Baseball, 2006
I’m not a sports fan but I do enjoy going to baseball games. Minor league games are my favorites but this year I have been to more major league games than minor. A few weeks ago I watched a Phillies/Yankees game at Citizens Bank Park. The game was good until the 7th inning, at which time the Yanks just walked away with the game. Yesterday I took in a Braves/Reds game at Turner Field.
Living in Atlanta you would think the Braves win over the Reds would have made me happy. The thing is that I spent most of my adult life in Chattanooga. The Chattanooga Lookouts have been a Cincinatti Reds affiliate for at least the last sixteen years. I became a Reds fan just from being a Lookouts fan. I’ve been to one Lookouts game this year. Hopefully I’ll make my second one this week.
I’ll be spending at least Thursday and Friday in Chattanooga. I hope to see some old friends during this time.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
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