Hunter1948

Hey, just want to give a shout-out to @Markoff for creating a new sig.
Thanks Mark.  Cheers

Happy Birthday guys and cheers !!

Thanks to everyone for the very kind words. Dad’s one heck of a fighter. He loves everyone of his health care workers. He’s so appreciative of them all. He’s so embarrassed that he needs so much help and assistance to even go to the washroom. A few of the nurses have had tears in their eyes. 
 
To EVERYONE OF YOU HEALTH CARE WORKERS here reading this let it be known: 
We love you!
We appreciate you!
 

Wayne thinking of you, your family and wishing the best for your dad. 

Happy Birthday folks and cheers !!

Here is a picture of DAD with myself standing and my 2 brothers! Some people say we look like dad. What do you think?
 

Hello everyone, some of you know what's been going on with my parents. I'll try and keep this short. Mom and dad are 87 and 90. Dad will be 91 in August mom 88 in September.
in April mom had critical loss of blood circulation in her left leg. If you've never seen someone's legs dying it's a nasty looking and painful thing.  She was faced with the real possibility of amputation. Luckily her medical providers were able to surgically improve her circulation to the point her feet are slowly healing and the pain has improved.
As you know my dad has a multitude of health issues. Congestive heart failure, dialysis 3 times a week, broke his hip twice. Sadly in May he started having sores on his legs and was being in the home by Extramural care. Finally we had to call an ambulance and have him taken to Emergency. He was diagnosed with Critical loss of blood circulation in his right leg and LIVER CANCER involving 1/3 of his liver.
At 90 there was great debate in the hospital about treating a 90 year old man with so many conditions of which anyone of them could kill him at any moment. You see my dad is a very intelligent and mentally functioning man. He still pays his bills on line with an iPad. The medical staff are all amazed at how sharp of mind he is.
They performed the same procedure on his right leg as they did for my mother. He now has improved blood flow in his lower legs reducing the pain and starting the healing.
Dad, my 2 bothers and I had a meeting with the Oncologist regarding the Liver Cancer. He was a great Doctor and explained everything in a gentle way to all of us. He made it a point to say he questioned the wisdom of the other Doctors in treating Dad's circulation but he said after he met dad and interviewed he now agrees with their decision. 
Unfortunately Dad's Liver Cancer is not treatable as his age and multitude of medical issue would just make him suffer and not accomplish any improvement. The Oncologist mentioned dad's options will be Palliative or Hospice care when the time comes. He is currently in the hospital.
Dad has made great improvement in the last week as always he continues to shock his Doctors. This morning the Unit Doctor told us Dad is not ready for Palliative! They are going to heal the sores on his legs and get him ready for a nursing home. He is one fighter.
On July 1st Mom and Dad celebrated their 69th wedding Anniversary in the Dialysis department in the hospital.
Sorry this is so long.
Remember if you have someone in your life you love you better tell them.
So I love you all....................in a family way!
Wayne aka WeednFeed
 

LOl so many great COD5 players I tell ya. 

Let start with your clan name? E-raser
    Do you have any nicknames? Personal or in game?  'E'
    When and where were you born?  Northern Michigan Jan 1954
    When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? No idea, living day-to-day
    Where have you lived? Northern Michigan / South East Michigan
     
    What got you into gaming? Video Arcades
    Your first game you played? On the PC, Duke Nukem
    And what do you play now? Mostly COD5 WAW FT (XI servers) / Oculus VR WW1 air combat
    Why did you join XI? Met some great people while playing COD, so wanted to be a part of the community
    What do you get from being in this clan? Meeting some great people from around the world , daily socializing
    What is your favorite hobby? I have many off and on.. just now getting in photography
    What is your favorite travel destination? Grand Cayman, but haven't been back there in a long time
    Are you married? Yes    
    Do you have children? Yes, a son and daughter - both of them married and moved out.
    What kind of pets do you have, if any? What are their names?  Used to have a cat (since passed) but now only some fish(guppies).
    Are you a sports fan? If so, what is your favorite team? No not really into sports.
    What causes are you passionate about? People taking responsibility for their actions.
    Do you volunteer? If so, where? No
    What is an interesting fact about you? None that I'm aware of.
    Have you continued your education past college or university with career development seminars or classes? What kind? I'm a lot into self learning.  While many people took up golf and hitting the bars , I actually enjoy reading tech books and 'how to books' (not much of a social life ??  Having an electrical background in vocational high school, I taught myself computer programming starting with machine language.  Then 'C' ... this progressed later into my work career.
    
