Your other life.

Wow, there's so many people here with interesting lives. Hell, I'm a divorced father of 1 daughter, computer tech for NCR as a living. With just that I never find myself having time for anything really "exciting". I live in NW Arkansas, which is so not a pool community. We have a couple of bar pool halls, but no actual pool rooms. So pool night is bar night and happens maybe twice a month. Like others, its my escape from real life. On the plus side, last time I went I played just about everyone in the bar and never lost the table.

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Where did you meet Johnny, Eric.


Out front of the Tattoo Shop, he is friends with the same tattoo Artist. Mark Mahoney-Shamrock Social Club on Sunset Strip, if you go to Youtube there are a few videos of Mark and the Shop(Shamrock Social Club) and clips of some of the Celebs he has tattooed(which is a mile long). In the tattoo world Mark is huge, triple nice guy and been a close friend since 94. We mite open a shop together in NYC, working out details after X-mas. I drop by there 2,3,4 nites a week when i'm in LA, there is a barbox so i ht the balls a little and mite eat or just meet new people. A couple weeeks ago I met the lady who does the contact lenses for the show "The Walking Dead" she was very interesting.

You meet people from all walks of life in the tattoo shop. Marks famous saying is: "Where the elite and the underworld meet", there is lots of truth to that, there will be billionaire trust fund kids in there with old hollywood hipsters who dont have bus fare, unlike pool nobody is counting the other persons $$$, its about art. Not competitive in any way shape of form, some people just out of the joint, some in rehab, squares dabbling on the otherside. a very unique clique of people.
 
Stray Cats, plays drums........:eek:

I know that guy too actually from the same tattoo shop, slim jim. Who I never heard of either. I'm so lame, i'm either reading about biz, doing biz, talking biz or pool I have no clue about celebs, I met Johnny Depp one night I didnt know it was him until after he left, I could go to the Oscars and might not be able to name 10 people, i might regoznize some but I 'm just not into movies, sport, main stream media. I know pool and business, real estate, i recognize buildings(around LA or Vegas) in movies better than people-gods honest truth.

That just put me in a great mood, thanks Fatboy, i needed that brother, i cant stop laughing, man i love AZ BILLIARDS!
 
+1 they were great lifts, i liked the squat the best(looked like he could have moved lots more Kgs) that was to easy to be his heaviest lift. Great form, like pool there are fundamentals in power lifting, i just was never strong enough to compete at any level. however i still love the sport.

It is a great sport but you can only do it for so long, tough on the joints. I've fractured 2 vertebrae and suffered from a bulged disc before I turned 21. Now it's just all pool :cool:
 
It is a great sport but you can only do it for so long, tough on the joints. I've fractured 2 vertebrae and suffered from a bulged disc before I turned 21. Now it's just all pool :cool:

wow that brutal, you have a ton of heart. anyone who gets hurt power lifting has heart in my book. its not a sport for the timid. I was into BBing and had my fair share of gym injury's but they were nothing like you had. Best of luck with pool, you might get a brain injury playing pool(i had one last nite) but you wont hurt much else.
 
That just put me in a great mood, thanks Fatboy, i needed that brother, i cant stop laughing, man i love AZ BILLIARDS!


I love AZ as well when its like this, talking pool, a little trash-with no knocks or insults. I have some great friendss here and When AZB is like it has been the past few hours its great!!!! things have beeen good here since M-cup I noticed. We have piles of great people, owners, mods, posters and even Jay Helfert!!!:thumbup: i hope it stays like this, its easy to be here, i dont like the flame wars.
 
wow that brutal, you have a ton of heart. anyone who gets hurt power lifting has heart in my book. its not a sport for the timid. I was into BBing and had my fair share of gym injury's but they were nothing like you had. Best of luck with pool, you might get a brain injury playing pool(i had one last nite) but you wont hurt much else.

Haha for sure Eric. I'll be in Vegas in the summer, hope to see ya around.
 
