’77 Hawk Profile
Dave Robbins
wavie@allstorage.clearwire.net
Hi Everybody!
If you'll let me get
my cane and hearing aide we can take a stroll and I'll tell you my story .........
In October 1977 I
went to the Nashville Auto Diesel School for a year to find out I definitely did not want to
be a diesel mechanic. What was I thinking? Just trying to please
dad .........
Came back to Daytona and
went to work at The Days Inn as a maintenance man until 1982. In February of '82 my brother Ron was killed in a motorcycle
accident (the longest day in my life) and I was asked to go work the
family Convenience store where I learned how to run a business. In 1985 I
struck out on my own and bought a Water Softener repair/salt delivery business
that I kept until my father wanted to retire. So in 1996 I sold my softener
business and took over the family business "All Storage"
(Personal storage) where I also fell in love with the PC. I mean, how cool! These
things are better than that little console Spock used to play with all the time
on Star Trek! Especially now, pretty much anything you want to know,
investigate, create, is at your finger tips. Have you seen "Google
Earth?" So now I'm that friend you go to when your PC messes up:) I've also kept a piano close all these years and now
write with the aid of the PC sometimes. You can follow this
link to hear something I
wrote about the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr. And I'm
not so much of an Earnhardt Sr. fan but was
asked to write this so ...............
I've also always
loved the water and boating, pretty much raised on sail boats. Last year I finally
bought a small one, a Catalina 25 named Bamboo. All I can say is, "I
wasn't sure I'd ever fall in love again" but let me tell you I have.
There's nothing quite like it. Maybe a sail plane? parachuting? surfing? Better than
any therapist! Go check out my "Bamboo" web site! I'm hoping to get together with my old
"crew" Bud Balch (we put a couple thousand
miles on a Cat 22 in the 80's) at the reunion and put him to work again!
So, that's what's up
with Dave, thanks for tuning in and we'll see you in July!
(Posted 03-21-2007)
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