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Long Long ago
This was a long time ago. This is a picture taking while I worked on a Apple 2e I think in Tom Sorelle’s apartment. During this time of my life I was a special education teacher, teaching 6-10 year old mentally retarded children in the Houston Independent School district.
Every day that I went to school I packed up this computer in a case plus a printer and took then to school with me. I used the computer to help the children learn shapes, colors and if capable, could learn to recognize the own name in printed form. My principal would not come into my room because he did not know what the hell was going on. Seems like none of the administrative downtown staff did either.
WOOPPEEE! Everybody left me alone which suited me just fine!!
Then came the day in the early eighties when the big boys from downtown administration came to my school! They were evaluating us teachers and gonna tell us how to run our classrooms by something called TIME ON TASK!
When they gave me my evaluation they said they had scored me low because my WINDOW SHADES WERE NOT STRAIGHT ACROSS! Also I had to conform to the TIME ON TASK! even though I was teaching special education children! They then informed me that using a computer in the classroom was not the best WAY TO TEACH and for me not to bring MY COMPUTER to school anymore!
Next day I handed in my resignation because I could not teach special education children under their rules.
So ended my 201/2 years with the Houston Independent School District!
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Why I Am NOT a Meteorologist Today
After two and a half years in the Army, with a job description as a ballistic meteorologist, you may ask why I did not pursue meteorology as a career when I was discharged from the Army.
I did and when I started college at Lamar Tech College in Beaumont Texas I applied for a job at the local airport as a beginning meteorologist with the US Weather Bureau. Lo and behold I got the job with a rating of GS 7, due to my prior Army service. After 3 months training I was put on the midnight shift, by myself, to report the weather, as is was hourly, and to give out the morning weather reports for the day to the local radio stations in the area.
On a normal shift we were required to go outside every 30 minutes to observe the weather not just look at the instruments on the inside. Things like fog, drizzle do not show up on the instruments inside the building. If you were going to send out a forecast you always checked the regional weather in New Orleans to see if they had something not showing up at your station. Oh boy! I wished I had remembered that this one morning as I give my forecast to the local radio stations.
Had I checked New Orleans weather forecast, as I had been instructed to do, I would have seen that a front with huge amounts of rain was a couple of hours away from our Beaumont Weather station. But at 5an the Beaumont weather was clear, not a cloud in the sky. So the forecast that I sent to the radio stations said that today would be nice and sunny!
Well, I got off duty around 8am and by this time the front had arrived, along with buckets and buckets of rain. Needless to say my weather station was sending out a revised forecast for the day! As usual I went to my favorite eating joint to have breakfast and when I walked in, on the radio, blasting away, was my forecast saying today would be nice and sunny. Here I am dripping wet from the sheets of rain coming down, hearing this forecast! Everybody in the restaurant knew me and knew where I worked. Needless to say that bunch never let me forget my famous boo boo!
On another occasion I heard a Trans Texas Airways or TTA Pilot tell how he had just landed his plane, full of passengers, in blinding fog. He said he saw the runway about 10 feet above the ground and I was the one who had giving the ceiling at 500 feet just 30 minutes before that plane landed. I realized then the awesome responsibility a weatherman has working in aviation.
This was the stone that broke the camels back! Yet the major reason I never became a weatherman was I could not pass the math and chemistry courses that I would have had to take to get the meteorological degree.
Still very much interested in the weather and watch it every day on TV. Have two or three weather sites on my computer so I can keep up with what is going on around the world.
After the boo boos I've made I try to give them weathermen some slack.
I did and when I started college at Lamar Tech College in Beaumont Texas I applied for a job at the local airport as a beginning meteorologist with the US Weather Bureau. Lo and behold I got the job with a rating of GS 7, due to my prior Army service. After 3 months training I was put on the midnight shift, by myself, to report the weather, as is was hourly, and to give out the morning weather reports for the day to the local radio stations in the area.
On a normal shift we were required to go outside every 30 minutes to observe the weather not just look at the instruments on the inside. Things like fog, drizzle do not show up on the instruments inside the building. If you were going to send out a forecast you always checked the regional weather in New Orleans to see if they had something not showing up at your station. Oh boy! I wished I had remembered that this one morning as I give my forecast to the local radio stations.
Had I checked New Orleans weather forecast, as I had been instructed to do, I would have seen that a front with huge amounts of rain was a couple of hours away from our Beaumont Weather station. But at 5an the Beaumont weather was clear, not a cloud in the sky. So the forecast that I sent to the radio stations said that today would be nice and sunny!
