Category: Photography
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Life In Ravena Until Retirement – Part 2 – Memoir Continued
Life in Ravena Until Retirement – Part 2 The trailer was in pretty good shape when I bought it, but it needed a new sealent coating on the roof. So, I picked up the appropriate roof sealing paint, and with the help of my brother, Guy resealed the whole thing. It took us most of…
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Life In Ravena Until Retirement – Part 1 – Memoir Continued
Life in Ravena Until Retirement – Part 1 Shortly after my Rockwell job ended, I bought a trailer (mobile home) in a mobile home park on the outskirts of Ravena (a few miles northeast of Kent), where I lived until I retired. The lot rent and my loan payments for the trailer, combined, were quite…
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My Residence in Kent – Memoir Continued
My Residence in Kent, OH Toward the end of my time in Kent, Kristen and her family came to visit me. That included her husband, Jerry, and her two sons, Jerid and Colin (my grandchildren), who were a year or two younger than my twins, Dylan and Caitlin (their aunt and uncle) We had a…
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A True Memoir ~ Mostly
A True Memoir ~ Mostly mental gymnasticsput yourself backin time to who you and theywere then but with hindsight perspectiveevaluation andintrospection attempt to be fairto youself andthose who accompaniedyou througheach of the physicalemotional and psychical features of yourhistorical arccradle to grave memoir needs a personal perspectivebut realistic truthfulevlauation of times and events leadingto the writing…
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Martial Arts During My Temp Work Career, ‘Till Retirement – Memoir Continued
Martial Arts During My Temp Work Carreer, ‘Till Retirement Most evenings and weekends, I worked on perfecting my own styles of martial arts, Aiki-jujitsu and Aikido, and Tai Chi Chuan. I also took lessons in Bagua Zhang and Xingyiquan. But I didn’t get very far in them, just not enough time. I should have started…
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Temp Work – Diebold and Phillips – Memoir Continued
Temp Work – Diebold and Phillips One of my temp technical writer positions was for Diebold, Inc. in Canton, OH. I worked on updating their spreadsheets and operation manual templates to reflect the changes dictated by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. This was another short-term project, lasting about 6 months. It was also the best…
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Tina W. – Part 2 – Memoir Continued
Tina W. – Part 2 So, I made an email account, calling myself El Lobo, and sent her friend, who turned out to be Tina, a couple of poems. Tina liked them and sent me a couple of her’s. Then Sue told me to ask Tina about her cat dying and some other things that…
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Tina W. – Part 1 – Memoir Continued
Tina W. – Part 1 Back at Kinetico, after my split with Anne, one of my co-workers, an older engineer, Sue V., knowing of my recent separation from my wife, wanted to hook me up with her best friend, Tina W. I told her that I wasn’t interested and thought that was the end of…
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50+, Temp Work, and Divorced Round 2 – Part 2 – Memoir Continued
50+, Temp Work, and Divorced Round 2 – Part 2 I was having a late breakfast with a couple of the engineers I worked with at Rockwell and watched the two planes hit the towers on the diner’s TV, Breakiing News. Needless to say, the whole country was in shock and denial for years after.…
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50+, Temp Work, and Divorced Round 2 – Part 1 – Memoir Continued
50+, Temp Work, and Divorced Round 2 – Part 1 After a couple of years of being ‘single’, during which time I did have a couple of very short-term dating experiences, I met someone who would become my long-term partner and confidant. I’ll get into how we met soon, but for the present, suffice it…
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