From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017022518400265622-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > yep.  you can find the Cleveland NOAA radar on the net and watch the   
   > storms roll by me.   
      
   More like watch the storms roll over you ;)   
   What is it about the east? The further into it one goes, the worse it gets.   
      
   > challenge, question, tomatoe .....   
      
   I guess I'm only trying to understand why anyone intent on the 'big time',   
   upon getting right to the threshold of it, would decide to say goodbye to   
   their dream, turn about and walk away from it without at least first going   
   ahead with it and if they found it really wasn't for them after all, Then   
   turn around and leave it behind.   
   I'd mentioned that the further east one goes, the worse it gets...this  is   
   largely because for a little over 4 months, I was a long haul trucker and I   
   was in many of the eastern states...including Ohio, I thought I could make a   
   living and afford things if I drove big trucks, like my private pilot ticket   
   for example, so I trained up in Green Bay, WI with Schneider National for 2   
   weeks and the  next thing I knew, I was in Cherry Hill, NJ coming out of a   
   rest stop walking out to this enormous Real Monster truck, with 18 wheels,   
   freaking out and telling myself that there's no way I'm driving that, even   
   around my neck of the woods, much less the east coast where I've never even   
   been before, much less get a big rig down the bicycle path size roads there!   
   But I found myself climbing up, getting in, starting it, and pulling away.   
   It was like watching a Horror movie, and/or a nightmare...and I was IN it.   
   But I just *had* to try it to actually learn what was in store, NO MONEY,   
   total Rip Off - 22 CENTS a mile and *long* Difficult miles at that...I could   
   explain more of the Horrors of it but I'd probably get too stressed out all   
   over again, remembering something that I'd much rather forget!   
   After some 4 months of this  TORTURE, I came to the conclusion  that I HAD   
   HAD ENOUGH!!! So I quit, with very little money, and therefore no private   
   pilot ticket, but LOTS of Stress to show for it - If stress was considered   
   as valuable as money, and it certainly should be, there's so very much of   
   it, I'd be Very Rich!   
   But in any case, I did check it out, gave it the old college try, and   
   learned, albeit the hard way, that it wasn't for me....but I had to discover   
   that for myself, personally, so just guessing and walking away beforehand   
   simply would not do.   
      
   > I've been watching videos lately on the competition to have the fastest   
   > land vehicle.  Bonnieville and such.  Some of those came to mind while   
   > thinking about your comment.  Early on, the people who built and raced   
   > cars died a lot.   Same with pioneers of aviation. Doing things that   
   > hadn't been done, and learning that some things won't work. Might even   
   > kill you.   
      
   That's been true of pioneers ever since there were pioneers...you do your   
   best, believing wholeheartedly in the cause at hand, pray for the best,   
   prepare for the worst, damn the torpedoes, and GO FOR IT! ;)   
      
   > Maybe it's a youth thing, to believe you are invincible.   
      
   No, that's not the motive, it's believing in what you're doing, having   
   confidence in yourself, and of course faith in God that your efforts will be   
   Blessed.   
      
   > By the time I was 30. I was real sure I wasn't.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   One could use that same position to justify their hiding under their bed too   
   )   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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