Titan Transfer and Ramblings
This will be some general information on school and other things rambling through my noggin, be advised I am just going to type as it comes to be so there might not be proper punctuation so if that bothers you then this probably won't be for you. Travel with me
July 29th
Arrived in Shelbyville Tennessee today around 7:30pm flat broke hoping to make a better life for my family, I am staying in a small efficiency apartment, it's not a lot but it hopefully keeps the rain out and it's cheap so will have to make do. Sleep eluded me much of the night, being in a new place away from my wife and kids and pup for the first time isn't easy, and on top of that I keep thinking about my dad, so decide to just watch tv, did manage to sleep from 3am-6am.
July 30th
Managed to get 3 hours of sleep, part of it was excitement for school and a better life for me and the family part of it was being in a new place. I awoke at 6am, ate some dry cereal because I haven't been to the store yet, will do that later this eve. Got ready and drove the 3.2 miles to school arrived at 6:30 for a 7:00 am class. Was always told if you are ON TIME your 30 mins late. Well there was some miscommunication between me and my recruiter because class doesn't start until 7:30 am. Oh well, there are 6 of us in class which is what we had a Millis. I am the only one who arrived with my permit, ( was under the impression we needed this BEFORE coming to school) Today we did new hire paper work, worked on learning pre-trip we split up 3 and 3. My group worked on a truck going over Pre-Trip (Tennessee is different then Kentucky for the CDL Test, because Kentucky requires A LOT MORE in the pre-trip and backing portions.) I got to go first with the instructor and went through all the stuff I remembered from Millis and when I was done he said Excellent except you listed (he named it off) he said we don't need to list all that in Tennessee. While the 3 of us worked on Pre-Trip the other 3 went to the range and started backing. We have one guy from the previous class who will be with us for a week because he didn't pass the CDL Test with his class. Tomorrow we will switch up my group of 3 will go work on backing and the other 3 will work on Pre-Trip.
This will all be review for me because I have already done all this through Millis, however THIS TIME I'm Leaving with a CDL woo hoo. We train on manual transmissions so we do not have restrictions on our CDL, the fleet is 100% Automatic with the exception of the 2 school trucks. Most of the 2015-2016-2017s are getting phased out so there may be a good chance of getting a new truck when I get on my own.
General Ramblings:
This is going to be a challenge bigger then I first imagined. Not the school, class will be a breeze as previously mentioned. Problem and challenge is I am the only one out of the 6 NOT From the area. So while everyone goes home to their family and friends, I come sit in an empty efficiency apartment. Where my mind is free to wonder, which if you know me is a dangerous place for it to be.
My mind frequently drifts back to dad and how much I am now realizing it sucks he is gone. Did we have the perfect relationship? NO! But he and mom did step in and Adopt me when my birth mother decided for what ever reason she didn't want me. Are there a ton of things I wish I could say to him? Sure, but I think what really bugs me is all the things I WANTED to say at his memorial and didn't so I am going to put them here, you have to imagine you where sitting in the church if you would indulge me. Stay with me this is a LONG ONE, but what I need to get off my chest, to help with the grieving I believe
When we go to a Cemetery to visit, (Do people still do that?) When we get to the grave we notice 3 things, First the Name: In this case Larry R Poyser, Next we look to the left and we see the date of birth, in Dad's case April 22 1947 and Finally we see the day of death again July 1 2018, what happens next, we quickly do some math in our heads to find out how old they were. Next time I want you to look at a 4th item... and that is the DASH between the DOB and DOD, because that little line holds the entire story of the person. I would like to tell you a little bit about my father's DASH.
Dad was born April 22 1947 in Elkhart Indiana to Richard and Norma Poyser, he had 3 brothers Tom, Donald, and Randal. He graduated from Concord High School and went on to Bethel College where he met and fell in love and married my mother Sharon, graduated and started working. He taught some at Concord Jr High, and in my life time held a few jobs, Ramada Inn, McDonalds, Pizza Hut. He started his own computer business "Computerware Unlimited" which he operated out of his home for a many years and eventually opened an office in downtown in the Elkhart Truth Building. Sometime in their busy lives of teaching my parents decided they wanted to have kids but God had different plans, and mom and dad ended up adopting Tom and Kathy from Houston Texas. All though these two where great kids (perfect in God's eyes, maybe not always in mom and dads) they felt their life was missing something and through God's AMAZING Grace and infinite wisdom they ended up adopting a little child named Jared, fortunately they didn't like that name and changed it to Kevin.
Was our life perfect? No, BUT did we have an amazing life? YEAH, if you know us, you know we did many years in 4-H with horses. We spent MANY MANY LATE Nights with Mom and Dad and Bob Duell at Goshen High School, as they made sure everyone was enrolled in the proper classes with the proper animals, and then printing all the information so the kids knew what classes to be ready for. Many people remember hearing by dad baritone voice booming over the PA as Show announcer, or out in the arena as ring steward. On more then one occasion someone wouldn't be able to make it to a horse show or the actual fair or a Drill Team Practice, dad and I would hitch up the horse trailer head off to help the 4-Her, I imagine many times to the chagrin of my mom I'm sure, but that's what my parents did always put others before self.
