Tag: Ethics
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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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Manly BS
Manly BS I’m a manThat I amThe morning’s chillBut I don’t care See, my chest is bare‘Cause I’m a manWhen I catch that chillAs I surely will I won’t cryAs I die‘Caue I’m a manUnderstand? To prove myselfI’ll play the gameBear the pain ’causeI’m a man Bull Shit! –LE
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The Sound of Silence
The Sound of SilencePaul Simon Hello darkness my old friendI’ve come to talk with you againBecause a vision softly creepingLeft its seeds while I was sleepingAnd the vision that was planted in my brainStill remainsWithin the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked aloneNarrow streets of cobblestone‘Neath the halo of a street lampI turned…
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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 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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Premature Death
Spirit vs Form – A Poor Life vs No Life 11/1/83This poem fits into the timeline of the memoir around this point. Chris (my brother) told me of our tragedy last night, the death of my sister Becky’s baby, only 2 hrs old. Time for another reassessment of my views on life, death, and the…
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Youngstown
Youngstown LyricsBy Bruce Springsteen [Verse 1]Here in northeast Ohio, back in 1803James and Dan Heaton found the ore that was lining Yellow CreekThey built a blast furnace here along the shoreAnd they made the cannonballs that helped the Union win the war [Chorus]Here in YoungstownHere in YoungstownMy sweet Jenny, I’m sinking downHere, darling, in Youngstown…
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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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Lynn – Part 10 – Post-Split Complications – Memoir Continued
Post-Split Complications Once I understood that Lynn had no intention of returning…ever, I went out with a couple of other women a couple of times, but there was no simpatico and no desire nor commitments of any kind from me or them. It was fun and a relief after the frigidity Lynn had demonstrated since…
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