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.
A few days ago, I was reminded that I started this blog 7 years ago. It started out as a place I could relieve the pressure I was feeling in my head. It was a suggestion from my friend Gary. I have shared a lot about me, and still have a lot to share. I have seen a lot of changes in that 7 years. So here are a few. This blog was started out in one of the tough times in my life. I was getting divorced, losing the house and losing the business that I had started with my dad. Things did not get better for me until October 2014, when I finally got the job with the Airlines and found a good place to live. Got really sick in 2016, and was out of work for two months. When I finally went home dragging an oxygen tank around. It took a lot of hard work, but I was able to get off the oxygen 6 months later. After 23 years I started dating again, which was hard. I found a few women that I reall...
One of the games that the mind likes to play, when we are down, is the what if game. It makes us wonder what would are world be like if we had taken a different path. And I have a few what ifs. Before my mom died about 10 years ago, she told me that after moving back to the States, they almost did not move to Chattanooga, Tennessee. At the time, there were a lot of race riots happening, and this was happen in Chattanooga. Her parents wanted her to move to Boise, Idaho. So I wonder what it would have been like to grow up in Boise, not the South? Would my life be completely different? Would we have ever moved to Arizona? What if I had not change my mind and gone to BYU and not Arizona State? Would I be working for the Government? Would I be working to make real changes to our Government? What if I had called the girl of my dreams, when she gave me her number? Would I have married my ex wife? What if I would have meet my gi...
Some notes I wrote down, when the Movie Noah came out a few years ago. I found all of this in the Pearl of Great Price, another set of Scriptures that the Jesus of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!!! Noah was 450 years old when Japheth was born, 492 year old when Shem was born and 500 when Ham was born. Moses 8:12 Noah was to cry repentance unto the people. He was give 125 years to get the people to repent. Moses 8:17 Noah Father is 777 years old when he dies. Moses 8:11 Noah was 182 when his father died. In the Movie, it shows Noah out with his father, Lamech, performing a ceremony, and is killed by a group of men. The Scriptures are vague on this, but the movie makes Noah out to be a teenage when his father dies and that is not true. Noah had brothers and sisters. Moses 8:10
I couldn't even tell which one was our Dad....don't recognize him without gray hair.
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