Many of you participated and enjoyed our Hog Roasts, we worked hard, cleaned the barn, got the food, helped our Neighbor Lavon cook the hog, run and get ice and corn on the cob and drinks etc.
My dad wasn't real flashy with his Christianity but showed it in many many ways, a lot like Christ, Dad taught us servitude, we didn't notice it at the time, but now that he is gone, I have had time to reflect, EVERYTHING he did, was in service to others. Just like Christ, baptized others, Feeding the Hungry, healing the sick, eating with the destitute. Dad did this A LOT, Served others, whether he stood in the pulpit to lead worship, leading the choir, leading youth groups, running the concession stands for the soccer fields, saddle club, taking us on AMAZING Vacations, not always using the main roads.
I recall one particular year, dad went out and bought a bunch of gift cards and he and the kids went into downtown Cincinnati and handed the gift cards out to random people, for Christmas and wanted NOTHING in return..Serving others.
A few weeks before dad died, mom had to go get a tooth pulled, she was nervous about it so dad offered to pray with her, for peace, the procedure went well.
Sadly mom and dad spent a better part of my Teenage/Adult life getting me to a church, finally in 2012 my parents sat near the front of church and watched their wayward son accept Christ and be Baptized.
One of the last movies dad took us to see was "I Can Only Imagine" so that song and movie have a new meaning to me.
What an amazing dad we had.... Loving Husband of 50 years Loving Father to us Kids, Loving Grandfather and a Christ Loving Servant, who was always willing to do for others. To take the road less traveled ( in more ways then one) Amazing Vacation Planner, Friend, Confidant, Fisherman,
That is a little bit about my Dad's DASH what an amazing man he was. What will your DASH say about you? Don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone, do something different, as Will Smith once said " On the other side of your biggest fear are all the best things in life" You know the people who died yesterday had plans for today, the people who will die tonight had plans for tomorrow.
Don't be afraid to DO, what are you waiting for? I will do it tomorrow, I will do it next week. Yesterday is the past tomorrow is the future TODAY....Today is a gift that's why it's called the present, we aren't guaranteed tomorrow. Make that call, take that job, send that text, call that guy or girl you secretly have a crush on, introduce your self to a complete stranger. Most importantly obey God's Greatest command LOVE ONE ANOTHER as he First loved us...Life is to short to HATE people, God Loved EVERYONE, Forgive, Forget, LOVE, DO.. and when you come to that fork in the road, where if you go to the right will take you to an interstate...Go Left take the road less traveled go on an adventure Serve others...Put others BEFORE SELF...
July 29th
Arrived in Shelbyville Tennessee today around 7:30pm flat broke hoping to make a better life for my family, I am staying in a small efficiency apartment, it's not a lot but it hopefully keeps the rain out and it's cheap so will have to make do. Sleep eluded me much of the night, being in a new place away from my wife and kids and pup for the first time isn't easy, and on top of that I keep thinking about my dad, so decide to just watch tv, did manage to sleep from 3am-6am.
July 30th
Managed to get 3 hours of sleep, part of it was excitement for school and a better life for me and the family part of it was being in a new place. I awoke at 6am, ate some dry cereal because I haven't been to the store yet, will do that later this eve. Got ready and drove the 3.2 miles to school arrived at 6:30 for a 7:00 am class. Was always told if you are ON TIME your 30 mins late. Well there was some miscommunication between me and my recruiter because class doesn't start until 7:30 am. Oh well, there are 6 of us in class which is what we had a Millis. I am the only one who arrived with my permit, ( was under the impression we needed this BEFORE coming to school) Today we did new hire paper work, worked on learning pre-trip we split up 3 and 3. My group worked on a truck going over Pre-Trip (Tennessee is different then Kentucky for the CDL Test, because Kentucky requires A LOT MORE in the pre-trip and backing portions.) I got to go first with the instructor and went through all the stuff I remembered from Millis and when I was done he said Excellent except you listed (he named it off) he said we don't need to list all that in Tennessee. While the 3 of us worked on Pre-Trip the other 3 went to the range and started backing. We have one guy from the previous class who will be with us for a week because he didn't pass the CDL Test with his class. Tomorrow we will switch up my group of 3 will go work on backing and the other 3 will work on Pre-Trip.
This will all be review for me because I have already done all this through Millis, however THIS TIME I'm Leaving with a CDL woo hoo. We train on manual transmissions so we do not have restrictions on our CDL, the fleet is 100% Automatic with the exception of the 2 school trucks. Most of the 2015-2016-2017s are getting phased out so there may be a good chance of getting a new truck when I get on my own.
General Ramblings:
This is going to be a challenge bigger then I first imagined. Not the school, class will be a breeze as previously mentioned. Problem and challenge is I am the only one out of the 6 NOT From the area. So while everyone goes home to their family and friends, I come sit in an empty efficiency apartment. Where my mind is free to wonder, which if you know me is a dangerous place for it to be.
