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Gregory Knox

Hey guys,

Sure is nice to read all of your bios, it's great to hear how well you have done. I must have taken that 60's mantra, "Tune in, Turn on and Drop out!" a bit too seriously and never really dropped back in.

I pretty much blew off the 70's, hacking a cab and smoking the nights away in Seattle. It was a kick, cruising the midnight hours, wild eyed, self-medicated, never knowing just what adventure the next fare or the monkey on my back would bring. Must be some good stories there, buried in the foggy mists, some I can even remember. I quit drinking in '78. Developed an allergy to brewers yeast. Bummer! Well, all good things must come to an end. In 1979, the City Council, peaved at having to wait for a cab at rush hour, deregulated the cab industry, sending it into the sewer. I was so distressed, I rented a pair of roller skates on a spring equinox which coincided with a full moon and broke my driving leg skating around Green Lake!

Other highlights of the 70's:

Took a break from hauling people around and hauled bags of blood instead when I worked for the Puget Sound Blood Center.

Got involved in an experimental life style when I joined a bunch of radical leftists ( They ranged from admitted anarchists to devout Marxists) My best friend there, of course, was the FBI plant. Saw the error of my ways, however, when I was chased out by a coven of radical, stone throwing lesbians. Oh well.

Took an extended road trip cross country to Boston, Mass. the summer that Elvis died. But, with condolences to all of you who live back east, I turned around and headed right back to the great Pacific Northwest .

Well, along came the '80s , left Seattle, spent a summer in Yakima putting a new foundation under my grandmother's house. Eighty years of vibration from the nearby hiway had settled the old field stone pilings down till the frame was sitting in the dirt...Found myself back in Pullman, enrolled at WSU. I studied Theater and Foreign Languages, graduated summa cum laude in '85. Yes Robin, I too, did a bit of Musical Theater; Mayor Shinn in "Musicman", Jigger Cragen in "Carousel", the Knight who beheaded the man who was beating his naked wife in " Camelot"... just to name a few. Met Tara and got married, Daughter Katherine born in '88. Tara got her Masters in '90, we left Pullman behind and moved up to the Spokane area where Tara went to work for WWP now Avista.

The 90's ushered in a decade spent in the rural areas of the Spokane Valley. Became the stay-at-home parent to raise Kate and then son Christopher born in '95. Got into organic gardening and ultimately moved onto a 13 acre alfalfa farm in Otis Orchards. Started buying broke down vehicles and learned to get 'em up and running. Still only drive old cars.
Tara bought a proud-cut Arabian gelding and we've had horses ever since.

Notable changes...quit smoking cigarettes Dec.5, 1995!
Got certified as a mental case, rapid cycling Bi-Polar Disorder.... 'splains a lot!

The air quality and population congestion in the Valley led us to consider other areas and we closed out the 90's by preparing to move elsewhere.

We were very fortunate to survive all the technical failures and social upheavals of Y2K and with a short stay near Airway Frights moved onto a 5 acre spread outside of Cheney in 2001. A good move for the new millennium.
Kate really liked the Cheney School District and went on to EWU where she will be graduating from their Film School this June. Christopher has bloomed with a mastery of the trumpet and is enjoying his time as Cheney High. Chris and I re-built an old '80 Toyota 4x4 Pickup and souped up an old '84 Caprice Classic. Tara just became a 'Trail Blazer' at Avista, (20 years). I nearly died in 2003 with Pneumococal Pneumonia and blood clots in my lungs. Slowed me down considerably. But, with lungs so bad, I had to quit the self-medicating. I shook off the liberal haze of an addled mind just in time to quail at the sight of Obama and Hillary leading a charge of Socialists and Commies on the American dream! Political re-birth! FairTax, go for it. But it's only for the Free and the Brave!

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