ROCK
NAME ROCK
HEIGHT Above ground
(And I hope to keep it that way)
WEIGHT 170 or so (working on the "or so")
AGE Born In '54. (You do the math)
EYES Two (but bummer, man, I need glasses for reading AND star gazing)
HAIR Yes  (more growing out of my ears then on top of my head ) (Thanks for sharing that bit of info ROCK)
PLACE OF RESIDENCE Renton WA.  Home of Boeing (big fat hairy deal)
LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE Heart Attack  (and subsequent scares)
WIFE She has the dubious honor of that title, but I love her
KIDS Two, hers, girls. Married, children, all girls too.  (Not My Fault)
GRAND KIDS Three grand daughters.  (What
a kick!! I'm Grandpa Bucko!!)
SCHOOL Some University, but I quit on of account of I couldn't hack it.
JOB Self employed and part of the reason I quit school.
LIFE PHILOSOPHY If you are motivated enough, you can probably do it.
HOT WHEELS PHILOSOPHY Buy everything you like if you can, and get extras for friends
BUYING  STRATEGY Study the stocking habits of your local stores.
FAVORITE PUNCTUATION ( )
COLLECTING HOT WHEELS SINCE December 1, 1996 (yes, I'm kind of a Rookie too).
NUMBER OF HOT WHEELS 1000+  (and I'm ashamed, I mean, spending that much on Toys?)
FAVORITE HOT WHEEL 66', Mustang Convertible, Dark Green, Goodyear rubber, Baby Moons,
Crystal head lights and front turn signals, raised rear end,  and a License Plate that says "ROCK ON"  (Thank You Mr. Maranta Sir)
FAVORITE DIE CAST MB Inaugural collection Mustang Cobra Jet (the painted one).
HILIGHTS All 96 TH's, 9 Radio Flyers (8 are my wife's), 2 VW Busses (I had three but traded one for a Caddy TH).
OTHER COLLECTIONS Hats, Casino $1 tokens, Sci-Fi paperbacks, videos, sports equipment.
FAVORITE MUSIC Both Kinds, ROCK and Roll
FAVORITE SONGS ROCK around the Clock, Crocodile ROCK, Two outta three ain't bad
FAVORITE FEDERAL PRISON Alcatraz, the ROCK
FAVORITE INSURANCE COMPANY Prudential, the ROCK.
FAVORITE DRINK Rolling ROCK Ale (Actually it's Diet Barq's Root Beer).
FAVORITE COMIC Chris ROCK.
FAVORITE PRO BEACH VOLLEY BALL STAR Angela ROCK.
FAVORITE CHURCH SONG ROCK of ages, or, On Christ the solid ROCK I stand.
FAVORITE BLACK AND WHITE MOVIE Bad Day at Black Rock (actually it's
Citizen Kane).
FAVORITE CULT MOVIE ROCKy Horror Picture Show.
FAVORITE MOVIE PERIOD Field of Dreams.  (Hey Dad, you wanna have a catch?) (tears)
FAVORITE VACATION SPOT Still Las Vegas, I always have a great time there.
GOAL IN NEXT FIVE YEARS Golf at Pebble Beach. (if you have to ask why, you just don't get it)
TO MY FAVORITE EDITOR Trish, 
Thanks for the place to write. Birds gotta fly, dogs gotta bark cats gotta scratch, and I, I guess, gotta write.   Love,  ROCK
WHY I COLLECT HOT WHEELS/DIE CAST

I collect Hot Wheels because there are no blue trees.  You see, even though blue isn't my favorite color, I noticed it wasn't available in my previous hobby, tree collecting.  Now some of you would say "what about
the blue spruce?"  And you would be right to a certain
degree, but its a pale blue a sky blue, bordering on teal.  Why, if it had been named in this age of multiple hues, it would probably be called a Cerulean Spruce, not blue at all.  No, no, living in the great Pacific Northwest, where blue sky is an oddity, and the water is blue only from
the rainbow effects of the passing oil slicks, I missed blue.  Now green, green is everywhere.  Green leaves in the spring, green needles on the evergreens, even green on the bamboo, (yes, we have a little bamboo forest in our back yard, seriously) (you can't see the forest for the
bamboo?) Anyway, green, green, green, green, green.  Enough to turn your stomach.  And in the fall, Yellow, orange, red, and all shades in between, and all needing to be raked up off the stinking green lawn. This doesn't even touch on the flowering trees, Whites, pinks purples,
reds and more yellows.  Every color of the rainbow EXCEPT Blue!!  So, oddly enough, I was feeling blue about the lack of blue when I walked into a K-Mart one day, looking for the Blue vests I guess. (they wear red
vests at our K-Mart now, how about at yours?)  When I
stumbled on a display of Hot Wheels.  And there, right in front, was a blue car!! And behind it, another blue car, different shade but unmistakably blue!!  I was in Heaven,  My Blue Heaven you might say.( I'll be happy
in my, blue, hea-van)  I bought every blue car they had.  Soon, I was buying Hot Wheels by the case full, keeping all the blue cars and trading away the rest.  I very quickly forgot all about my trees, but this being rainy Seattle, I didn't have to worry about them, they did just fine
without me.  Then one day I noticed something, all I had
was blue cars.  The Blue Streak Series was the pinnacle of my obsession. A set of nothing but blue cars, and to make matters worse, I had to send away for the Blue Nissan Pick-up. (Traded away some lousy WHITE
Camaro Treasure Hunt to get it)  Then I noticed something else, some of my favorite cars didn't come in blue.  Viper, 58 Vette and a few others, and if they did,
they were hard to come by.  So I decided to diversify.  As of today I'm adding a new color of car to my collection.  Hello Aqua!        Love, ROCK

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