Wynkyn's Life

Wynkyn was born a LONG time ago... He thinks he is about as old as Dirt, because his Mommy talked about him and Dirt all the time when he was little... Wynkyn doesn't really remember Dirt; he thinks maybe Dirt was one of his invisible friends...

For some strange reason, Wynkyn was born without one of these... It means he gets lost a lot... If you ask Wynkyn, "Which way is North?", he usually just points UP... <grin>

Wynkyn was a good Boy Scout... He started with Cub Scouts and then Boy Scouts and finally Explorers... Wynkyn liked the camping and the canoe trips the best... And of course staying up late and telling all kinds of ghost stories...

Wynkyn used to hang out in the pool hall when he was a kid... He even got pretty good at playing pool... Probably because one of his friends was a real pool hustler...

Wynkyn used to make rockets when he was little... Wynkyn used his chemistry set to mix up the rocket fuel in his basement... Sometimes his Mom wasn't too happy about the results...  She said, they were really just sticks of dynamite with fins glued on...   <grin>

Wynkyn tried sports in school too... Football, Track and Wrestling... He often thought these skills came in handy in later years... Especially the running part... <grin>

Wynkyn even studied Karate... But he decided that he wasn't cut out for breaking bricks with his head...

Quite a while before he had grown up, they gave Wynkyn one of those sheepskin things and pushed him out on his own... Wynkyn tried to tell them he wasn't done being a kid, but they didn't seem to care...

Then one day, he met someone... And somehow he sensed that she was made for him... <grin>

When Wynkyn was younger, it seemed like his job was a lot easier... (Wynkyn often wonders what happened to make his job so much harder as he got older...)

Then there were three... Wynkyn wasn't sure he liked the idea of not being the #1 kid in the family any more... But the new #1 kid was pretty cool... So Wynkyn eventually got over it... And she did look so much like him... <grin>

Wynkyn used to love video games... He didn't know then that it would lead to a much more serious addiction (computers)... <grin>

Some days, Wynkyn feels like Atlas, and the whole World is riding on his shoulders... Unfortunately, he isn't nearly as strong as Atlas...  And besides, he is pretty sure the world has gotten a LOT heavier since the time Atlas used to carry it around...   

Part of Wynkyn's job is to figure out the road ahead and to decide which way to go... When he was younger, it seemed like he could see really far into the future, no matter how many twists and turns it seemed to take... It does not seem so clear lately... Do you suppose reading glasses would help? <grin>

On some days, Wynkyn knows EXACTLY what is expected, but that doesn't always mean it will be easy...

Wynkyn's brother surfs the Net from time to time... Wynkyn is always pleased to find him there...  His nickname is Jammer...

Wynkyn has tried golfing... He sometimes has to because it is 'expected'... But he doesn't like it... After the 5th or 6th hole, he thinks it will NEVER end...

Then one day, one of Wynkyn's friends told him about the World... And Wynkyn has never been the same since... He wants to see it all...

Hummm.... Is this the way Wynkyn spends his final days? Somehow I thought it would be a little more spectacular... <grin>