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for the better part of a year because I was behind on a couple payments and I got fined because it was a drought and we had a big property so that kind of thing sticks with you yeah I mean really just cutting back on all expenses eating a lot of

instant noodles and peanut butter sandwiches.

So I would say that career cycle of the late, mid 80s to early 90s, that was a span of like six or seven years where it seemed crazy and then it was really crazy and then it was nothing.

Just like that.

Just like that, yeah.

I mean, it was like the span of a band with one good album.

You know, we toured on it.

And I don't mean that in the sense that my skills were fading or anything.

I just mean that no one was interested.

And kind of regrouped.

Yeah.

Like you said, I had to refinance my home.

I ended up selling it for what I owed the bank and moving into a more modest place and just kind of saving.

Yeah, I don't know.

I guess I had the inkling that it wasn't going to last only because I had lived through the first wave of popularity of skateboarding in the 70s.

And that's when I got into it, was when it was popular.

And when I really fell in love with it is when it dove in popularity.

But I didn't care because I was young enough and I was naive enough that...

The skate park near me was still open.

I can still go there whenever I want.