Thanks Gene. I did mis-state about my grandmother moving into town, she moved from a 'half-dugout' house on the family farm.
I barely remember visiting there once. Yea, we got started 'late' for kids. Didn't get married till 30, and I just turned 60. So kids are still 20-somethings. In this area (hills of TN near Nashville) 'natives' would have me be a great^3 or 4 grandpa by now. I have met several in this area that are. That's what I get for growing up a 'city boy'. (mainly grew up in Dallas-FtWorth area) Before I fell in love with computers in the '70s, I was a MechEngr student. And materials science was especially interesting. Powder metallurgy was just coming out, and I like the idea of 'injection molding' metal parts. (Form powder in molds like injection molding, then once out of the mold, run them through a sentering or annealing oven to get the metal particles to melt into each other. Titanium dust was a favorite, but I started to do assembly and FORTRAN about then and there isn't enough time in life to learn everything (especially if beer and chasing skirts gets in the way!). Now with grey hair, getting into CNC and 3D printing is just my 'back to the future' moment of life. Trying to give up my HVAC frozen server tending all-nighters. At one time, I had a pix after a long work session taken a Sunday morning, after coming in at 7AM on Friday, asleep at my desk, 5 mainframe monitors in front of me, 3 other folks in the room asleep too, with coffee cups stacked nicely in the trash can with multiple 5' stacks of cups plus pizza boxes. ... That day my boss wouldn't let me drive home. But I still had to be back at 7AM or earlier on Monday to pick up any dropped pieces when users arrived. ... In retrospect it was foolish, but a challenge too. (It was doing mainframe office system maintenance on 4 separate systems and moving users data between data centers, as well as fixing EVERYONES email addresses so mail went to the right data center. A big task, and we did it every few months for several years. The system was PROFS, and of course IBM said we couldn't do it, so we HAD to do it! :) ... OOPS, Sorry for the memory lane (again). ><> ... Jack Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." — Admiral Grace Hopper, USN "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
