Reflecting on the past

I went to a high school graduation party yesterday, and it got me thinking back to when I was in high school.
Thinking about the sporting events I attended, classes I had, teachers I had and mostly the friends I had.
It was different times back then in the 1970's, you didn't have cell phones, I pods, Cd's and computers, just to mention a few things.
We went to the bowling alley to bowl, shoot pool, play Foosball and hang out with friends.
If you wanted to talk to someone you had to either go over to their house, meet them someplace, or call them on the rotary phone.
Our music was played on cassettes, vinyl records, or 8 tracks.
Using an electric typewriter was the closest thing you had to a computer.
You could take your girlfriend out to a drive-in-movie, that's a place where you could drive your car, park it in a parking spot, then you would take a speaker off the pole that was holding it, set the speaker in the window of your car and watch a movie on a huge screen.
It seemed like the 70's were less complicated, people were a lot more laid back. You didn't have to worry about drive by shootings, kids coming to school with guns, unless they were going wild game hunting after school, metal detectors and security camera's.
You could go over to your friends house and stay there till dark, then walk home without worrying if you were going to be mugged or shot.
Gas was cheaper to buy, you could fill you 20gal gas tank up with regular gas for about $12.00.
Times have changed greatly since I was in school some for the better and some for the worse.
If I can give you one piece of advice, it's enjoy your years in school, they are precious and you will never get them back!

From then to now.

Hi!
This is Randy and I just want to tell you a little bit about myself.
I have three wonderful grandchildren, two boys and a girl who I love to death.
I live in a small town in central Wisconsin, it's a nice place, but not a lot of thing going on, isn't that like all small towns though?
We have a golden lab named Dido who is 11 years old (that 77 in dog years) so you can imagine just how hard it is for her to get around these days.
I have a son who is in the USAF, one that is going to college to become a police officer and a daughter who is a pharmacy tech. My wife and I are very proud of how our children have turned out, especially with all the temptations that are among kids these days.
I have quite a few relatives that live around by us, which makes it nice during family gatherings (you don't have to travel so far) it makes for a tighter family relationship too.
I try not to have favorites when it comes to relatives, because it make things so much easier that way.
I've done a lot of different things in my life from insulating houses, working in factories to driving semi's. I've been laid off, downsized, and skipped over for promotions. I've traveled to other countries setting up machines and much more. I won't bore you with all the details. Out of all the thing I have done I have never found the right job, you know, the job that you can't wait to go to in the morning and don't want to leave at the end of the day. Yes, there is such a job out there for everyone, and one day hopefully all you will be able to find one like that. In March of this year I was laid off like thousand of other people, so my nephew (Lucas Walters ) and I decided to try working on websites. You wouldn't believe all the stuff you have to know to get a site going (Major headache!) we did finally get a site developed, and after talking to some experts in the field we took it down, live and learn....
Lucas and I decided to go down a different avenue and now we are working with online marketing thru social media. Our goal is to perfect this, so we are able to share out experiences and skills with our family and friends. We are working on being able to literally make a living from home!!!
When we do it we hope to see you there with us! If you would like to take a peek at what we are working on, take a look! http://bit.ly/25Vy3