Esoteric - That is me. By nature. My Father was a rather poor Kansas farm boy who got into Oklahoma State University on a scholarship, worked two jobs there and slept in his VW bus for a while, earned degrees in engineering and animal husbandry. While there, he met my Mother who was from a prominent Tulsa family. He was successful at once and has grown to a position of wealth. He is 66, still works 12 hour days because he knows of nothing else. He became widowed last December. I have three older brothers and an older sister. My Father helped us all. Upon each of us reaching 18 years of age, his gift was $500,000 along with his serious advice to manage it well because he would never give another penny. Being the baby of the family, I was able to barter for a bit more because of inflation. He is kind, honest, fair and generous, and his justice the most inflexible I have ever known. We lived very nice but not anything lavish or showy...somewhat frugal in truth. I started playing golf at age 7 tagging along with my 3 older brothers...they hated it, I loved it, and it made me tough. By 11, because of their influence, I was smoking cigars while playing...and gambling ;-} Those were wonderful days and it helped to belong to a private CC, playing everyday. I was a fatty 'til around age 14 then slowly became shapely.
I have a law degree from USC but have no intention of taking the bar exam...no interest, in fact I don't even know where my diploma is; it was obtained to satisfy the wishes of my parents. I have also done some special study in Charlottesville at the U of V regarding Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello, and in Paris tracing his steps there.
I will be 27 on January 1st and my sister Melissa will be 39 on the same day...she was a bicentennial baby. I am single, I like men by nature but as yet, romance has yet to bloom. My desires and attractions in that arena are as yet un-equal to anything I see in the arena. Honesty, faith, kindness, diligence, integrity, humor, and being a true gentleman are must have basic requirements. Too much to ask ? No; again, requirements. Oh, I am not a prude. As most people do or have done, so have I. In younger times I've smoked weed, been sock-eyed drunk, tried coke, meth, mushrooms, X, been in the sack few times out of curiousity, but otherwise....I'm a boring bookwormish loner. Incidently, the picture of me was taken on my 21st birthday. I am a blonde but I had just dyed my hair dark. In the red solo cup is 151 rum, diet Pepsi & lime. It was taken at a party for my Sis & me attended by about 100 guests. It was the only singular photo taken of me at the strike of midnight 1-1-09. Happy New Year ! Then.
I turned 18 in '06 and immediately invested heavy in gold bullion, along with Apple & Google. A short time later I went with Facebook and have added others. I rely upon my own instincts; never the advice of stockjobbers or anyone of that ilk. I have done quite well. I follow simple basic accounting formula..assets-liabilites=capital.
My interests are history: because it is the only indicater of the true, natural, repeating behavior of the human being. It is impossible to predict where things might go without knowing where things have been.
I also enjoy my time with astronomy. I have much gear to enjoy it with. I have a 1997 Celestron 9.25 Ultima Schmidt-Cassegrain that is perfect for me. I prefer to set up at Joshua Tree because it is super dark, super dry and super comfortable in the middle of the night.
And I play alot of golf; about 3 or 4 times per week....and I play here every day ! ;-}
And so, I'm tired of talking about me. All I must do now is see if I have the sand to push the post button.....Lily