Tub of lard, huh? LOL. That photo was taken in 2005. I have solid arms and legs. Just a bit of safety fat around my waist.
We all have limited time left on earth. Seems we are both posting on Getbig so what is your point?
You really are a sad, lonely person. Have you ever been in a relationship with a woman? Do you have any children? Do you own any property?
You are the black sheep in your family. Everyone else got married and have children.
I was married for 30 years but in business with my ex for 46 years. I recall that you wanted to set up a studio there in Hawaii. Nope not
even a tanning studio. You don't have the resources to open a gym or studio. What happened to that job in the hardware store?
That Mills place is another hardware chain. Not that great for a university grad.
My biceps-supinator machine was patented. Show me any other champion bodybuilder who designed and built such a complex machine.
It is by far the best biceps machine ever built. I have made major modifications to the machine since the photo was taken.
Your perception of yourself is one of the many reasons people find you delusional. Of course, all our time in this life is limited. You even more so because you are so old. You've exceeded the average life span for a man so good for you, but you are on borrowed time. I would think you would want to spend it more wisely.
So, now, like conker, you are just copying my lines. People have a fairly good idea of my life from the over decade I've been posting on this board. I hardly think anybody truly believes I am sad and lonely. You now know with certainty that I come from a big family. And it doesn't just stop there when you count my other Catholic breeding relatives here on the island. As for you, you live in the past. No recent pics of you with anyone. Just one time thumbs up pics of bbers you knew in the 70s and 80s.
And your senility is really setting in. I've spoken many times over the years about my past marriage and you even asked about it specifically some years back. I think it might have been on IronAge. No, I don't have children, which you may, should have, remembered was the reason my marriage ended. She wanted children of her own and I wanted to adopt. My profession gave me a very dim view of the world and I soon concluded there is far, far more bad than good in this world and I couldn't bring a new life into the world with a clear conscious. But I was happy to provide for someone less fortunate and adopt. Still, I'm not sure what kind of status having children gives one and you think is something to brag about. Anybody can have children. There are far more people who do have children shouldn't but that's another subject.
It was a chasm that couldn't be reconciled with.
BTW, I am not the only one that does not have children. I also have a brother, a colonel in the Army, that is also without any children. Your research seems to be rather spotty.
I never wanted to set up a "studio" in Hawaii. I'm not even sure what kind of "studio" you had in mind. It's true, I wouldn't mind opening a gym but don't have the resources. Apparently, neither do you. But it was never a driving ambition of mine. Just a "would be nice." Not like you who did own a gym but failed and went bankrupt and you lost a lot of money and your life's work. Another of the many reasons you are so angry and bitter.
You may consider you bicep machine the best ever made. You can consider anything you do as the best ever. But it is meaningless if nobody else cares.
Nobody cares, Vincent. That's, again, another reason people KNOW you are such a sad and bitter man, and by default, a lonely one. Nobody likes a sad sack. In the case of Roz, it has grown into contempt.
And yes, I work at a hardware chain part-time. So what? You think that is what I did with my college degree? I never really went or wanted to get into great detail about my life but, as I said, I am in a generous and chatty mood, and want to make it easier for you to continue with your unfinished business. It would be cool if you knew the full extent of the person you are dealing with. But modesty and, well, other stuff, precludes going into full detail. I just want to be little old, hapless Pellius, Philip Gilkey, to you.
My ambition after college was to join the military. Fighting Communism was the big thing in those days and I was brought up with the idea that in this world there is always a constant battle between good and evil and I was going to fight on the side of good. That's how we were raised. And that's quite different from being "nice" which you claimed is how I want to portray myself.
By my junior year, I was recruited by the DoD and they offered to pay for my last two years at UCLA. I was supporting and paying my way through college and struggling tremendously. This was a God send. During those day (The Reagan/Bush years) the defense department was booming. All the major Aerospace and Defense companies were located in one main area, El Segundo, California. Hughes Aircraft, Rockwell, McDonnell Douglas, GM, Raytheon, Northropt... and an all-out recruiting program was underway. Anybody that went to Cal Tech, USC, and UCLA and was a junior with good grades in a technical field, mine was Math/Applied Science, was going to get a call from the government.
As a DoD contractor, I bounced around from company to company which in this case really meant building to building, assignment to assignment, lab to lab as needed. I worked hand in hand with the military and got to travel to various places where America was supporting pro American governments fighting Communist expansion, i.e. the Cold War, where Russia and America fought "proxy wars" in South America, Asia, the Middle East, because they could not fight each other directly as this would risk an all-out nuclear war. So I was essentially in a roundabout way following through with my ambition to join the military and defend our country.
This is where my interest, training, and subsequent collection of firearms began -- a subject you always seemed to have a unique fascination with and periodically asked me about. And, yes, I got to use them. I'd also like to show you what I can do with a blade.
This is one of my IDs when I was with Raytheon. As those in the biz know, the Red Stripe indicates a Secret Clearance and on the back of the card is the various access points I have and the privileges granted. It changes constantly from assignment to assignment and with each new assignment comes a separate background check. In addition to the three labs: Radar, Global Hawk, and the Predator program, I also have off-hour access, a big one, only the important guys get that one (feeling a bit "cheeky" as you folks put it) and Escort Privileges, meaning I can bring in personnel not officially cleared for the area. Only the REAL important people get that one.
But not quite the "Luna" clearance that gh15 bragged about.
I'm glad we had this little insightful discussion into the life of Philip Gilkey that you have taken such a special interest in as you continue with your "unfinished business". I hope I made your task a little easier.
