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[K. Pruitt]

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> On Friday 27 February 2015 15:22:54 K. Pruitt wrote:
>> > As a spectator sport, watching Kalifornia politics was very 
>> > entertaining
>> > the
>> > last time I was out there at the turn of the 80's for 4 years, 2 in
>> > Redding
>> > at KRCR-TV and 2 out in Lassen county as CE at the KSUE radio complex.
>> >
>> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>> > --
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>> It doesn't look any less insane from inside than it does from outside. 
>> It
>> has just intensified over the years.
>>
>> All any Californian can do is apologetically point out that they're not
>> from California originally (nobody is from California apparently) and 
>> point
>> out that we have very nice weather here.  There just is no defending the
>> insanity that is California.
>
> Or the insanity of their bill collectors. I started my 2nd daughter in CA, 
> and
> had Annie get a checkup.  They immediately billed us for the successfull
> delivery of the child despite the fact that she was born 7 months later 
> after
> we went back to Iowa and was never again seen by any medical people in CA.
>
> I battled with them for about 6 months, and finally told the hospital 
> where
> the original bill came from, to go right ahead and sue, because I would 
> sue
> them (not the bill collector) for treble damages including to my credit
> rating, and all attorney fees involved. That finally got their attention.
>
> I must have been crazy to ever go back there again, but I was following a
> different woman, who after 17 years drove off & left me a year after I 
> came
> to WV to the best job I'd ever had.  I was so glad that I stopped on my 
> way
> to the room she had rented for me and had moved all my stuff into, got a 6
> pack and had a private little party to celebrate, my hellish life at her
> hands had essentially come to an end.  But that bitch is still a headache
> when we crossed paths just this past December at my sons services.  He'd
> tried to prove he could still drive his KIA sedan at 100+ mph with a quart 
> of
> whisky in him.
>
> Tried her darnedest to act concerned.  She was never his mother in actions 
> or
> attitude, and I blame me 100% for the hell I put my 1st 3 children thru by
> bringing her home to play house.  Why the he!! she thought she had any
> business showing up for his services is beyond my understanding.  I feel a
> lonesomeness for my first family.  The woman, Annie Lucille, had a stroke 
> at
> age 34 and died in '68, the 2 girls she gave me are now long gone from
> cancer, and now the son she so enthusiastically gave me is gone too.  All 
> I
> have left to trace it are 2 or 3 pictures of a very happy period in my 
> life.
> She made sure none of them she could find survived her.
>
> FWIW, Dee and I celebrated our 25th back on Dec 2nd. It has been and still 
> is,
> a _good_ quarter century. She is frugal to a fault so we have some money 
> in
> the bank, the place is paid off now for 16 or 17 years, and other than the
> frailties that go with being an 80yo arthritic DM-II, I'm good to go 
> another
> 25 years with her if we are lucky.
> Yeah, I know, TMI.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> -- 

Those are some tough losses, Gene.  You have my deepest sympathies.

Congrats on your 25th anniversary.

My wife's great uncle passed away last year just short of his 104th 
birthday.
I asked his niece, my mother-in-law, why she thought he lived so long.  She 
said he had a very happy-go-lucky attitude.
This guy was rescued from a pit of dead bodies during WWII.  A villager saw 
him twitch or something and the allies nursed him back to health.
So essentially nothing life could throw at him compared to what he'd been 
through already.  He was a chef and ate good food and drank good wine and 
both in generous amounts up until shortly before his passing.  This tells me 
that longevity is a lot about attitude.

So honestly, another 25 years isn't out of the question.  And enjoying your 
life while outliving those you dislike is always the best revenge.