1999 Moving on without wondering why

1999

Indoor flea market in Agawam next to the movie Plex

So I started off 1999 I don't know if I was working at red roof yet or if I just started but I'd gotten this job because I went out during a major storm snowstorm and I was filling out applications and the manager was impressed that I was willing to keep looking for a job even though the weather was crummy 

I haven't forgotten what DSS ignored in Massachusetts back in 1999. 

I also haven't forgotten how the Agawam police department Falsely arrested me on that BS restraining order violation.

Or how the Commonwealth misled me and with the help of attorney Brian Blackburn. they were able to coerce me into pleading guilty to that continuation without a finding, telling me it was a good thing, it wouldn't be on my record, attorney Blackburn lied to me, telling me fighting it could take decades and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even though the judge said out loud that this evidence didn't fit the charges, the judge was referring to the statement written by a friend of the person who claimed I violated this restraining order. That statement from her friend clearly said I asked her friend what was going on, I never made any attempt to contact the person who filed the restraining order or ask to pass any messages along. That judge should have thrown that charge out right then and there, instead of accepting that continuation without a finding plea. 

I haven't forgotten that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts doesn't want me opening my big mouth

Nathan was born March 17th I never met him

fall

working at the Red Roof Inn in West Springfield. I used to play chess with my buddy Chuck every single night all night, he was the security guard. Every morning we would do the word jumble in the newspaper and the crypto Quip. In fact he was the first person to make me aware of Mingles, my soon to be favorite karaoke bar( it's closed for good). Chuck would walk over there when his shift started later. He didn't have a car at the time, so I would pick him up for work every night and drop him off when I left. We used to go to a bar Joey's pub in Agawam. That was my first real bar experience we used to play chess at the bar, I loved the Crossword Jumble on the bar-top arcade. Photo-hunt was a awesome group gam, we'd also play pool and darts. Chuck would sing karaoke but I was too much of a chicken back then. We used to go to Joey's pub before we would head downtown Springfield to the hot club and other bars on Worthington St. Chuck and I used to watch wrestling all the time back in 1999-2004 wrestling was huge and hilarious. I got sick with hyperthyroidism again in 2003 after my youngest son was born. Unfortunately I become low energy and get erectile dysfunction when I'm sick, so that caused problems in my marriage. 

My neighbor Dave across the street convinced me to switch jobs so I left the night auditor job and started working at a heating and air conditioning warehouse control air supply

On New Year's Eve I had my sister shut the power off and scared JK she was terrified that the world was going to end because it was Y2K