Well, I got off duty around 8am and by this time the front had arrived, along with buckets and buckets of rain. Needless to say my weather station was sending out a revised forecast for the day! As usual I went to my favorite eating joint to have breakfast and when I walked in, on the radio, blasting away, was my forecast saying today would be nice and sunny. Here I am dripping wet from the sheets of rain coming down, hearing this forecast! Everybody in the restaurant knew me and knew where I worked. Needless to say that bunch never let me forget my famous boo boo!
On another occasion I heard a Trans Texas Airways or TTA Pilot tell how he had just landed his plane, full of passengers, in blinding fog. He said he saw the runway about 10 feet above the ground and I was the one who had giving the ceiling at 500 feet just 30 minutes before that plane landed. I realized then the awesome responsibility a weatherman has working in aviation.
This was the stone that broke the camels back! Yet the major reason I never became a weatherman was I could not pass the math and chemistry courses that I would have had to take to get the meteorological degree.
Still very much interested in the weather and watch it every day on TV. Have two or three weather sites on my computer so I can keep up with what is going on around the world.
After the boo boos I've made I try to give them weathermen some slack.
Monday, January 4, 2010
A Blast From The Past
Many times parents do not share with their children what happened to then in their past. This is something from my past that I think my children don't know about and might be interested in, as a history lesson, if nothing else. So...
HOW I HELPED SAVE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF PHILADELPHIA PA
After graduating from high school I went into the Army for a 3 year hitch so I could get the GI Bill. This was in 1952 during the cold war and we were in a hot war in Korea also.
Due to guessing, I made a good score on my Army electronics test and stayed state side to go to school, rather than going to Korea. Did not get into electronics school so they shipped me off to a 90mm anti-aircraft battery on the east coast.
I landed in gun emplacements batteries located in graveyards in and around Philadelphia Pa for two and a half years. Why were the batteries in graveyards you may ask? I did.
The only place that had any vacant unused land around Philadelphia was the graveyards. So our government leased? this land and placed our 90mm anti-aircraft batteries here.
Can you imagine a southern boy shipped to the far north Yankee land in the dead of winter?
My first anti-aircraft battery was being constructed and digging foundations, in the dead of winter, was not my cup of tea!
When they asked for volunteers to transfer to a Met unit I thought they said a Med, which would have meant a nice warm hospital deployment. WRONG!
They bundled all my gear and me in an open jeep and drove me from northern Philadelphia, in the dead of winter, down to the southwestern end of Phil. Did I wind up at a nice warm hospital? NO! NO! NO! I wound up at another 90mm anti-aircraft battery, yep you guessed it, in a graveyard !
It would seem I miss-heard and the work I was going to be doing was taking meteorological information for the 90mm anti-aircraft batteries in and around Philadelphia WHICH WERE LOCATED IN GRAVEYARDS!!!!.
So, for the next two and a half years I would be living in graveyards protecting the women and children of Philadelphia Pa.
HOW I HELPED SAVE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF PHILADELPHIA PA
After graduating from high school I went into the Army for a 3 year hitch so I could get the GI Bill. This was in 1952 during the cold war and we were in a hot war in Korea also.
Due to guessing, I made a good score on my Army electronics test and stayed state side to go to school, rather than going to Korea. Did not get into electronics school so they shipped me off to a 90mm anti-aircraft battery on the east coast.
I landed in gun emplacements batteries located in graveyards in and around Philadelphia Pa for two and a half years. Why were the batteries in graveyards you may ask? I did.
The only place that had any vacant unused land around Philadelphia was the graveyards. So our government leased? this land and placed our 90mm anti-aircraft batteries here.
Can you imagine a southern boy shipped to the far north Yankee land in the dead of winter?
My first anti-aircraft battery was being constructed and digging foundations, in the dead of winter, was not my cup of tea!
When they asked for volunteers to transfer to a Met unit I thought they said a Med, which would have meant a nice warm hospital deployment. WRONG!
They bundled all my gear and me in an open jeep and drove me from northern Philadelphia, in the dead of winter, down to the southwestern end of Phil. Did I wind up at a nice warm hospital? NO! NO! NO! I wound up at another 90mm anti-aircraft battery, yep you guessed it, in a graveyard !
It would seem I miss-heard and the work I was going to be doing was taking meteorological information for the 90mm anti-aircraft batteries in and around Philadelphia WHICH WERE LOCATED IN GRAVEYARDS!!!!.
So, for the next two and a half years I would be living in graveyards protecting the women and children of Philadelphia Pa.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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