I learned a week ago that Becky K., the mother of Elyse passed away last Saturday, after a battle with cancer.Some of you know about Elyse…she is my daughter; Becky and I were work colleagues in the early ‘80s; after working closely together for two yrs, I accepted a job offer to relocate (from Detroit) to Los Angeles. About a week or two before I left Detroit, Becky and I spent a night together. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2024
Statement of beliefs and values – election 2024
July 26, 2024 By
You gotta know by now (after 8-9 yrs since the 2015-2016 presidential campaign trail), that I’m a liberal; I’m a democrat; I support gay rights, and same sex marriage; I support a women’s right to choose; I support women who have to make an agonizing decision, and that decision is theirs alone to make; I do not ‘get’ people who feel the need to stick their nose into someone else’s pregnancy. I … [Read more...]
Documentation and procrastination at work
July 10, 2024 By
Close to exactly two months ago (May 13th), I asked “Luetta” at work for copies of three specific MS-Word documents that I needed to update for a project I’ve been working on for last few months. One is called a user’s guide - and it’s a couple of hundred pages, a shorter one is called the programmer’s guide - a much smaller doc [Sorry, I didn’t write down the exact page counts]. The third one … [Read more...]
Working with a colleague, trying to determine why “Read-only” checkbox is checked on MS-Windows file.
July 4, 2024 By
Just another short blurb tonight (lol). Just another fantastic day at work today; a colleague had issues with a program he had developed, and QA (quality assurance) was testing; he was informed by QA either late last week or this past Monday that ‘something was wrong’, and I’ve been helping him try to determine the root cause. The irony here is he’s a seasoned cobol programmer (and I’m not), … [Read more...]
The question was “what exactly was/is a mainframe?”
April 3, 2024 By
So - in my opinion, “back in the day” - BEFORE windows/Linux/unix/intel/dell (from 1950s thru, let’s say: 1985-1990 - before Unix/windows NT servers came into existence), and take this (at first) with a grain of salt: A mainframe was not ‘commodity’ hardware; each computer manufacturer (before AND during the advent of the seven dwarfs / BUNCH), had their own proprietary hardware AND OS software. … [Read more...]
Modrl Railroading – structure building summary for 2023
January 31, 2024 By
Since late last summer I’ve been beating myself up with regard to my model railroading ‘structure building’ hobby. It all had to do with me finally getting motivated last yr around this time (Feb/2023), getting back to my hobby table building my “kits” (I hadn’t done anything project-wise during all of 2021 nor 2022). So, it was a big deal to getting back and start making things again. Then, … [Read more...]
