacher and grandparents encouraged me to read and I have kept it up. The schools I went to, the libraries had a hard time keeping books at my reading level. By the time I was in the third grade I was already reading at High school level and was reading at college level before I reached High school.

Yes they are and I passed it on to some friends and relatives hoping that they will enjoy it.

If they are in Maximum security prison then there is no hope for them. Most of the ones that were on the chain gangs was in minimum security. The unions should not have a say in what the prison system does or how it operates. Our politicans need to grow a pair and tell the unions to stick with law abiding labor, wait most of the union leadership is crookeder than a jack rabbits hind leg. They don't want the prisons taking money from them but they are willing to take the money from hard working men and women. Don't get me wrong, at one time the unions were good for the work force, but in today's economy they just take and take and not give back to the work force, in fact they are willing to take from the work force and give to the companies that the work force is part of. I have yet to see or hear of a contract that the union negotiated that the work force has made out. Usually the work force is making concessions because the union does not want to do due diligence in negotiatons.

My oldest son is not mine Biologically. My wife was pregnate when I met her and he was born after we were married. I met her the middle of January 1984 and it took me two weeks to get the courage to ask her out, another two weeks of talking to her before she said yes and on March 2 1984 we were married and he was born in April. My friends said the the marriage would not last and we have now been married for 32 years. Those same friends got married before I did and they were divorced within two years. I also have two other boys that were born approximately 3 years apart. 1987 and 1990. The oldest does know who his biological dad is and has spent time with him (he was a marine), but he still considers me his true dad. The other two boys are aware of this and there is no conflict about it, they consider themselves brothers and they act it. My wife likes to tell everyone she meets that she has 3 boys and our last name is Beach so we have the Beach Boys (Band). All the boys took music in elementry school and played the Saxophone, they did not keep up with it in Jr High or High school

A lot of truck would have to be used to move the same amount that his helicopter moved. You have the Load Time, the drive time and the unload time. With the helicopter they can start the sorting right away and prepping them for transport to the different sales lot in that state or other states. It all comes down to what makes the most econonmical (sp) sense. I would take the Helicopter any day. You have to remember that lots usually start selling Christmas trees the day after Thanksgiving.

I really enjoyed this as I had a uncle that retired from the Air Force in 1970 or 71 and he passed away approximately 2 years ago. I worked for him in his auto body shop in the summer 71 when I was 16. A great experience. I have another uncle that was in the army towards the end of WWII and started a trucking business using surplus army trucks hauling steel and lumber. He based his business out of Bristol TN. He quit Driving and started Leasing his trucks to other drivers and he maintain them for the drivers.