Many posters have returned to add this or that to their "resumes" in life so instead, I'll just put it all in one post. Not that anyone is going to be interested, but this is my synopsis and I'm sticking to it.
I've been alive in 8 different decades but not 70 yet. Can you figure my age from this? Born in Denver, but spent many years in Seattle area before moving to Las Vegas (never took to any place east of the Rockies). I'm a Scorpio thus my avatar picture.
From just my mom, my younger sister and me, to a marriage with 3 older step-brothers and 3 step-sisters. Life altering and not in a good way for all 3 of us. Learned at a very early age what hate, greed, selfishness were. Learned smoking then also.
First "car" was a '59 Chev panel truck but I've owned a '69 Mustang, '67 Camaro, '73 240-Z, several VW's, several Subaru's, A '95 Chev Blazer and a Toyota Rav4. Only motorcycle was a Yamaha Virago 650.
Married once for only 2 years. No children. Regrets start with this. Never looked for or stayed put long enough to try again. And those that came along weren't half the woman I had. Drugs? Booze? I did enjoy LSD, cocaine, speed and a good high. Aside from HS weekend parties, none of them stayed with me though.
One of (if not the) best times of my life was after HS. My BF and I drove from Seattle to San Diego on the coast highway. Had sun-bleached blond hair past my elbows and as it was 1968, we were considered hippies and enjoyed life with same. The fun ended when he got his draft notice so we joined the Army. He saw action in Korea and traveled much of Europe, I was a Air Traffic Controller stuck in Alabama.
Had many jobs: lawn mower, gas station attendant, d-t-d vacuum cleaner salesman, silk-screener for K-2, Bering Sea fishing, forklift driver, tavern owner, Govt. sub-contract worker, poker dealer and others. Almost a AA in Geological Oceanography but needed work more then a education at the time. Never settled with anything long enough to retire from (I bore easily if not mentally challenged), so I'm just retired.
Sciatica has been with me since 1999. Then came a muscle-wasting bout and COPD. The back pain forced me off the fairways in early 2012 as well as out of work. Now I spend 95% of my time watching TV, feeding my birds and playing this sim. Very quiet existence...alone but not lonely. All past BF's have passed so attachments to individuals is always at a distance. Not by conscious choice, just is. I'd rather approach a wild carnivore at night then a unknown human. One kills for survival and out of instinct. The other does so as a conscious choice.
I'm open-minded to ghosts, reincarnation, aliens, bigfoot. Too much valid evidence to negate totally. As Arthur C. Clark said about aliens..."There are two forms of thought here. Either we are alone in the universe, or we aren't. Both are terrifying".
I prefer science over any religion. My sister is very religious but she calls it "faith". I have faith. Faith that we've effectively destroyed our planet beyond saving, that we'll never extend human existence beyond our "blue ball" making life for most uglier and harder then imaginable in the next 20+ years (or sooner), that if not for the toll of disease and war, we'd be at least twice the population we're at now. Faith in a very dire future for the human race but pity more the animal kingdom. I know...you're saying "WOW, what a fatalist!" and you'd be right. Just glad I'll not be around to live it. Death, or how I go is not a fear for me. Living in my vision of the future is. One's own "Truth" is the essence of this thread, not whether we're right or wrong about something.
Golf has been part of my life since 1964 when I was on the jr. high and high school teams. From my various travels, I've played courses from British Columbia to So. Cal, from Big Sur and San Francisco to Denver. From 1993 to 2012, I imagine I played a average of 40+ times per year...almost once a week for near 20 years. I was a scratch in 2004.
Now I'm going to climb on my soapbox for my parting comments.
Many of the previous posters "know" me through our play of our favorite squirrel's Interspecies tourneys. Just made the big L a few days ago. And to be fair, my life w/o WGT would be considerably more empty. It fulfills a need in me I can't really describe...missing rl golf?, nothing else to do?...both but other intangibles. And I do love it for that. But...I've been "glum" about WGT in many ways as of late and realize that sooner or later, I'll also make TL. Then what? More tiers? That won't solve anything. Perfection in this sim is 99% possible. I don't want perfection! Get to a 50 HC then what? Continue playing just to lower that? Nope. Stagnation. Eventually, with no constant and continual challenge, it's the only logical conclusion. Only a shot-shape sim will remedy that. The tech is out there but our host (as far as we've been told) doesn't seem to have a desire or interest in a strategy for surviving beyond 1 or 2 years from now, let alone 5. Go ahead, keep this one as is. But develop a ss sim before someone else does and puts you out of business! jmo
I'm David and I'm done. The soapbox is there for anyone else to use.