Underground Car Guy

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...

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...

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

One of the things that I really don't talk about is growing up in Tennessee. Of all of the 200 plus stories I have written here, I have only 3 about my childhood there.  We moved to Chattanooga when I was three months old,  just after my dad had gotten out of the Air Force.  From what my mom, told me, we almost did not live there, because of the racial tension of the time.  My earliest memories of there is when we lived in East Ridge.  I remember we lived off of Close Rd.  This is also the place that my sister was born and my first experience with race cars, motorcycles, and classic cars.  I remember that we only had a one car garage at the time, and that my dad had a Porsche Speedster in it.  At the time we had a cat that went missing for a few days.  well after a while we found her with her kittens in the Speedster.  In 1974 we moved up to Harbor Circle, where we lived until we moved in 1978 to Arizona.  The Harbor Circle hou...