    Did you know what profession you wanted to work in when you started college? No idea, Was getting married and only knew I needed a job. Only had about 4-months of college(dropped out for job) then found a job in the Airline Ground handling sector, which turned into a career 43-years
    Did you belong to any professional organizations? A couple unions through work.
    What is your current job title? Retired
    Did you win any awards or recognitions during your education? Runner up in Michigans 1972 State Electronics Design competition (4th place).
    Where do you work? Retired now since 31DEC2016 - before that North Central Airlines / Republic Airlines / Northwest Airlines and finally Delta Airlines..  Actually 'same-airline' just through multiple mergers.
    What other job titles have you had in your career? Grocery Store bagger / shelf stocking / resort dish washer
    Where else have you worked? Local small grocery store / Local resort
    Why did you choose to work in your industry? Airlines, just needed a job - ended up loving it.
    Why do you like your job? My job 'retired' .. love not having daily must do work routines / no time management
    How would you describe your career? 'my life' , good parts and bad.
    What are some accomplishments you've achieved during your career? Started with the airline basics.. loading unloading planes/jets - working weight and balance - worked air freight handling / tariffs , billing.  Worked in employee scheduling and administration.  Used my computer programming skills to stream line some of our work processes.. this let to a position working with I.T. and mainframe programming.
    Describe a time that your career was rewarding. Others that recognized my value and appreciated my input / work.
    If you could give a younger person career advice, what would it be? Unknown to me at the time, in high school we had to take a semester of typing. I was pretty good at it because my penmanship is horrendous.  My typing skills then came to play at work when our weight and balance computerized.  Other employees struggled with the 'hunt-n-pick' typing method.
    What is your favorite thing about your career or industry? Discounted travel , however others don't realize that it has challenges as well.  Your not guaranteed getting a seat.  This can be a process when trying to book hotels and car rentals - especially those with no refunds.  Many times your left behind at the airport.
    What is a valuable lesson you learned in your career? This may sound racist, however growing up in Northern Michigan, I think there was only one black family.  All my folks knew was what they read in the newspapers about the Detroit Riots in the 60's, so I feel their understanding was tainted.  When they knew I was moving to the Detroit area for work they instilled in me a fear about the area and people.  Actually when I started working at the Airport I learned really quick there are good and bad in all of our different groups.  I worked with the Black, Asian, Arab, Latino people.  I made some great friends in all of the groups.
    I also became more sensitive to their particular backgrounds and history. We all have the same fears and wants out of life and family.
    What do you hope to accomplish in your career? I'm retired... I hope I left the place in better shape than when I started.
    Are you involved in any professional/ non-profit/sports organizations? If so, do you have a title or rank within these organizations? none
    What is your favorite sport? none
    Do you play any sports? no
    If you were granted 1 wish, what would you wish for? To start life over again, knowing the lessons I've now already learned along the way.
    If you won a very large amount of money what would you do? Probably do more traveling and give a bunch away.
 Quote: Listen to the quiet people, they are the ones with something to say....

Happy Birthday and cheers to many more ..

Forecast now includes rain, haven't mowed my yard in three weeks. Wind picked up yesterday, but still hazy.

I live 40 miles from the crash site.

On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. The event later became known as The Day the Music Died after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song American Pie .
 




 

Let start with your clan name?
    BDS1961   Every name I tried came up as being taken already when I first started  this is what I came up with so I could play and never changed it
        Do you have any nicknames? Personal or in game?
    In games it’s either Beads or some cuss word after I shoot someone
        When and where were you born? Aurora Illinoise  atleast that’s what the sales slip says that I came with
        When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
    Loved working with my hands and wood  wanted to do cabinet making
        Where have you lived? Pretty much my entire life in Concord Ca
         
        What got you into gaming?
    Sadly I have had to do a lot of sitting around recovering from multiple knee surgeries and treatments   It gave me something to do instead of going crazy   I hate sitting around with a passion
        Your first game you played?  Lol   Does Load runner count
        And what do you play now?
    I mostly play COD 2   The group of people I play with here on XI  are a great group of people  sadly over the last few years I have lost what I consider some good online friends I have played with for years
        Why did you join XI?
    I use to lay on the FBI server a long time ago  they started getting more and more hackers 0laying to where it was no fun at all   Found XI and have never left  great people and players and the admins do a great job keeping it clean of cheats
        What do you get from being in this clan?
    A sense of on line family and friends to play with on a daily bases   Such a broad range of personalities it’s always fun to play and talk with
        What is your favorite hobby?
    Have way to many   Wood working and metal work , radio control planes and boats, electronics and I use to shoot competition years ago   Trying to get back into all of them now
        What is your favorite travel destination?  
    I am happy on the go, we just purchased a cabin up in the mountains and have been enjoying that a lot lately  but a lot of work getting it ready so we can go up any time and have friends come up and enjoy it with us. We also have a house in Greece we are hoping to be able to get over to this summer, we use it as a home base to go to the islands and play
        Are you married?
    Yes coming up on 29 years
        Do you have children?
    Yes  a son who is 26 and a Daughter that is 21
        What kind of pets do you have, if any? What are their names?
    we have a Bichon frise that absolutely hates me, even though she comes to me for anything she needs and then three cats
        Are you a sports fan? If so, what is your favorite team?   
    Not a real big sports fan
        What causes are you passionate about?
    Don't really have any causes I’d say I’m passionate about spent to many years taking care of and dealing with the public
        Do you volunteer? If so, where?
    No  unless having to cook for everyone in my house
        What is an interesting fact about you?
    It’s a strange thing but for some reason I deal with emergencies and bad things really easily and efficiently. In my career In the facilities I over saw I have had to deal with everything from earthquakes to murders suicides and drunks. Can handle it all at the time and make clear decisions for needs to be done, but then I pay the huge price when it’s done the next day and what all I had to deal with and see hits me

