Spring and Summer Season Plans...

[DavidEB310]

barfle,

I agree about Clarke, I too devour.

3001 was a bit tough to get through (maybe it was the timespan between works), however, I really enjoyed 2076.

It wasn't too long ago that I reread Childhood's End -- it was enjoyable all over again.

BTW, I'm still looking at the skies and waiting for the Overlords.

[barfle]

I was on a business trip when I saw 3001 in an airport bookstore. No brainer, I own the book. I had it read before we landed (probably a Seattle-Chicago flight or some such).

Nonetheless, Dave and Hal are both in cold, cold storage.

[DavidEB310]

barfle,

Maybe I'll reread both 2076 and 3001. It's been awhile.

Maybe I can fit those in with the other 5 books I'm reading...I just don't have the time I used to to read.

Plus, I'm working on writing my own (in between the hours that I tech write). yikes!

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Clarke. I must have read The Deep Range a dozen times as a teenager.

Another tech writer? Yikes yourself! I'm beginning to feel like a species of mildew.

[sadie]

Selma,
No mildew on tech writers please! My husband is a tech writer currently at a Biotech firm, he's lucky enough to enjoy his work and finds he can adapt to different types of businesses. What type of business do all you other "tekkies" work at?

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Aircraft maintenance manuals. Highly valuable, good readership, really bad plots.

[mmichaelson]

Accounts Payable, Inventory person, Travel Coordinator and Reimburser, Fleet Management person, general girl Friday with a crappy paycheck for VTPP with TAMU.

[sadie]

Aircraft maintenance manuals. Highly valuable, good readership, really bad plots.


Woops! My tired eyes initially read "plots "to be "pilots"!

[lioness]

you still may not be off track there sadie!


commercial collections manager for large machinery and equipment leasing company

[barfle]

Former video engineer/ corporate trainer/ webmaster/ computer geek turned gummint bureaucrat dealing with patent applications.

If any of you think engineers write in the obtuse, you should try reading what lawyers put into patents.

[DavidEB310]

Sadie Lady,

I'm a Tech Writer at a Biotech firm!

Are we married?

[piqaboo]

originally posted by Dave Bowman:
wondering if I had been the cause of her death. It was a great shock to her. How did I know that hairbrush held so much static electricity?

Oh Dave, LOL! A Mr Lewis Award to you, sirrah!

originally posted by DavidEB310:
Sadie Lady,
I'm a Tech Writer at a Biotech firm!
Are we married?

DEB, ROTFL!

job:
Assay development scientist at biotech firm. For the past few years, that's meant sitting on my tuchis at a computer desinging experiments, analyzing other people's labwork, and writing up the results.
Assays - jargon for them medical test thingies that the doctors order on the samples they take from our bodies- like cholesterol levels, tests for cancer, HIV, the percent and purity of gold in our ore, etc.


spring and summer plans:
desert wildflowers, coastal wildflowers, trip to england/ireland with choir, possible trip to visit altoid's other gramma, zoo, aquarium, opera, shakespeare at the old globe. This will require at least five sessions with babysitters. Wish us luck in finding them!

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[sadie]

I'm a Tech Writer at a Biotech firm!

Are we married?
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Ha! Funny....
Actually I didn't even realize there were any biotech firms in Rhody, although being so close to friendly neighbors it would be easy to commute or even work from home if you're so lucky! As long as your company's main product isn't Vioxx....

[barfle]

Over-the-hill electronics engineer (it's amazing how quickly my BSEE became obsolete) and corporate trainer, now telling attorneys why their clients can't get a patent (usually because they want a patent on a "video recorder," without the details of their invention).

[sadie]

Barfle,
Anyone who can tell an attorney what to do is definitiely NOT "over the hill".

[DavidEB310]

Sadie Lady,

The largest Biotech company in the world is located in Rhode Island -- AMGEN. Based in Thousand Oaks, CA the new manufacturing plant built in West Greenwich, RI cost half a billion dollars.

I was there for 2 years. I'm now working in MA.

[sadie]

Now that you mention it I have heard of Amgen but never realized they had such a big operation in RI. It seems like there would be more opportunites in MA for any sort of tech work anyhow, and Boston is always a happenin' town to work in...

although I'm clearly biased-

[barfle]

Originally posted by sadie lady:
Barfle,
Anyone who can tell an attorney what to do is definitiely NOT "over the hill".

I can make suggestions on ways to get their application approved, but telling them "what to do" isn't part of my job description, I'm afraid.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

How about "where to go"?

[monkeymd2b]

DavidEB310 - come to NOLA for jazz fest. Lots of fun and hey, you can even get a nice sunburn...I mean tan.

My spring/summer plans - bum around the house in PJs, watch movies, continue to teach myself spanish (grammar is easy, it's obtaining the vocabulary that takes time), count down the days to Match Day (only 11 more), go home to hawaii in april to see friends and family and spend a few days on Kauai, fly up to my new city of residence (Portland, Sacramento, or Seattle) and find a new home (2 bedroom with appliances), move to new location, graduate, cry my eyes out saying goodbye to all my friends here, have panic attack in beginning of june, and on june 23rd, start residency. Then for the bigger part of my summer, I will have panic attacks and live on hospital food as I adjust to life as an intern. But hey, at least I'll get paid about $3.50/hr for all that hard work! OH, but taxes will strip most of that from me and then I have to set up some sort of investment folio. Yep, hospital food is looking mighty delicious!

Oh and maybe I'll try growing plants again. There's got to be an invention that waters plants automatically right?

If I had unlimited funds, I would go to Japan (ancestral homeland), Denmark (original Legoland - I LOVE legos), the NE U.S. to revisit the museums and see the ones that popped up in the last 15 years, Point Barrow Alaska because it's above the arctic circle, Australia, New Zealand, the Dead Sea to see if I can really float on my back without even trying and i really really love salt, a miniature golf heaven because putting is the only skill in golf that I mastered after taking lessons.

If you actually read through all that ramble, I'm impressed.