My mind frequently drifts back to dad and how much I am now realizing it sucks he is gone. Did we have the perfect relationship? NO! But he and mom did step in and Adopt me when my birth mother decided for what ever reason she didn't want me. Are there a ton of things I wish I could say to him? Sure, but I think what really bugs me is all the things I WANTED to say at his memorial and didn't so I am going to put them here, you have to imagine you where sitting in the church if you would indulge me. Stay with me this is a LONG ONE, but what I need to get off my chest, to help with the grieving I believe
When we go to a Cemetery to visit, (Do people still do that?) When we get to the grave we notice 3 things, First the Name: In this case Larry R Poyser, Next we look to the left and we see the date of birth, in Dad's case April 22 1947 and Finally we see the day of death again July 1 2018, what happens next, we quickly do some math in our heads to find out how old they were. Next time I want you to look at a 4th item... and that is the DASH between the DOB and DOD, because that little line holds the entire story of the person. I would like to tell you a little bit about my father's DASH.
Dad was born April 22 1947 in Elkhart Indiana to Richard and Norma Poyser, he had 3 brothers Tom, Donald, and Randal. He graduated from Concord High School and went on to Bethel College where he met and fell in love and married my mother Sharon, graduated and started working. He taught some at Concord Jr High, and in my life time held a few jobs, Ramada Inn, McDonalds, Pizza Hut. He started his own computer business "Computerware Unlimited" which he operated out of his home for a many years and eventually opened an office in downtown in the Elkhart Truth Building. Sometime in their busy lives of teaching my parents decided they wanted to have kids but God had different plans, and mom and dad ended up adopting Tom and Kathy from Houston Texas. All though these two where great kids (perfect in God's eyes, maybe not always in mom and dads) they felt their life was missing something and through God's AMAZING Grace and infinite wisdom they ended up adopting a little child named Jared, fortunately they didn't like that name and changed it to Kevin.
Was our life perfect? No, BUT did we have an amazing life? YEAH, if you know us, you know we did many years in 4-H with horses. We spent MANY MANY LATE Nights with Mom and Dad and Bob Duell at Goshen High School, as they made sure everyone was enrolled in the proper classes with the proper animals, and then printing all the information so the kids knew what classes to be ready for. Many people remember hearing by dad baritone voice booming over the PA as Show announcer, or out in the arena as ring steward. On more then one occasion someone wouldn't be able to make it to a horse show or the actual fair or a Drill Team Practice, dad and I would hitch up the horse trailer head off to help the 4-Her, I imagine many times to the chagrin of my mom I'm sure, but that's what my parents did always put others before self.
Many of you participated and enjoyed our Hog Roasts, we worked hard, cleaned the barn, got the food, helped our Neighbor Lavon cook the hog, run and get ice and corn on the cob and drinks etc.
My dad wasn't real flashy with his Christianity but showed it in many many ways, a lot like Christ, Dad taught us servitude, we didn't notice it at the time, but now that he is gone, I have had time to reflect, EVERYTHING he did, was in service to others. Just like Christ, baptized others, Feeding the Hungry, healing the sick, eating with the destitute. Dad did this A LOT, Served others, whether he stood in the pulpit to lead worship, leading the choir, leading youth groups, running the concession stands for the soccer fields, saddle club, taking us on AMAZING Vacations, not always using the main roads.
I recall one particular year, dad went out and bought a bunch of gift cards and he and the kids went into downtown Cincinnati and handed the gift cards out to random people, for Christmas and wanted NOTHING in return..Serving others.
A few weeks before dad died, mom had to go get a tooth pulled, she was nervous about it so dad offered to pray with her, for peace, the procedure went well.
Sadly mom and dad spent a better part of my Teenage/Adult life getting me to a church, finally in 2012 my parents sat near the front of church and watched their wayward son accept Christ and be Baptized.
One of the last movies dad took us to see was "I Can Only Imagine" so that song and movie have a new meaning to me.
What an amazing dad we had.... Loving Husband of 50 years Loving Father to us Kids, Loving Grandfather and a Christ Loving Servant, who was always willing to do for others. To take the road less traveled ( in more ways then one) Amazing Vacation Planner, Friend, Confidant, Fisherman,
That is a little bit about my Dad's DASH what an amazing man he was. What will your DASH say about you? Don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone, do something different, as Will Smith once said " On the other side of your biggest fear are all the best things in life" You know the people who died yesterday had plans for today, the people who will die tonight had plans for tomorrow.
Don't be afraid to DO, what are you waiting for? I will do it tomorrow, I will do it next week. Yesterday is the past tomorrow is the future TODAY....Today is a gift that's why it's called the present, we aren't guaranteed tomorrow. Make that call, take that job, send that text, call that guy or girl you secretly have a crush on, introduce your self to a complete stranger. Most importantly obey God's Greatest command LOVE ONE ANOTHER as he First loved us...Life is to short to HATE people, God Loved EVERYONE, Forgive, Forget, LOVE, DO.. and when you come to that fork in the road, where if you go to the right will take you to an interstate...Go Left take the road less traveled go on an adventure Serve others...Put others BEFORE SELF...
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