Hello steemit community!
My name is Richard and I am 70 years old. My son @codydeeds suggested I use steemit to write letters to my granddaughter. I fear I will not make it to her graduation and it would be nice to have something for her to read from me. He mentioned everything on this website being stored forever in a block chain. I am not sure how all that works but it sounds interesting.
A little about myself, I started working for General Motors when I turned 18 in 1964 and worked my way up to General Manager. I retired and 2002 after 38 years of employment and have been enjoying my retirement ever since. I really enjoy my annual fishing trips to Canada and betting on horses at the local casino.
I had been spending the rest of my time taking care of my elderly mother but she passed away last week. May take up writing as a new hobby. I do not have much experience writing but am willing to learn, acquired many insights in the last 70 years. No relationship advice however, I have been divorced 5 times. Will write some stories about what not to do in relationships possibly.
I look forward to participating and interacting with everyone on here. From what I hear it is a great bunch of intellectual cutting edge people. Since I have no idea what is going on here that seems like the case.
Thank you for reading and feel free to leave me a comment!
Welcome Richardd. Your first post got whale vote.
You will have to fill me in, I have no idea what that means!
You can ask your son. He will tell you about whale.
Welcome to Steemit and I look forward to read! All for one and one for all!!! Namaste :)
Not sure what namaste means, but thank you!
Great post dad! Happy to have you on here, I'm sure you will enjoy it a lot!
Your brought your Pops to steemit, what a good Son.
I do what I can. There seems to me a learning curve and I didn't get much time to go over it with him. My daughter was running around like crazy. He seems to be leaving some random replies. I will try to work with him a bit tomorrow. Thanks!
All smiles here. He's doing just fine.
thanks god for a good son
Welcome to the future of Social media @richardd. You are at the tip of the spear. We are the best platform for freedom of speech. Glad to have you brother, upvoted your post and now following you. Happy new year and welcome to Steemit!
it is not been a good year yet lost my mon
I am sorry for your loss @richardd , hope Steemit gives you some happiness. Looking forward to reading your posts brothers. Take care.
Thank you for the kind words, it is really appreciated.
the good part i did all i could for her for the last 15 years
Welcome, Richardd. What you post will be here always. as long as a computer runs the blockchain somewhere in the world.
Crazy! We will have bigger problems than blogs if all the computers go down.
nobody plans to get married that many times but i kept trying
thank you for steemit
Your very first post is doing quite well. It's good to see so many people welcome you to Steem.it.
Steem.it is a community. And I'm happy to say, the people here care about one another.
Sounds amazing, I had some help from my son. He is really into computers.
it is nice to have people who care
Nice to meet you Richardd!
Nice to meet you as well, thanks!
Welcome @richardd Gave you an upvote! Steem on. (Ps. get Cody going on that computer project - Update) ;)
Thank you for the upvote. I am sure he will. Been a busy week for him with two funerals to attend.
it will all be over the bad part
he did a good job on his grand maw help his dad out
i know its going get better just take it a day at a time
that is best way to look at it
you know a good son know what he has to do
Welcome! It's good to see you here 💕
I will have to explain to him that you are on here. Not sure how much he will explore.
thank you it nice to hear from you
Welcome Richard! :)
Thank you.
Welcome steemit richardd
Thank you.
Well I'm in the wrong place then! ;-)
Welcome to steemit @richardd :-)
Thank you, glad to be here.
No relationship advice Classic ! welcome
I know what I am good at and what I am not. Thank you!
Yes very important life lessons. Former auto worker myself, see you around.
it was a good place to work
do the best you can things will turn out ok
glad to be back it hase a good weeked
Welcome to Steemit! :))
Thank you!
thank to have some one to get out thing in life that hurts
hi there! welcome to steemit! hope you enjoy it here
I am sure I will, thank you!
welcome!
Thank you.
nice posting brother.
welcome to steemit...^^
Thank you.
Welcome @richardd, looking forward to great posts from you,followed already :)
Much appreciated, thank you!
Welcome to steemit @richardd, in no time you will pick up what is going on around here. Lots of people happy to help you if you don't understand something.
Yea, I plan to sit down with my son a bit tomorrow and go over things. Thanks for the welcome.
Welcome to Steemit!!
Thank you, glad to be here. Seems really neat.
Thank you.
Welcome @richardd
Thank you.
Hello Richard, welcome to Steemit! :-)
Thank you.
Hi. Steemit thrives on honesty and integrity. You are obviously an honesty genuine fellow. Believe it or not decent fellows are getting harder to come by in this, fake celebrity, fake politician, fake economy and fake news, era we now live in. Therefore you are very welcome here on Steemit. A down to earth platform for down to earth people. At least that´s how see it. Look forward to your posts. Upvoted and followed.
That is good to hear, I agree with the comments about the era we live in.
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