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Tuesday June 14, 2016 · 9:25 AM PDT

2016/06/14 · 09:25

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"Sign on the dotted line, it's gonna work out fine"

Joeshittheragman

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Monday January 14, 2013 · 7:17 AM PST

2013/01/14 · 07:17

JSTRM opens the door to the "WayBack" machine once again and it sparkled me back to 1975 and the job at the cemetery. Which was a bit of a non starter, cause I got fired/layed off after a few weeks of labor.

But my job at Happy Joes Pizza and Ice Cream Parlor was secure and I was well loved for my skills and light hearted look at life. I was a junior at Central High in Davenport; in the midst of teen angst, teen joy, and a mastery of life. A helion with a 10 speed Schwinn Raleigh.

"Your asvab test turned out good" said Gary Gemmond my recruiter. "You can get any rate you want except the nuke program". I had hoped for the nuke program; those mysterious squints with their 2 years of training and their promises of instant jobs with a nuke power plant after getting out. Voltaire has Paris and I had math that vexed me....

I choose rate and picked my fate and went into the AFTA program(advanced first term avionics). What could possibly go wrong....?

I are Joeshittheragman

Joeshittheragman

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Sunday January 13, 2013 · 7:31 AM PST

2013/01/13 · 07:31

I are joe shit the ragman...henceforth to be known as JSTRM. Why such a moniker?

'twas the days of old and knights where bold,
And knights were bold; rubbers weren't invented,
They placed a sock upon the kock and babies were prevented"...

That is the motto of JSTRM

I am a child of the Cold War, it's rumored that somewhere a group of former soviet special forces still seek the head of JSTRM, to no avail of course. I stumbled thru 20+ years of service in the name of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Raygun, Bill Clinton.

My quest started in 1976; driving along Locust Avenue in Davenport Iowa. "Philadelphia Feedom" by Elton John playing on my 8track player. Bicentennial flags everywhere, placed in freedoms name, flew as I flew towards the future....

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