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#449742 - 08/26/08 11:11 AM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: Sol]
Dogfish Offline
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Registered: 05/03/01
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Loc: McCleary, WA
Sorry about your brother Dan.
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#449743 - 08/26/08 11:11 AM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: Dan S.]
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Registered: 10/14/99
Posts: 315
Loc: Grants Pass,OR
Dan, We are so sorry to hear about your loss. cry
For any who are interested here is a link to Jon's obit
http://www.dailycamera.com/obits/2008/aug/13/jon-sandberg/
Please give Sue and your mom our best and even Bill too. I think you got the whole "be happy now thing" right. What else is there after all?
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#449749 - 08/26/08 11:33 AM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: grumpyr]
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Registered: 08/18/02
Posts: 2607
Loc: seattle
Very sorry about your loss Dan. I do like your take on life and how to live it.
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#449752 - 08/26/08 11:44 AM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: Dan S.]
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Registered: 02/14/06
Posts: 563
Loc: Elma
Originally Posted By: Dan S.
I have a little story.


So don't get caught up in thinking the scholarships, the houses, the cars, the boats, the motorcycles or anything else you can possess is all that important. Your happiness and the happiness of those around you is a far greater measure of who you are than what you own. And here's another thing.......you're not going to die wishing you'd have spent more time at the office, or with your nose in a calculus book. One needs to find a balance.

Find your balance, and let everyone else worry about theirs. Ted Bundy graduated from UW Law School and Sam Walton didn't have a college degree. So go figure.


So sorry to hear about your bro.

I agree whole heartedly about your theory on life. I am remodeling a house and selling my current house, spending all my weekends as a slave to those things, and it is fun in some ways. But every now and then I think what's the point? I am not spending enough time with my kids, so I just drop what I am doing and go do something with them. I actually caught a fish last week, and I was like, "Man, I really miss that."

You'll never look at your photo album and say, "Wow look at how good my yard looked, I must have just weedeated it."

Obsession with stuff will kill you.
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#449754 - 08/26/08 11:56 AM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: Rocket Red]
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Loc: Margaritaville
Sorry to hear about your family tragedy, Dan.
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#449758 - 08/26/08 12:09 PM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: parker]
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Registered: 10/13/00
Posts: 4121
Loc: everett
Sorry to hear about your Bro Dan. Wasting a day with you is not really a day wasted. I need to think about what I just wrote.
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#449760 - 08/26/08 12:27 PM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: Dan S.]
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Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 989
Loc: Olalla, WA
Condolences Dan, and awesome job on bringin a reality-check to the daily grind......it is too easy to forget what's important while you're on this rock.
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#449776 - 08/26/08 02:19 PM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: NOFISH]
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Registered: 11/26/06
Posts: 2306
Loc: Olympia
Dan sure just pissed out the campfire on this thread.
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#449785 - 08/26/08 03:00 PM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: Irie]
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Registered: 03/07/00
Posts: 1966
Loc: Lynnwood, WA
You and your family have my sincere condolences as well Dan... I am very sorry for your loss.
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#449894 - 08/27/08 10:23 AM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: 4Salt]
Dan S. Online   content
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Registered: 03/07/99
Posts: 5402
Loc: SE Olympia, WA
I wasn't meaning to rain on everyone's parade, just trying to make some sense out of what we're all doing here.

Thanks for everyone's condolences in this difficult time. My family appreciates all your kind words.
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Got myself a sailin' boat, but I can't afford the gasoline."

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#449991 - 08/27/08 09:14 PM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: Dan S.]
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Registered: 09/22/07
Posts: 903
You didn't rain on the parade but rather gave good advice. It's hard not to get wrapped up in the daily BS & remember what is important in life, those who love us & those we love. I am so sorry for your loss, can't even imagine how awful it would be to lose a brother so young.

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#449993 - 08/27/08 09:19 PM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: Dan S.]
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Registered: 05/03/01
Posts: 3803
Loc: McCleary, WA
On the upside Dan, your brother would not have excelled at what he did if he did not love it. Some people get a passion for knowledge, and he obviously had that. He also went out the way many of us would like to, doing something that we enjoy. You know what I mean.
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#450005 - 08/27/08 09:34 PM Re: Age of entitlement ??? [Re: Dogfish]
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Thanks Andy.

I know exactly what you mean.
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"Feelin' like a paper cup, floating down a storm drain.
Got myself a sailin' boat, but I can't afford the gasoline."

Bon Scott, Down Payment Blues

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