Thad Evans

Profile Updated: March 22, 2024
Residing In: Salinas, CA USA
Spouse/Partner: Yolanda (deceased)
Are you retired? Yes
Children: Claudia, born 1971; Aleks, born 1975. However, we adopted both of them while on the first tour of duty More…in Germany 1973 - 1977.
Military Service: Army  
Occupations:

1971 - 1991: U.S. Army. Retired as Major.
1991 - 2004: Worked in the Business Offices of various school districts, mostly in Monterey County, CA., but my last job was Chief Business Official of the St. Helena Unified School District in Napa County, CA. Wine Country!

Grandchildren (and great grandchildren):

Aarik Colin Evans, born 2016
Skyler Elliott Evan's, born 2018

Where all have you lived since graduating from Harding?

Norman OK; Hicksville, OH (really); Portland, OR; Ft. Benning, GA; Ft. Huachuca, AZ; Ft. Riley, KS; Augsburg, FRG; Camp Casey, Korea; Ft. Bragg, NC; Ft. Sill, OK; Ft. Harrison, IN; Heidelburg, FRG; Frankfurt, FRG; Ft. Ord, CA; St. Helena, CA; Salinas, CA.

Bucket List?

Travel

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Mar 24, 2024 at 7:52 AM

Posted on: Mar 22, 2024 at 10:50 PM

Humor:

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Mar 21, 2024 at 9:43 AM

Posted on: Mar 19, 2024 at 4:48 PM

This is Us???

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Mar 19, 2024 at 8:11 AM

Posted on: Mar 18, 2024 at 7:55 PM

More humor:

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Mar 25, 2024 at 2:51 PM

Posted on: Mar 16, 2024 at 11:04 AM

Another then and now comparison

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Mar 15, 2024 at 7:22 PM

I'm sorry to say this was SO true and probably still is.

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Mar 15, 2024 at 10:42 AM

Posted on: Mar 13, 2024 at 9:39 PM

From Sis:

Subject: An Old Lady's Point of View

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment.
The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

The older lady said that she was right -- our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain:
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.

We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a r azor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the"green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?

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Mar 25, 2024 at 2:53 PM

Posted on: Mar 09, 2024 at 10:03 AM

And, finally, this is us.

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Mar 10, 2024 at 10:49 AM

Posted on: Mar 09, 2024 at 10:01 AM

Recent photos from texas (moon) and salinas, california (street scene)..

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Mar 09, 2024 at 9:41 AM

You might not get this if you weren't in the military.

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Mar 08, 2024 at 7:36 AM

Posted on: Mar 05, 2024 at 10:39 AM

Jokes

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Mar 07, 2024 at 5:55 PM

Posted on: Mar 04, 2024 at 11:29 AM

May have shared these before, but that's what's good about modern maturity - you forget things!

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Mar 07, 2024 at 5:57 PM

Posted on: Feb 28, 2024 at 1:10 AM

Humor

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Mar 03, 2024 at 12:39 PM

Posted on: Feb 24, 2024 at 10:52 AM

From Sis:

Subject: Laws of life

2. Law of Mechanics

When changing your oil, your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you'll have to pee.

2. Law of Gravity

Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible place in the universe.

3. Law of Probability

The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.

4. Law of Random Numbers

If you dial the wrong number, you never get a busy signal; someone always answers.

5. Variation Law

If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will always move faster than the one you are in now.

6. Law of the Bath

When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone will ring.

7. Law of Close Encounters

The probability of meeting someone you know INCREASES dramatically when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

8. Law of the Result

When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, IT WILL!!!

9. Law of Biomechanics

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

10 . Law of the Theater & Hockey Arena

At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle, always arrive last. They are the ones who will leave their seats several times to go for food, beer, or the toilet and who leave early before the end of the performance or the game is over. The folks in the aisle seats come early, never move once, have long gangly legs or big bellies and stay to the bitter end of the performance. The aisle people also are very surly folk.

11. The Coffee Law

As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

12. Murphy's Law of Lockers

If there are only 2 people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

13. Law of Physical Surfaces

The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet or rug.

14. Law of Logical Argument

Anything is possible IF you don't know what you are talking about.

15. Law of Physical Appearance

If the clothes fit, they're ugly.

16. Law of Public Speaking

A CLOSED MOUTH GATHERS NO FEET!

17. Law of Commercial Marketing Strategy

As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it OR the store will stop selling it!

18. Doctors' Law

If you don't feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there, you'll feel better. But don't make an appointment and you'll stay sick.

The Law of Television Entertainment

As soon as you find a television program that you really like, it will be cancelled.

IMPORTANT: If you don't forward this to your friends, your belly button will unscrew and your butt will fall off. Really... It's true. I read it on the Internet.

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Feb 24, 2024 at 9:45 AM

Posted on: Feb 24, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Last from Steve ( for now):
16. When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery?
17. I don't mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited.
18. When I ask for directions, please don't use words like "east."
19. Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That'll freak you right out.
20. Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those people cops.
21. My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb.

Feb
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Feb 23, 2024 at 12:57 PM

More via Steve Cox:

11. When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say "nothing," it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing.
12. I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever.
13. I run like the winded.
14. I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning and don't know whose side I'm on.
15. When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, "Why, what did you hear?"

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Feb 23, 2024 at 3:49 PM

Posted on: Feb 21, 2024 at 4:22 PM

Another from Steve. Sounds like us.

An English professor announced to the class: "There are two words I don't allow in my class. One is gross and the other is cool."

From the back of the room a voice called out, "So, what are the words?”

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Mar 13, 2024 at 5:48 PM

Posted on: Feb 20, 2024 at 11:32 AM

Remember when...

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Feb 23, 2024 at 3:49 PM

Posted on: Feb 20, 2024 at 10:27 AM

More from Steve Cox:
6. When I say, "The other day," I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago.
7. I remember being able to get up without making sound effects.
8. I had my patience tested. I'm negative.
9. Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit any of your containers.
10. If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?"

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Feb 21, 2024 at 9:33 AM

Posted on: Feb 18, 2024 at 11:38 AM

Words of wisdom via Steve Cox:

1. When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison.
2. To me, "drink responsibly" means don't spill it.
3. Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight.
4. It's the start of a brand new day, and I'm off like a herd of turtles.
5. The older I get, the earlier it gets late.

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Feb 18, 2024 at 10:48 AM

Woof:

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