You Can't Win - Five Things You Didn't Know About Me

Monday, January 22, 2007

Looks like I've been tagged by Dan Miser, now I'm supposed to share 5 things about me that most people wouldn't know.

My junior year in high school I was in the very first computer class offered by Waukesha South High. We had 1 TRS computer with an LED readout (no monitor), plotter (no printer), using a card reader instead of a keyboard and cassette tapes for data storage. And it was so cool I used to cut other classes to sit in the computer lab.

While serving in the Marines, I spent several weeks in the summer of '83 at Area 25 for a training exercise. I didn't know it at the time, but area 25 is a bit southwest of "Area 51", both are part of Nellis Air Force range / Nevada Nuclear Weapon test site. And no, I didn't see any aliens or UFO's while I was there.
During my time in the Marine corps, I was the only person I knew with his own computer. In 1984 I purchased an Apple IIc with it's 9" green monochrome monitor, 1mhz CPU, and a whopping 128kb of RAM. I spent many a free hour pouring over my stack of Nibble magazines and my Beagle Bro's "Peek & Poke" charts, banging away writing ProDOS and Pascal programs.
I started working for the family resturant shortly after turning 12 (making I think $1.10 per hour). In the 32 years since then I've never been without a job. I've never been fired or layed off, and I've always had another job lined up when I quit my current one.
I've totaled 3 vehicles and had another 6 or so accidents in my life. I've never been in accident as a passenger in a vehicle, and I've never had a passenger with me in my accidents.

Monday, January 22, 2007 11:05:35 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

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Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:50:09 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Regarding #4:
Restaurant work is always commendable. There's is nothing wrong with being fired. Those who get Fired show entrepreneurial spirit and indicate the difference of just "maintaining the status quo" or "pursuing excellence". My guess is that you have had the same dead end job for many years and this is probably where you will end up when you are 65. It is possible to be completely happy working the requisite 8 hour job each day, providing the minimum effort required to keep your boss (who has been fired), satisified with the fruits of your labours and talent. Good luck with that and enjoy your 3% raise next year.

Randy Random

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