So last Saturday I was flipping through the channels and came across Used Cars. This movie has a special place in my heart because I remember when it was filmed here in Mesa, in 1979. Most everyone went down to get into the movie some how, and they had a lot of large crowd scenes. But one night they needs some people to play certain roles in the file. That might my dad was chosen to be one of three FBI agents. He said the hardest thing was that the Actor Gerrit Graham was so funny that he had them laughing all the time. To set up the scene, They have just hacked the Presidential Speech and the FBI is there to investigate what happened.
Because my parents had signed up to be extra in the film, they were put on a list. And were called to do another movie. They were also called to do commercial, and one time they took use along and got all of use in a Visa commercial, that I never saw. They filmed it at Sky Harbor Airport and we worked half the day and got paid $50 each and all the donuts we wanted. The bonus was I got to miss half a day of school.
Thanks to Dave Riddle for uploading this on YouTube.
After having a interview with a church leader last weekend, I am tired of people assuming that they know me. That I keep on being told, I am make poor decisions in my life, when they have no I did what I have gone through or what I am dealing with now. Really did not need this in my life right now, when in just a few weeks I come out of training and start my normal schedule for the next few months.
Over the past month I have been to two baptisms, two farewells and a home coming. It reminds me of what I do not have in my life, children. I also have had my 44th birthday, which I spent on my own. My marriage of 22 years is gone, and I really have nothing to show that I am here. But I have been living some what an oddity in the Mormon Church. Having been married for so long, with no kids, you just don't get the feeling that you are part of the church family. I have set in many a Priesthood Class, hearing the teacher tell how special it is to be a father, and how closer to God you are. I really have not made a lot of friends in these wards, because I have no kids that are in the same Primary Class, Sunday School Class, or Mutual. It even feels like the newly married couple, when they do get pregnant, that they are now one up on me. A few years ago, our Ward did away with the Family Camp Out. But what stayed were the father/daughter and the father/ sons camp outs. For
In 2008 I received a degree in Political Science from Arizona State University. When I was think back in high school what I would major in, it was down to history and political science. I did not see very many career opportunities. With political science, I could see myself serving in the Government. I really want to work for the State Department, hopefully in an embassy some where around the world. Plus I always had been interesting in politics. In 1976 I wrote then, new elected Jimmy Carter a letter, saying so much congratulating him for becoming the President. OK, I was seven, and I thought it was great that a guy from Georgia, at that time the state next door to Tennessee, was President. I got a note back from him, thanking me writing. OK, so the signature probably was done by auto pin, and some how a chocolate stain got on it, probably from a fudge bar, this is still one of my priced pieces. All through school, I wanted to serve as one of the class reps to Student Co
I couldn't even tell which one was our Dad....don't recognize him without gray hair.
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