Had no idea there were so many interesting people on here, guess I'd never really thought about what everyone was like outside of pool! I'm a single mom of a 20 year old college student. Was vice president of a sports memorabilia company which is now bankrupt, was there from the time it started for about 11 years. Currently trying to get back in school to finish my history degree which was sidetracked by the company taking off so quickly & unexpectedly. I started banging around balls as a small child at my aunt & uncle's bar, I can remember standing on a crate to reach the table & I've been playing ever since!
 
Graduated from undergrad in 2001 with my BS in computer information systems. Worked for all of a few months before realizing computers were far more of a hobby than what I'd like to consider my life's work. I'm the furthest thing from a hippie, but I do believe that we were all put here with the intent of making the would a better place. Tend the garden, so to speak.

I worked as a systems administrator for a year before going back to school to get my prerequisites for medical school. 10 years (and a mountain of debt) later and I'm finished with med school and residency and a family doc at a small town in rural NW Georgia. I love what i do, make a decent living and never worry about being 'downsized.' This career had provided me with the highest highs, lowest lows, it challenges my mind, body and spirit on a daily basis... And it's never, ever boring.

Last January I did a mission trip to Ouanaminthe, Haiti and experienced what true poverty is like. My family is from Jamaica and I thought I'd seen 'poor' before but it wasn't even close. those people battle every day just to survive.

I joke with my girlfriend and tell her that pool is my therapist. Ive played casually since i was a kid. As has been said a few times already, when I walk in to a poolroom, I'm just a pool player.
 
Interesting thread, cool.

Well my "Other Life" has generally been Music and Golf.

In the late 80's early 90's though , I raced sport bikes for a while.

Music has been on going since I was young. Currently having recently released our second CD playing guitar in this band....

http://www.reverbnation.com/myndsight

And I play alot of competitive golf , mini tour stuff mostly.
 

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I beleave I should have started writting a book along time ago . I graduated in '62 , worked as a machanic in a Ford dealersip , till '65 then went to Boeing , worked as a modle maker , in 67 started driving truck , bought my 1st truck in '70 . I also worked on the trucking company owners race cars on and off till '78 , from the small track around home to Indianapolis , he had 5 cars I kept going for him . '68 Camero we won N.Pacific SCCA Championship in '70 and '71 , then sold the car . The Indy , we consintratd on the small 1 mile track and the road courses . Trenton, N.j . Dover , Del . pheonix , Seattle , Milwaukee , and other smaller tracks . Driving truck in the late '60s and early '70s was a lot of fum , picked up a lot of Hippys . I palyed a lot of pool up and down the west coast , our L.A terminal was on Lancersum Blvd. in N Hollywood . In 78 in went into the office as a dispatcher till 98 where I was up to Operations manager , I quite and bought my own truck again , hauling cars up and down the west coast , A lot of cars out of the Las Vegas auction , I was in Vagas every Friday night for 18 months . In the early 90s I started building Cobra kit cars for other people , That was fun . I also started selling cues , I had 6 boxes on the wall at different Pubs . Hauled cars till July of 2011 when I retired to building J/ps and cues . I had the shop set up and was building when at home from driveing truck . I'll add some pictures of some of the cars and trucks .

This is the Indy car when New .

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Our Camero in the lead in Canada .

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Sportman Stock car at the Permitex 200, Riverside Ca.

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Spent some time working for Warren Flickenger , out of Colo. Formula 5000

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Our 74 Pontiac we took to the Ontario 500 , in Cal

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Our Nova , NASCAR Sportsman

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Camero I built at home for SCCA

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This the last truck I sold July 2011

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Interesting thread, cool.

Well my "Other Life" has generally been Music and Golf.

In the late 80's early 90's though , I raced sport bikes for a while.

