Tag: Memoir
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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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Back Into the Void – Part 2 – Memoir Continued
Post Kinetico Transition For the rest of my working career, I was an on and off again ‘full-time’ temp (Contract Technical Writer). I never did find a full-time permanent job with any kind of benefits at all. The rest of this memoir will detail some of my jobs and ‘gigs’. Then, some of my retirement…
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Back Into the Void – Part 1 – Memoir Continued
Back Into the Void – Part 1 A little over a year later, Kinetico laid me off. When they gave me my Exit Interview, they said they didn’t need a technical writer anymore, that the engineers’ secretaries would transcribe the engineering notes, and that would be good enough. So, there is no need for an…
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Anne – Part 20 – I Moved Out – Memoir Continued
The Split It took about a week, but I found an apartment in Ohio City, right across the river from Cleveland’s downtown, within walking distance of the RTA and the West Side Market. Guy helped me move in. It was the third floor of an old house that the owner was renovating for sale. My…
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Anne – Part 19 – Some Early Signs of the Inevitable (?) End – Memoir Continued
Some Early Signs of the Inevitable(?) End A few months into my stint at Kinetico, Anne was promoted to Head Editor of SWE Magazine. She also wanted to earn more and applied for an editorial position at Case Western Reserve University that came to her attention through those same Buddhist friends who had lent her…
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Anne – Part 18 – End of a Nearly 20-Year Relationship – Memoir Continued
End of a Nearly 20-Year Relationship On Valentine’s Day of ‘96, we went out for a ‘Valentines’ dinner, just she and I. We went to NightTown in Cleveland Hts. (I think). It was very nice, drinks good food and soft jazz piano. I enjoyed it and thought she did, too. But when we got home,…
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Anne – Part 14 – Even More Complications – Memoir Continued
Our Life Got Even More Complicated It got complicated for everyone. These were the Reagan and Bush Sr. years, with their combinations of union busting and suppression (and corruption) and good jobs leaving the country in troves, and then even faster during the Clinton years, soon to follow. There were few teaching positions open anywhere…
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Anne – Part 13 – Caitlin and Dylan – Memoir Continued
Citlin and Dylan are Born During my last year at Hiram, Anne became pregnant. She had decided that Sean needed a playmate. Twins should not have been surprising. There were twins on both Anne’s and my sides of the family. Hers were cousins. Mine were an aunt and uncle. But it still caught us by…
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