Category: Photography
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Anne – Part 11 – Fired By Airflex – Memoir Continued
Fired By Airflex One of the inspectors I was training, Ron, wasn’t picking it up fast enough to suit John, who felt entitled to belittle him every time he walked by the CMM on his way to his office. He was constantly complaining that the work wasn’t getting done as fast as he’d hoped, based…
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Anne – Part 10 – Problems In Paradise
Problems in Paradise Some troubling incidents started to present themselves early in the marriage. Anne wanted to handle our finances, and that was fine with me. So, we had joint checking and savings accounts. We both put our paychecks into the checking account and had 10% moved to the savings account monthly. The problems started…
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Anne – Part 9 – Work Sends Me to Chicago to Learn HP Basic – Memoir Continued
Work Sends Me to Chicago to learn HP Basic Airflex bought a computer controlled coordinate measuring machine that automatically measured points on objects in cartesian space. As I recall, it was made by Ferranti. The programs to run the machine were coded in Hewlett Packard’s Basic programming language. For whatever reason, the head of our…
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Anne – Part 8 – Sean is Born – Memoir Continued
Sean is Born During this time, Anne became pregnant with our first. My insurance covered the delivery. Unlike Lynn, Anne wanted a doctor to do the delivery, though I was in the delivery room with her, holding her hand through the whole ordeal. She went into labor in the afternoon one day in early October…
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Anne – Part 7 – The Penton Problem – Memoir Continued
Anne Quits Penton We had moved to an apartment building across the street from the duplex half we rented from Dave and closer to the corner of Hampshire Rd and Euclid Heights BLVD. Anne had been having problems at Penton, where she had been working since shortly after we met. She was being harassed by…
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Anne – Part 6 – Chris – Mom – Memoir Continued
Chris Graduates from College Around the time of our wedding, my brother, Chirs, graduated from Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, OH. We all went to his final show, where he performed his theater-mime. It was a very good performance. I don’t remember for sure, but I think his degree was a BFA in Theater Arts.…
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Anne – Part 5 – Married 1982 – Memoir Continued
Anne and I Get Married 1982 We got married at the Colonnade in Cain Park, Cleveland Heights, OH, by a justice of the peace. It was a much bigger affair than my first wedding. Anne’s family attended, as did many of mine, including my maternal grandmother, who flew in from Boston with Mom’s older sister…
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Annie – Part 4 – Memoir Continued
Annie – Part 4 Annie started going to a Jazz Dance Class and took Kristen with her. So, frequently, Ian and I’d pick them up after their class, and we’d go out to eat. Kristen did continue with the Judo, too, just not as consistently as Ian and me. Both Kristen and Ian became excellent…
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Annie – Part 3 – Memoir Continued
Annie – Part 3 – Pizza Hut Encounter Results in a Judo Commitment A few weeks after school started, Kristen, Ian, Annie, and I went out to eat at Pizza Hut for our ‘payday’ eat-out dinner. While we were there, I noticed an older Japanese couple, Ed and Grace A., sitting at one of the…
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Annie – Part 2 – Memoir Continued
Annie – Part 2 Once Annie had gotten her job at Penton (in the mail-room, from where she rapidly moved up to an assistant editor position over the next year or so), she moved into an apartment on the East Side of Cleveland, a building where her friend, Karen, was also living. Her friend, Lynn…
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