most memorable

[smithers joe]

what is your most memorable achievement in life, not counting marriage or children? just one.

[bishopshodan]

Blackbelt ( shodan )

 

 

 

[runningback33]

Buying a car

[Honkin Hronek]

Signed to a semi-pro soccer team this past year

[PureQuickness]

One memory that I'll never forget? Getting lost in Mexico in an area that didn't speak much English and I couldn't speak any Spanish. It was an adventure, but I was lucky that nothing happened.

[Ducklover]

Flying an ultralight solo

[Gurn]

Things that involved others:

Talked some doctors into changing  drug prescriptions, for a few residents at a handicapped hospital; resulting in a better quality of life for them.

Did emergency first aid, both at work and out on the road, numerous times, thus helped save a couple of people.

Sat and listened/talked to a despondent man for a few hours, helped him through a rough go. Found out later he was on his  way home--to end his life.--Still see that guy around town once in awhile-which makes my day better every time.

 

things that are 'me' achievements:

got most of my memory, and good mood back after a concussion.

Chess game is likely better than it ever was.

Stereo basically complete.

[-dlc-]

BCRPA certification

Animal activist and shelter volunteer

Surviving a really traumatic relationship that crushed my soul (and my nose)

Working in a job I love/with children (especially the ones with autism)

 

(c'mon Joe, you know me by now...I can't ever do "just one" on anything. Songs, books, whatever it may be!)

[Snoop Hogg]

Re-learning how to walk in 12 days when my doctor told me it would take 3 months, if I ever did walk again and it wasn’t guaranteed.

[Shift-4]

5 hours ago, smithers joe said:

most memorable achievement 

 

Alzheimers 

 

[grumpyone]

4 1/2 years old, broke my right arm's elbow- bone was sticking out and everything. Dr's said that I'd never regain full use of my arm.

I started to use my left hand for everything. Slowly re-using my right side. As I got older I realized that I could do ALL sports with BOTH hands.

Hockey, baseball, volleyball, golf, ping pong, billiards... I could do all of these with both hands/arms.

I loved starting out playing left handed and then switching over to the right side...I am not left handed...should have been a fencer.

Even to this day I am ambidextrous for sports... breaking that arm was the best thing ever for my sports game. 

[Cerridwen]

Flying Fire Watch with Interfor one summer in a helicopter whose landing pad was the roof of a float house. (Terrified of heights)

 

Screaming down the highway on a Harley and realizing that even if we wiped it I was probably going to die anyway so I might as well enjoy it! lol

 

 

[Ghostsof1915]

White Water Rafting on the Thompson River. Walking around in Paris, Edinburgh, London. 

Visiting Urqhart Castle Ruins by Loch Ness, and able to get to Stonehenge. Seeing Hamlet at the recreated Globe Theatre. 

Tower of London (didn't bother to see the Crown Jewels), Edinburgh Castle as well. 

Other highlight, despite visiting the Louvre, I was more impressed with the Rodin Museum. 

[Canuckpuckluck1]

Tough one to answer @smithers joe.

 

Lots of things have occurred in my 56 years.

 

Possibly winning a silver medal at the World Masters Games in Sydney in 2009, would be one of the best personal achievements.

 

Getting my black belt in Seigokan Karate was pretty awesome too

[Ilunga]

Teaching a blind person to Ski.

 

Pete was an inspirational guy.

65 years old, never skied before. 

 

I worked with a few " handicapped " skiers.

A few us were designing and building the sit ski's in Australia for our friend Mick Norton.

 

Mick was another inspirational guy.

Lost the use of his legs in a motorcycle accident.

We coached and trained him.

We free skied with him, dragging him out to Mary's Slide on powder days.

 

Mick went on to win 2 gold medals at the Albertville Paralympic Games in 1992 

 

My dear friend Mick 

 

 

 

Mick died 1996 at his home in Melbourne. 

 

Rip in peace my friend.

 

[Bell]

Still being a Canuck fan since the day the Canucks were born

[smithers joe]

in my 20 + years coaching minor baseball and hockey, i mostly had winning teams. one year when i started coaching in north delta the tryouts and draft happened on a day i had to work. i asked the league to pick a team for me. they must have forgotten till the draft was over and pick my team from who was left. only one boy had ever played ball before. we lost badly, the first half of the season, but i kept working to teach them the game. there were 6 teams in our division. by the midway point we started playing better. we ended up 4th place by seasons end, but we had beaten all the teams in the league. i know, 4th place, but i was so proud of that team, they were winners to me.

 

the story of ray also comes to mind. some of you might remember it.  i guess, all our stories are the stories of life. thank you all for sharing.

[Petri Skriko]

On 8/17/2024 at 9:56 PM, smithers joe said:

what is your most memorable achievement in life, not counting marriage or children? just one.

