In the fall of 1980, I was kind of adrift. I’d graduated from high school, just about to turn 18, but I really had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. So, as a stalling tactic, I went to Fresno City College, where I could dip a toe in higher education while waiting for life to shove me in one direction or another.
So my days were spent doing data entry at my dad’s office or going to City (where I mostly remember hanging out in the quad area or playing ping-pong) and my evenings were spent drinking beer out in that neighbood with the streets but no houses, going to shows with Tim and singing with the band I’d joined just after graduating from high school.
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