Music has been on going since I was young. Currently having recently released our second CD playing guitar in this band....

http://www.reverbnation.com/myndsight

And I play alot of competitive golf , mini tour stuff mostly.
checked out your band! Pretty interesting stuff you play!:thumbup2:
 
60s had a mess of part time jobs

70s out of the army in 72 mostly played pool full time. with a couple exceptions, late 72 built mainframes for ibm in boulder for a couple months.
74 managed a body shop for a few months. (earl schieb, i'll paint any car any one color for 19.95)
76 assisted distribution of a movie for a production company for a couple months.
78 worked custom cars show managing the celebrity talent around the country and cananda for a couple yrs.
80s around 81 or so was a welder for about a year then did some gunsmithing for a while.
84 worked with a production company out of movie tech studios assisting in the raising of capitol for films for a couple of years.
then back to playing a little.
90s i was district manager for electrolux for a year.
91 started making cues. (hope to finish one any day now)
95 worked 3rd shift in poolroom for about 12yrs.
2000s did a little pool and billiards streaming for a couple yrs.
now full time caregiver to my elderly folks.

kinda wondered what this might look like if i listed my life by the highlights. didn't seem like much at the time. sorta still doesn't.

M.C.
 
Graduated from undergrad in 2001 with my BS in computer information systems. Worked for all of a few months before realizing computers were far more of a hobby than what I'd like to consider my life's work. I'm the furthest thing from a hippie, but I do believe that we were all put here with the intent of making the would a better place. Tend the garden, so to speak.

I worked as a systems administrator for a year before going back to school to get my prerequisites for medical school. 10 years (and a mountain of debt) later and I'm finished with med school and residency and a family doc at a small town in rural NW Georgia. I love what i do, make a decent living and never worry about being 'downsized.' This career had provided me with the highest highs, lowest lows, it challenges my mind, body and spirit on a daily basis... And it's never, ever boring.

Last January I did a mission trip to Ouanaminthe, Haiti and experienced what true poverty is like. My family is from Jamaica and I thought I'd seen 'poor' before but it wasn't even close. those people battle every day just to survive.

I joke with my girlfriend and tell her that pool is my therapist. Ive played casually since i was a kid. As has been said a few times already, when I walk in to a poolroom, I'm just a pool player.



I've seen the poverty in the islands myself...and helped out.

I was also an IT executive for several years. Great hobby, lousy career if you want to feel fulfilled IMHO.

You can always play with Linux clusters in your spare time. :grin-square:

Sounds like you are doing it right. Well done doc, well done. :thumbup:


I knew we had some other MDs around here. :)




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60s had a mess of part time jobs

70s out of the army in 72 mostly played pool full time. with a couple exceptions, late 72 built mainframes for ibm in boulder for a couple months.
74 managed a body shop for a few months. (earl schieb, i'll paint any car any one color for 19.95)
76 assisted distribution of a movie for a production company for a couple months.
78 worked custom cars show managing the celebrity talent around the country and cananda for a couple yrs.
80s around 81 or so was a welder for about a year then did some gunsmithing for a while.
84 worked with a production company out of movie tech studios assisting in the raising of capitol for films for a couple of years.
then back to playing a little.
90s i was district manager for electrolux for a year.
91 started making cues. (hope to finish one any day now)
95 worked 3rd shift in poolroom for about 12yrs.
2000s did a little pool and billiards streaming for a couple yrs.
now full time caregiver to my elderly folks.

kinda wondered what this might look like if i listed my life by the highlights. didn't seem like much at the time. sorta still doesn't.

M.C.



Looks like plenty to me. :thumbup:



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Well, so far you've covered just about every thread with your Snooker Rocks.

You're a great contributor, albeit considerably annoying.
 
So cool all the things you all have been involved in. Lotta racing. Tell you what I got up to about 140mph once in a big Mercedes on the autobahn and the car felt like it was floating and I was scared to death. I held on for maybe 2-3 minutes before I had to ease off.

I am really impressed with anyone who was into racing, that's just crazy :-)

And a real life Moonie!! How cool is that?

Freddie, dude can you build me a couple robots for my sweatshop? The staff wants AC so it's time to automate.....
 
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