Sorry for replying to the posts and taking up space, but I couldn't help myself since I asked the questions. I love reading everyones individual stories and how they became who they are, really lends more to their voice when I read their posts. I tend to really like interacting with all types. With that, i'll give a little background on myself...
Name is Michael, I grew up in Livingston County which is near Paducah which was the idea behind my screen name of course. I actually chose the alternate spelling to simplify my screen name from paducahcat because it just didn't look right, and chief paduke was the founder of the city so I went with it. I'm 39 years old and am married with 3 children ages 14, 13, and 9. The eldest as you may recall is a young man we just recently adopted from china. Here is the blog link that takes you through the process
http://hereiammyson.blogspot.com/, and my entries are pretty much only while I was in china, but its a good read and pretty interesting if you want to understand the process and what it takes you through. Its been a journey for sure and he is doing well getting adjusted. My other son age 13 is the sweetest kid ever and seems to be a natural with singing and playing piano, and the youngest is my 9 year old daughter who is one heck of an athlete.
I really have a boring story in that I grew up with a great childhood with tons of friends spending their summers together playing ball and riding bikes. Great parents who were supportive but let us become who we wanted to be. I LOVED playing ball and pretty much spent my childhood doing nothing but this, usually in my own yard or driveway. Played baseball for my hs team and we had a good group that took our little county to the state by defeating the likes of the larger schools such as Henderson, Christian Co, etc. Ended up losing to Owensboro Apollo when they had brad Wilkerson who went on to hit for the cycle in the majors. I played shortstop for us usually but moved around the infield depending on our pitchers. Never hit a home run at any level until our senior year and my first one was a game winner. Had a full scholarship to a small school but decided I didn't want to leave my friends and just wanted to focus on school. I was about the same level player in basketball, had a few fine moments such as hitting a 3 pointer to win a game. 6'1" white dudes from rural counties on ho-hum teams don't get a lot of scholarship offers but I was good enough to play some small college ball and probably would have jumped at the chance because I just loved basketball and still do. Never dunked in a hs game but could do it in warmups and did it several times in tournaments I played in during college, which was like a dream come true. So dreamy I hung on the rim a bit too long and they T'd me up lol. Ive had my stints with golfing as well but haven't done much in the last several years. My exciting accomplishment with golf happened about 7 years ago when I was playing a lot and had my handicap down to about 4, I entered our club championship even though I never play in tourneys, and I went out the first day and shot a 69 which was about 6 strokes better than I had ever done. I was leading the tourney out of the first flight, went out day two trying to not embarrass myself and was 3 under through the first 9 holes before succumbing to the pressure and having a catastrophic downfall to finish with a 75 for the day which was good enough to tie me with the guy that won it out of the champ flight. I was good with that! As for other sports I've always deer hunted with my dad which has offered more cherished memories than it actually has trophy deer.
Like everyone else, I had to go pro in something else so I chose being a civil engineer. worked for a local firm for 3 years then found a sales engineer gig where I sell construction products for a company out of ohio that makes pipe, bridges, etc. I really like seeing people and this gave me about 500 more people to see vs sitting in an office each day. Outside of work these days I coach my daughters basketball and softball teams and try to spend the rest of my time with the other kids. We vacation a lot because you cant take it with you and the memories last forever. I also spend entirely too much time on this board but I figure its a harmless use of my free time and I really enjoy talking UK basketball. That's about it for me, i'm a pretty funny guy that loves people, sports, and good times.
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