[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by lovsthosebigdogs

My borzoi were onstage with the Philadelphia Ballet in a production of Giselle. We got to hang out backstage with all the ballerinas and ballerinos.

Those are great looking dogs. I hope that they meet the borzoi I have seen walking on Churchill Downs every so often. Have not seen this pooch in a few months.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

I drew about 20 patients at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hospital in Reno, Nevada. These were working off photos by a talented photographer. I had been volunteering there for a year of Saturdays to see if I wanted to go into medicine. This was around 1977-1978.

When I left they had to hire a University of Nevada, Reno art student to come and draw the patients because new patients would want their pictures on the wall too.

This was on the intensive care unit so some of the patients I drew during that period died during that 1977-1978 period.

The oldest was from the Spanish-American War and must have been nearing 100. The youngest was a Vietnam War veteran who had played walrus with a pool stick and gotten bumped so that the stick went up his nose into his brain.

I still draw portraits once in a while but am very rusty.

I had had an art show while at Earl Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada in 1976 but the art teacher forced me to put up my drawing of a cactus with cactus spelled out under it. I had misspelled cactus with "cacutus" insisting that the "u" was silent. Nobody said much of anything except that my English teacher Mrs. Barbara Mitchell wanted a drawing of a model I had done--working off a magazine picture-- which she said looked like her recently deceased daughter Michelle Mitchell.

This drawing looked just like a married woman I worked with at Information Access Company (IAC) from 1984-1986. This company was in Belmont, CA about 20 miles south of San Francisco and about 7 miles north of Palo Alto.

I entered law school at the University of Minnesota in 1986 and there was a woman Mary Jane W., in the "C" group of about 50 law students who looked hauntingly like the drawing and like the woman I had worked with at Information Access Company. MJW also seemed smart, funny and kind. The U of MN woman though was much thinner and more elf like than the IAC marketing pro.

I became a little obsessed with this U of MN Law Student MJW but she always treated me nicely and with respect. I made a few passes - some very ungainly and immature-- but we went our separate ways in 1989.

In 1992, in San Francisco at the American Association of Law Libraries convention that summer I went looking for employment in a law library.

The woman from IAC --the married woman-- was pitching their product the Legal Resource Index to law librarians. As I said, she had been in the marketing department at IAC.

One of the law librarians, Suzanne T., from the University of Minnesota Law School approached this IAC woman and asked her what she was doing in San Francisco at a law library convention. She had mistaken these two blonde women-- the IAC marketing lady and the U of MN Law Grad. Michelle Mitchell had been a redhead but the drawing I did was all in pencil so it made her look like she could have been a blonde. Pretty much the whole U of MN Law School body, including Suzanne T., had known I had had a crush on this elfish blonde law student MJW.

I never mentioned the drawing though nor any resemblances until maybe 2002.

We three U of MN law school grads were all Class of 1989 but the Law Librarian Suzanne T., still employed at the U of MN Law Library had mistaken identities and the IAC woman then explained that I had had a crush on yet another blonde Sandy--single though when I was there- at IAC.

It is strange what affects a drawing done in youth can have.

I tried a few times to get the lady lawyer Mary Jane W., who graduated from the U of MN Law School to help with my access to practical information for survivors of crimes project 224 613, but she just would send it back "return to sender" or threaten me with stalking cease and desist orders for no reason so I just gave up. I thought threatening stalking charges was really extreme especially when all I did was write a few letters with copies of letters I had received from various authorities. There was not much of a personal nature in any of them. The picture I did in high school that looked like three women-- Michelle Mitchell, the IAC marketing woman, and Mary Jane W (Class of 1989, U of MN Law School) still haunted me back then and still haunts me now.

I have not seen this picture though since visiting the Mitchell home around May of 1976 to give them it and offer them my condolences for their murdered daughter (killed on 2-24 in 1976) and thank them for a small scholarship they gave me and another Earl Wooster High School student., John P. This Scholarhsip was a Memorial Scholarship in Michelle Mitchell's name. Michelle Mitchell had been murdered on the night of my birthday of 2-24 in 1976 near the University of Nevada, Reno campus. The case was re-opened a few months ago in 2014 as it looks like her murder is related to a series of slayings in the San Francisco Bay area in January-April of 1976 called the Gypsy Hill murders. Gypsy Hill Murders - Overview

This is one of the drawings I did of the youngest VFW Hospital Reno patient I did around 1977. He did not like this one evidently as they would have kept it. I believe I had had to draw a few of him before he liked one. I was trying different mediums. This one was black ink. Most of my best art work I gave away like the drawings to patients at the VFW Hospital.

[jim1941]

I graduated Cum Lucky from college!!

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by jim1941

I graduated Cum Lucky from college!!

I finished just short of that.

[tippyclubb]

Years ago Tom bought a Harley Davidson Softail. We rode this bike everywhere and I decided I wanted to learn to ride my own. Huge mistake as my sense of balance must be bad.

I took the class and passed. We bought a old small Honda for me to practice and a few days later I tipped it over and hurt my arm. A few months passed and thought I would try Toms bike without asking him. Yes, I tipped this one over too. The bike was on top of me and broke my foot and a lot of damage was done to the bike. Tom was furious with me and my wanna be HD riding days were over.

After this my friends started calling me Tippy and my last name is Clubb. So now you know how I got my screen name.

[DougB]

Originally Posted by Lovey2

I am an Army brat, and lived all over with my family. We traveled a lot and my Dad thought it was bad to read in a moving vehicle. To amuse myself, I started reading signs backwards. Subsequently, I can read and pretty much repeat any word you throw at me in reverse. And no, NOT supercalifragilisticexpealidocious....unless I'm looking at it... . Some smarty pants tried that once...hahaha!!

ǝʌǝɹ ʇʎdǝ ndsıpǝ poʍu ɐup qɐɔʞʍɐɹps˙

[Lovey2]

Originally Posted by DougB

ǝʌǝɹ ʇʎdǝ ndsıpǝ poʍu ɐup qɐɔʞʍɐɹps˙

CRAZY!! How'd ya do that??

[DougB]

Originally Posted by Lovey2

CRAZY!! How'd ya do that??

How to Type Upside Down - Make your text upside down!

[DougB]

Originally Posted by jdsl1998

Post a random fact about yourself....keep it clean(ish)!

I was born a nudist. Hospital quickly put a stop to it.

[Villages PL]

I'm learning how to play the piano.

[TheVillageChicken]

My great aunt, Delphine Ducloux was a medicine woman and the last fluent speaker of Chitimatcha, the language of a Louisiana Indian Tribe.

[Susan G]

Originally Posted by lovsthosebigdogs

My borzoi were onstage with the Philadelphia Ballet in a production of Giselle. We got to hang out backstage with all the ballerinas and ballerinos.

Love this...very cool

[justjim]

Shortly after retirement in 1999 I shot 72 (par) at Monarch Golf Course south of Leesburg. I had a fifteen handicap and had a double bogey on the first hole. You are not suppose to do that---never have done it again.

[Susan G]

You would never guess from my Avatar (Lol) but...I hold 16 IGFA World Records for Saltwater Fly Fishing. Translation for my non-fishing TOTV'ers " I catch BIG fish in the Gulf of Mexico on very light fly tackle."

[duffysmom]

I ran the NYC Marathon to celebrate my 47th birthday. I've been resting on that laurel ever since.