From 1969 to 1985

I often had longer hair or a mustache or beard most of this time. However, life is always changing so for many jobs shorter hair was necessary like working being a computer programmer or computer operator you generally needed shorter hair. But, the other side of this is often I worked in the building Trades and in Landscaping Contracting and often one could easily wear a mustache or beard doing this too.

However, from about summer of 1977 to 1978 and from 1994 until a few years later this wasn't true because during a divorce it is a near death experience (as far as I am concerned) in my own life and because of this I found short hair (and thinking more like a soldier to survive this because my children still needed to be supported through all of this I often looked like a soldier in the Army who is on the front lines (only of Divorce) not battle where people are dying all around me.

I was thinking about this today and how different life is now here on earth than the late 1960s and 1970s in every way imaginable

However, the 1970s and 2026 resemble completely the suffering of the middle Class and poor when the Arab Oil Embargo happened and regular Gas went from 17cents a gallon to 50 cents a gallon in 1975 to 1 dollar a gallon in 1980.

So, imagine now the base price of 4 dollars a gallon and imagine within 10 years 4 dollars a gallon gas cost 20 dollars a gallon.

This is what we already experienced through the 1970s when I was 22 to 1980 when I was 32. So, this all was very real and reminiscent of now completely!