Tsai-ko Autobiography:  FloridaTed  (originally Ted Domay)

Name:  Theodor Domay
High School: 
Tsai-ko Lunch Size:  normal
Original Tsai-ko caricature:  second row, right end
Other:  Passed away July 21, 2010.  Resided in Clearwater, Florida

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From the Warrior Beat blog August 12, 2007:
ST's Intro:
Florida Ted has traveled the world, encountering several cultures.
Perhaps that's why he was an easy fit in Warrior Nation.
Florida Ted, who was our first No. 200 poster, brings us intelligent and multi-cultured perspectives each day.
Here's Ted, in his own words:

"On February, 25th, 1947, I was ejected onto this Planet. Growing up in post-war Germany was a somewhat mixed blessing. As a child, the ruins all around me seemed more like playgrounds, rather than something evil or sinister. But once I'd reached my pre-teens, they'd all disappeared as if by strange magic.This semi innocent period was soon followed by the brutal awareness of what my country had wrought upon the world. To this day I still shudder sometimes when my thoughts return to that period.

"My desire to leave was overwhelming and right after high school I signed on to the four mast School Ship "Deutschland ," moored in Bremen, Germany. The happiest 10 years of my live followed. I signed up on all kinds of specialty ships, with better pay and longer shore leaves. For the next 10 years at sea I've experienced every human condition and every natural phenomenon known to man. St. Elmo's fire, northern lights, hurricanes, tornados, earth quakes, locust swarms, sandstorms and tidal waves. I've met every human race and culture in their natural environment. I've been in a Freighter Collision in the cold Northern Atlantic, Russia during the Cold War, lived with Bhuddist Monks in a remote Malaysian Monastery. I went up the Niger River on a genuine safari with the natives and saw a village, barely touched by "civilization." We almost expected Dr. Livingston to walk out of the jungle. 1969 was spent in Tobruk, Lybia, where we witnessed Qaddafi's revolution. Many of the troubles we're facing today I saw brewing that long ago, when he took the country away from then ruler King Idris. On the outskirts of Capetown I sat in shanty shacks, discussing the beginnings of the apartheid revolution and their plight with the natives.

"My last Ship was the Research Vessel "Valdivia", which brought me to the beautiful shores of Hawai‘i in 1971. I had found my home, it felt right from the moment I stepped on shore. Over the years I operated various small businesses with the last being 'Grace House Association', a non-profit, long term Alcohol and Drug Rehab facility. Before I crashed and burned, we had 118 beds available. I didn't know then, that the big boys in the do-good business do not take too kindly to the small guys that grow too fast. Well, now I live in Clearwater, Florida for about 14 month, trying to rebuild my life and be closer to my grand children, while they're still small. By the time my wife and I are 65, we hope to be back in our beloved Islands.

"A large Hawai‘i resident named George Kiesel (lol), whom I had become friends with, taught me all the American sports during the Termite Palace days. Needless to say, always UH games. That's how I became a rabid UH fan to this day and no other team will ever occupy the same place in my heart, including the German National Soccer Team. This blog has helped me many times when I get those sudden attacks of home sickness. I've checked out many blogs in Hawai‘i and around the country, there is no other that comes close to a tight-knit Hawai‘i community like this one.. It will become a growing fixture in cyber space. Aloha! Go, Warriors."

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