Technical Documentation: The Final Frontier

Scrounged this off the internet by serendipity, looking for the worst example of a crowded engine compartment I could find. Thought it might ring a bell, given the proclivity of some of my friends for fixing things by shaking them and cursing...

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Writer's Block: Down on Memory Lane

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Time: About 1953.

Standing in a dark kitchen, turning the burners of our old gas stove off and on, watching the pretty blue flames come and go. Without warning, the oven exploded in my face: I had turned on that "middle" knob, without knowing that the oven had no pilot light and had to be lit with a match. (Remember, I'm about two at the time.) The oven had filled up with gas, and as soon as the next burner went on, woof!. The oven door banged me in the forehead, but shielded my face and body from the flames. My hair was singed and I had a nasty contusion where the door hit me, but there was no other damage.

My mother told me later that for months, any time I heard a loud explosion (common in New York, as they had to blast bedrock to dig foundation cellars), I'd get this faraway look in my eyes and ask "Boom?"

Writer's Block: Dream Job

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Watching over a school where kids are taught how to be global winners. Since the job doesn't exist, I'm in the process of creating it.

If that weren't my passion, I think it would be neat to travel all over the world evaluating hotels and restaurants for Michelin... all-expenses paid, of course!

Impressions of New York - Part II

Impressions of New York, Redux

Things I did... ( ...are behind the cut )

The sights, sounds and smells of the city seemed so natural to me... the wet, steamy smells above a subway grate, with the roar of a northbound express clacking up from the depths, took me back 50 years, and I reflected more than once that I have seen a lot of water pass under the bridge. More than half a century is a significant block of time, and I'm grateful I'm still in good health and able to enjoy such excursions.