 

Summer of 1995 in Abbotsford: 

 

Winning a 4 hour 3-set tennis match that would determine who would qualify for the Under 14 Canadian Nationals at the time. I won 6-7, 6-4, 6-4. Competed in Mississauga 6 weeks later and got to the semi-finals in doubles. 

[smithers joe]

10 hours ago, Bell said:

Still being a Canuck fan since the day the Canucks were born

i was around from the beginning too. kurtenbach and schmautz and back when the canucks were in the whl and pchl. some posters on here remember the whl canucks. dunnybrooks against the new west minster royals at queens park. at 86 i remember the old 6 team league and gordie howe's rookie year.

i remember jackie robinson breaking the color barrier and the great battles between the yankees and the brooklyn dodgers. when your my age, you'll remember events that others never did. these events never die if someone remembers them. cheers.

 

[grumpyone]

11 hours ago, Bell said:

Still being a Canuck fan since the day the Canucks were born

my son was only 6 days old, first Sat home from the hospital. He laid on my chest, head towards the tv and stayed awake, watching the Canucks play the whole game.

While in grade 3 he was chosen to be a guest in Linden's Captains suite for a game. Limo ride, met Trevor too ( he happened to be injured at the time )

He's now 35 and still a hearty Canucks fan. You might say I trained him up right. 

[Optimist Prime]

On 8/17/2024 at 6:56 AM, smithers joe said:

what is your most memorable achievement in life, not counting marriage or children? just one.

I want to break the rules and pick two: going to the western canadian allstars in my BC Junior days and trying for my shot in the CFL (didn't make it), and then kicking off my career that culminated with having the highest security clearance in the country and working for the betterment of Canada and the larger world by extension. 
So two things I am proud of, but loads that I would say aren't achievement worthy that I would not be proud of also. Life goes in cycles. 

[-dlc-]

Oh, thought of another one (sorry Joe)

 

My parents were poker players growing up and I didn't get it. At all. But then I learned how to play and we started having family games where I learned a lot from them.

 

I started entering free rolls on line and won real $$ without putting anything in. My son and I cashed out a few times for $400 or so each time.

 

Then I entered a contest...a series of freeroll elimination tournaments that led to an all expenses paid trip to Europe to play a Poker Stars tournament (including entry fee).

 

I'd tap out in the wee hours at times (as I had to work in the morning)...I'd let my son take over for me when I knew I had to get some sleep for work. It was for fun mostly, so no expectations. I mean, these tournaments went on for 8-12 hours at times!

Anyhow, I won my way all the way through to the last stage/game where the top winners got a paid way into the big money event.

 

I had to set my alarm for 4 am. I was doing well, building up a good stack of chips when I flopped a full house and pushed all in. Called (by a guy with slightly more chips than me). Bad beat - why the hell was he calling with that???

 

I had pocket 8's and he had J8...the flop was 8-J-J giving him the higher full house. Out. Done. So close.

 

But I'm proud of the fact that I play a solid game of poker....I miss our old game that we used to have on CDC. I learned from the best! (My Mom taught Gino how to play)

[smithers joe]

i have a silly one, but near the beginning of playing organized baseball, i was mostly a bench sitter. we had 3 extra players and i was one of them.. i rarely played more than an inning. one game the other team had just 9 players, then one kid got hurt. their coach came over to see if they could borrow a player. i jumped up and said, i'll go. our coach said yeh, take pratte. i went 2 for 2 at the plate, drove in the winning run and made a game saving catch in the outfield. the only reason it was memorable was from then on i started every game and usually was the first batter in the order. if that hadn't happened, i'ld probably be still sitting on the bench. it also helped set the direction of my life.

[-dlc-]

1 minute ago, smithers joe said:

i have a silly one, but near the beginning of playing organized baseball, i was mostly a bench sitter. we had 3 extra players and i was one of them.. i rarely played more than an inning. one game the other team had just 9 players, then one kid got hurt. their coach came over to see if they could borrow a player. i jumped up and said, i'll go. our coach said yeh, take pratte. i went 2 for 2 at the plate, drove in the winning run and made a game saving catch in the outfield. the only reason it was memorable was from then on i started every game and usually was the first batter in the order. if that hadn't happened, i'ld probably be still sitting on the bench. it also helped set the direction of my life.

You just needed a shot to prove yourself, Joe. Taught that coach a few things, didn't ya? 

 

That's awesome. 

[smithers joe]

6 minutes ago, -dlc- said:

You just needed a shot to prove yourself, Joe. Taught that coach a few things, didn't ya? 

 

That's awesome. 

i might be out to lunch but i've always believed that baseball teaches, youths about life. i use to give all my players a copy of john wooden's pyramid of success. i'ld love to go back and see how each boy made it through life. did my teaching help them at all?