Wow, I've been gone for awhile...I really don't have an excuse...
If you've been following the media, every mortgage company in the US is going out of business and there is a 30yr supply of homes for sale. To be honest, I don't watch the news...I stopped watching it when I started to think that the media is the tail of the country and it is wagging the dog.
For the last two months, I have been concentrating on my family first and working on my business and VA Home Loan website second. I've also been networking more and sharing more of my personal information with people I work with.
This last week, I was discussing real estate with a Dallas agent...He was telling me how bad his business was and how depressed he was.
I decided that I would pick his spirits up and let him on a little secret...A secret that only ONE other person on AR knows about...
How I, John Parker, almost became a TV star...
Most of you don't know this (except for one person on AR) but I am a HUGE motorcycle fan...I have eaten, breathed and talked about Harley Davidson motorcycles for most of my life...My parents tried to squash my motorcycle fetish when I was young by not buying one for me. I did what most 12 yr olds would do and got a paper route to save up money to buy my own motorcycle...Of course, once I saved up enough money they wouldn't let me actually buy one...So, I bought my first BMX racing bike in 1978...I road it, raced it and eventually ended up racing road bikes in Europe while in the military from 1988-1992...
Oh, wait...that doesn't have much to do with my motorcycle fetish except for the fact that I love riding on two wheels (I still love to ride my bicycle though)...
This whole post has to do with how I was almost a TV star...For that, you will have to watch a video that my family and I made a few years ago...
Here it is...WAIT, you need to know the story behind the video before that! A few years ago American Chopper decided they wanted to give out 4 bikes to people with the best 3 minute video...
Shortly after I sent this video in, it was judged against 10,000 other entries...I was 1 of TEN other people that were flown to Burbank to be interviewed for a weekend...After that weekend and about THREE months of waiting, 4 people were chosen to be the recipient of a custom motorcyce and to be the star of an episode of American Chopper on the Discovery Channel. I have become friends with all of the winners and we still email to this day.
The weekend that we were notified that we were notified that we didn't win, my wife cried for about two hours...I was seriously depressed for the next few hours...
Until...
Later that day, we were also notified that her sons father died in France AND the next day, my wifes brother also passed away.
In retrospect, I would like to say that you need to keep your life in perspective and don't get upset by things that may not be so important...
Remember, family comes first!
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