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The Magnet: October 2012
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Thursday, October 25, 2012. Looking back, it may have been that year that caused the pair of us to pivot, a start to the sprinklings of thoughts about what we should be doing with money. I suspect it still was two years off at this point, but the man with all the gold and the cigars certainly made a couple of bottom feeders like ourselves realise that we were not in control of our money. But, added "stupid taxes" at the end did little to surpress our joy at destroying that second mortgage. It was back in...
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The Magnet: Timeslip
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Sunday, April 12, 2015. The timeline, always a constant, and I think we're around 1993 in the proceedings. I would recount everything that happened in 1992, but that was a tragic year for my family, the year that my youngest brother, Paul, was killed. In the next few entries though, I will recount the other events, because they too deserve to be told. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Fool on the Hill. The Taxi Drivers Son. The Weldon Family History Archive. Subscribe To The Magnet.
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The Magnet: April 2015
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Sunday, April 12, 2015. The timeline, always a constant, and I think we're around 1993 in the proceedings. I would recount everything that happened in 1992, but that was a tragic year for my family, the year that my youngest brother, Paul, was killed. In the next few entries though, I will recount the other events, because they too deserve to be told. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Fool on the Hill. The Taxi Drivers Son. The Weldon Family History Archive. Subscribe To The Magnet.
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The Magnet: February 2013
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013. One of the things I realize as this blog and my story progresses is that the web is a very public place, so in some respects, as I name people in future entries, context will be important, knowing that some are very sensitive to criticism or have been rightly labelled by myself as psychopaths or sociopaths. You know, a selection of the darker side of the population that we all end up working with. Right, with that disclaimer out of the way, I can continue with this diatribe.
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The Magnet: December 2013
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Friday, December 27, 2013. I realize that I wasn't a job shopper long enough, it wasn't even a year at Menasco and I really did not learn anything about being a contractor, well, maybe a bit, but mostly, my mindset was still very much that of a permie. Permie, is that the right spelling? Perhaps it was, it was usually followed by wanker, for the full effect of the insult from the jobshoppeur, so my short tenure as a jobshopper was followed by a longer period of time as a PW. Yet, I persisted. I had the r...
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The Magnet: I did not realise at the time....
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Monday, May 11, 2015. I did not realise at the time. It seems that a lot of my time is spent here in the present, reflecting about the past and wondering what would have been different if I had done something in a different way and how things may have turned out or how people would have been affected. That being said, I regret not writing down what was happening in 1992 and '93 and I did not realise at the time how important it all was. We had talked on the phone a few weeks before and Paul had mentioned...
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The Magnet: January 2013
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Saturday, January 26, 2013. A bit Heath Robinson. In the later part of 1990 one of the structural proposals I was involved with for Menasco was for a latch mechanism for the Boeing 777, not just a simple door latch that is, this was one latch actuator (of a series of seven or eight a side) that would allow the wings to fold up. Yes, you heard me, a folding wing concept on a massive airframe like the 777. It's a bit Heath Robinson". This was not the first full size prototype in my career however, if you e...
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The Magnet: May 2015
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015. I'd come back from the UK at the end of 1992 with my younger brother's programmable calculator, a Casio. It was an impressive thing and in my opinion, bringing it to Canada to be a useful device in my career, served to keep his memory fresh in my mind. However, there was another device out there that caught my eye, and I knew that it had the capability to run Lotus 123, and be a "pocket" clamshell computer. It was a Hewlett Packard HP100LX :. And so it was. Tuesday, May 19, 2015.
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The Magnet: Crime and punishment
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Sunday, February 15, 2015. At the time there were numerous frustrations that started to eat away at me and start me on the path towards leaving once again. There were a large group of design contractors employed at Dowty and it seemed that because I was spending some time in the CAD room after hours, I was involved in a lot of the banter between them and was learning a lot (again) of what I was missing in the wallet department. And that, more than anything, pissed me right off. I don't know if at the tim...
