Larry’s Log

Up until 2002 I was a pretty stable employee. I left Picket, Tarpley and Associates after 15 years of service that year to follow my wife to Atlanta where she wanted to continue working for her company that had closed their Chattanooga office. The job I came to in Atlanta was with Hampton-Tilley Associates. The […]

I managed to find my way to Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles this past Thursday. I finished the job I was working on by 10:00AM and my flight home wasn’t until 11:10PM. In keeping with my resolution to take advantage of my travels more for personal enrichment I took off exploring. The trails surrounding the […]

I have no problem with people who claim to be agnostic. Lord knows I’ve been there and still find myself wondering at times. Still I consider myself a devout Christian who can recite the Apostle’s Creed with conviction.
Atheists, however, are another matter. I don’t dislike them I just can not fathom how anyone can say, […]

I’m on the west coast this week and next. I drove down to San Diego last night from Los Angeles. Things didn’t go all that well in Los Angeles. I managed to break a robot pretty bad. I’m taking today off before starting an install at a customers site in the morning. I’ll probably be […]

As of right now I only see three candidates that I believe are capable of holding the office of President of the United States. This has nothing to do with ideology, I’m not ready to pick on that yet, this is based purely on credentials and integrity. Two are Republicans and one is a Democrat.
 I […]

This is possibly the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen. I know y’all have seen these people jumping out of airplanes in these wingsuits and the camera shows them flying around with no close background to use to really judge what they are doing or how fast they are traveling. The guys are base […]

Okay, I just told you about the problems I’m having with a job in NYC. This problem is kicking my tail something awful and it shouldn’t be that hard. Of course you can always make it hard on yourself when you assume things and then don’t revise your assumptions as new facts come in.
This application […]

Most of what I do these days isn’t that difficult. I’m not working with cutting edge components or elaborate electrical circuits or even complex control schemes. It’s all pretty basic.
 Why then am I having so much trouble getting a vacuum pump to run at a customer’s site?
On October 23rd I arrived at my customer’s location […]

I’m still kicking around and traveling way too much. For several reasons I just haven’t had much to say. I keep having ideas for an essay but I can’t seem to bring those ideas into anything I would find interesting to read so I keep those ideas to myself hoping that I can find a […]

Los Angeles was interesting.
This was my first time there. The job involved three pick and place robots. I managed to crash all three. Two were violent enough to tear things up. There are some talks going on now between my boss and the owner of the company that built the robots for us over the […]

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Mr. Burton, this is Dr. K’s office. Please call our office in regards to a foot x-ray we received for you from Dekalb Medical Center.
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Larry, this is Dr. K. I need to talk to fairly urgently. Would you please call my office when you get this message
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I had my knee surgery this past Tuesday and so far everything is going well with it. The doctor found a torn meniscus rather than a cyst causing the problems. The muscles around the knee are sore but the joint its self already feels better.
My wife left for a week to spend some time with […]

In my last post I was sitting in an airport bemoaning my lack of time due to my long commute. I just took a step to correct that. I have accepted a job with Matrix Scientific and will start work with them the first of August. The company is located in Albion, NY and I’ll […]

Okay, y’all know where I am tonight and I have nothing else to do so I’m going to write. It has been a while since I’ve updated this website and I apologize to those of you who are still checking in here from time to time but there are two reasons that I haven’t written […]

There are some things I believe.

I believe in the Big Bang theory in that the universe exploded into being from a singularity.
I believe that all life on earth evolved into what it is now from a primordial soup over millions of years.
I believe that all the universe and all that is in it came into […]