        Have you continued your education past college or university with career development seminars or classes? What kind?
    I never went to college, but I have a ton of specialized training that covers a wide variety   From just about everything related to HVAC and the equipment for operating it, trained in lighting and control systems  and then some really specialized training I had to go through for some of the areas I did work in that I cannot fully mention   
        Did you know what profession you wanted to work in when you started college?
    i was heading into law enforcement and had just been accepted into the CHP academy. Sadly shortly after being accepted I blew my new out and never made it. I had planned on going to college and getting a degree in aeronautical engineering, after that   Signed up for the class’s and that’s when I had my first knee surgery stopping me from attending, registered again for the next year and had my second knee surgery stopping me once again, this happened the following year again. At that point I took another path
        Did you belong to any professional organizations?
    only one I was a member of was a group for engineers in the SF Bay Area
        What is your current job title?
    Retired now   Had to have a knee replaced that ended my career at 52 years old
        Did you win any awards or recognitions during your education?
    In high school I did get a lot of awards for things I had built and designed
        Where do you work?
    At home
        What other job titles have you had in your career?
    I have always been around facilities, I was a maintenance manager at a bullocks store, the building was sold and I was sold along with it (lol)  Nordstroms had bought it and put me into management with them in a engineering capacity, I prepped and opened the original 5 stores in the SF Bay Area , from there I opened a luxury hotel as a chief engineer. From there it was just a full run
        Where else have you worked?
    I  had my own construction business for about 16 years after I was done with the hotel work, my clients where hospitals, PG&E, UC Berkeley a Few cities and a little bit of residential work along with working with attorneys and specialist on construction lawsuits. Having kids I needed something more stable and not as many hours as I was putting in. I went into the apartment industry and was a regional engineering manager covering facilities from Monterey CA to Seattle Washington  10,000 units of apartments,  I did all inspections and over saw the quality of the on site work done by the staff and there training  along with that I put together yearly capital project and ran them in the range from 15 million to 35 million every year . Also I was head of disaster for the northwest region in case any thing happened   ( no stress in my life )
        Why did you choose to work in your industry?
    it was strange but it seemed to choose me
        Why do you like your job?
    I liked all the areas I have worked   Always something new everyday. Things that I was able to see and be around when contracting was amazing
        How would you describe your career?
    Fun but stressful   Now that I have been out of it for a while I can not figure out how I was able to carry such a huge load and get it all done    I don’t think I could do that now
        What are some accomplishments you've achieved during your career?
    I think the one thing that I am most proud of is how many people I was able to advance in there career, At one of the hotels I was hired to clean up and get running again I was given the option to completely replace the maintenance staff, I kept them, worked with them and created a highly effective team there.  Getting people to grow is a great feeling
        Describe a time that your career was rewarding.
    I always found it extremely rewarding when called in for problems and being able to resolve them.  As simple as figuring out why when someone flushed there toilet in a high rise it would affect 3 floors of showers. The company had specialist looking at it for months and couldn’t figure it out, I fixed it in one day of going through the systems.  In my career I had a few times I cured issues with newly built buildings
        If you could give a younger person career advice, what would it be?
    don’t go in thinking you know it all   Listen to everyone around you and even the old crazy guy, the amount that you can learn is amazing, even today if I was working I would not ever claim how much I know and still listen to all involved in a project
        What is your favorite thing about your career or industry?
    something new every day
        What is a valuable lesson you learned in your career?
    how to deal with people
        What do you hope to accomplish in your career?
    Its a wrap   I do get called once in awhile to help cover some projects when there are problems are something special is needed.  Just do it once in a great while
        Are you involved in any professional/ non-profit/sports organizations? If so, do you have a title or rank within these organizations?
    nope
        What is your favorite sport?
    Not a big sports fan, from the damage I did to my knee I have over a 40 history of physical therapy   Have seen to many sport injuries in young people pushing it to hard. Just turned me off to the give all cloture of sports
        Do you play any sports?
    nope
        If you were granted 1 wish, what would you wish for?
    that people would mellow out and learn how to enjoy each other instead of stepping on each other for gain
        If you won a very large amount of money what would you do?
    ohh how do you know I don’t have it already  lol   I don’t think I’d change a thing in what I do or how I live. I’m the type of guy that can be super happy with a beer and a fishing pole sitting by the lake, don’t really need any th8ng fancy

so last year i bought a electric scooter that goes 25km and just today i now got a mini motorcycle that goes 32km what ya think 

The forecast for next week is rain for 6 days in a row , smoke here will get down but i hope up north they gonna have enough rain to slow down these wild fires..((.temp in celcius and 25mm equal one inch of rain.))

not a wonder your having heart attacks. Just want to mention this I hope you know but porn is free on the interweb. So I m told I'm a virgin by trade. Gota keep my value up