This post is a complete fiction. I made it all up. Don’t believe a word of it. Because, obviously, it can’t possibly be true. My family is more respectable than this. It was in the early 70′s and my parents had just purchased the Sunol Ranch. My Dad agreed to let my Uncle George board [...]
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Handicapping a Horse Race, Junkyard Style
Posted: 25th January 2012 by Roy Goble in Apocryphal, Family, Junkyard ManagementTags: handicapping races, horse racing
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My 2012 Predictions
Posted: 27th December 2011 by Roy Goble in Apocryphal, Random ThoughtsTags: 2012 Predictions
A friend recently asked me what was going to happen in 2012. I looked at him curiously … why would he think I’d have a clue? He persisted, “Make some predictions. I’m curious what you are thinking.” Well … hmmm … I never did answer him and instead promised a junkyard wisdom post about the [...]
Driving home from school in a Rolls Royce
Posted: 16th August 2011 by Roy Goble in Apocryphal, Family, Junkyard Management, Random ThoughtsSo this is a fun story. I grew up in the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose, about three blocks from Booksin Elementary School. Every day I walked a few houses down to my friend Greg Boydston’s home, then we walked together to school. Greg and I were best friends from Kindergarten on, sharing laughs [...]
Nicknames
Posted: 29th June 2011 by Roy Goble in Apocryphal, Family, Random ThoughtsTags: nicknames
Had a nice conversation with an old friend the other day, and he kept calling me “Kid” even though I was his boss for two decades. I finally stopped him and asked, “What’s up with this “kid” stuff?” He laughed and reminded me that it was my nickname when I was working in the wrecking [...]
Team Dysfunction, Junkyard Style
Posted: 21st September 2010 by Roy Goble in Apocryphal, Goble Properties, Junkyard ManagementTags: Junkyard, Management, Team Building, Team Dysfunction
It’s been too long since I posted a junkyard management story. Here is one of my favorites. Just a couple of years after college, I found myself running Goble Properties. My father moved out of the area to chase a dream of his: a gigantic 100+ acre junkyard in the Central Valley. He left me [...]
Burning Bibles & Qurans
Posted: 8th September 2010 by Roy Goble in Apocryphal, Belize, Random ThoughtsTags: Bible Burning, Christianity, Florida, Islam, Oprah, Quran Burning, Rainforest, Rush Limbaugh, Terry Jones, Zimbabwe
Below is a post that came from an article I wrote over 15-years ago. It has a dated feel to it, but it’s relevant today due to the idiots in Florida who want to burn the Quran. The whole thing in Florida is so clearly a publicity ploy. It has zero relevance to any political [...]
As summer arrives and we grow close to July 4th celebrations, here’s a childhood memory to share … I was about 10 years old, around July 1st, and it was late in the evening. Somebody in my family brought home fireworks. Definitely not the safe and sane kind; more like the kind that today would [...]
Baseball
Posted: 27th March 2010 by Roy Goble in Apocryphal, Random ThoughtsTags: Baseball, Giants, Willie Mays
It was a beautiful summer Sunday. My father had promised that we would go to Candlestick and watch the Giants play, my first memory of seeing a live professional game. It was probably 1965, and I was perhaps 6-years old, so my memory of details could easily be mistaken. But I think they were playing [...]