My next job was with Polytron and it lasted for three years. Half of that time was on my last project. That project broke me. It had me out of town way too much. That job was followed by three more over a years time. The first one I just wasn’t the right guy for and that was followed by another that just ran out of work and the third was a personality clash between me and my manager.

My current job I’ve been at since August of 2007. It sounded like a dream job and except for too much time on the road it has been. I say has because I’m changing jobs again.

 A couple of weeks ago a head hunter that I had previously tried placing me called me up to see how I was doing and what my current employment status was. There was a company looking for someone like me and he wanted to submit my resume to them. Now, my resume had been submitted to them  at least twice in the past without any result at all. I told him I was skeptical of there being any result this time either and that I really wasn’t looking for a job right now. He gave me one last pitch though and I told him to go ahead and send it to them.

I was surprised when he called me back a few days later and told me they wanted to talk to me. I met with them this past Monday and discovered that I had worked previously with two other employees there and one contractor. The director of Technology had been employed by the company that I hooked up with when I came to Atlanta, Hampton-Tilley, and we knew a lot of the same people. I learned that the past couple of times I had sent them my resume it had never made it to the electrical managers desk.

Anyway, I received a call from the HR manager on Tuesday afternoon with an offer. It was a very good offer and travel would be a lot less. I told him I needed to sleep on it and I would call him back in the morning. I discussed the offer with my wife and we decided that I would accept the offer but would make a counter offer first. I’m getting too old to wait around to accrue extra vacation time. I wanted a week after six months and three weeks after a year.

I begin work on May 12, 2008 with Clyde Bergemann, with the vacation I asked for, in the position of Senior Controls Project Engineer.

In spite of the long hours and constant travel I will miss working with Matrix Scientific. There are good people working there and my customers were some of the nicest people you would ever want to meet. This was just too good of an offer to refuse. Hopefully I will only have one W2 form to worry about on my 2009 taxes.

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 observatory could not be ignored. Crows and hawks entertained me as I walked.

I looked down from a trail and saw a little cave or what could have been a fox’s den. I looked again and could swear I saw an old man peering back at me with one eye from the hillside. Can you see him?

The area truly is beautiful. My previous trips to LA had left me thinking that Los Angeles was lacking in something…. a place I wouldn’t care to live. This trip, with finding these trails has me believing that maybe I could see my self living there.

Electraflyer Corporation has strapped an electric motor and a lithium polymer battery pack on an old Monnet motorglider built from a kit, and the aircraft just this week earned its experimental airworthiness certificate. The company is also flying a battery powered ultralight trike which has about 50 hours on it.

I know this is a long ways from commercial flight but so was the Wright Flyer. Besides, with Avgas running at over $6.00 per gallon these days this could be the one innovation that keeps recreational flying attainable by ordinary pilots.

Atheists, however, are another matter. I don’t dislike them I just can not fathom how anyone can say, “There is no God,” with any certainty. I don’t understand them and I can’t help but view their certainty of there being no god as a bit of arrogance.

I know it may seem hypocritical of me to view an atheists certainty of there being no god and not some believers certainty that there is but I don’t see it that way. To me I can understand someone taking even the flimsiest bit of evidence of a god and having it become a certainty but just because to another there is a lack of evidence can not lead to a certainty that there is no God.

Look at it this way, we really have no universal definition of what a supreme being might be. On top of that we really have no consensus that a god has to be a supreme being or that just any supreme being is a god. Since we really don’t know what a god or a supreme being might be how can we say it doesn’t exist?

To look at it another way we live in a complex universe. The more we find out about it the more we find that we don’t know. Some look at the universe as being boundless, without limits or as constantly expanding. We understand the basic laws of physics and how they work but when we go beyond the basics we continue to find things to be just a little more complex than what we fully understand. We get a grasp on that complexity and that opens up even more complexity.

The complexities are proving to be more and more enormous the more we look. So are we so arrogant then as to think that we are looking at something that the human mind is fully capable of completely understanding? I’m not saying that it is useless and that we should stop looking and theorizing but what I am saying is that I don’t expect us to ever be able to comprehend the laws of physics completely, at least not in our current form.

So where am I going with this? If we can’t fully understand our universe, and by that we I’m also including the physicist who is so intelligent he can comprehend 26 different dimensions in a theory that has merit throughout the scientific community, if we can’t come to an agreement on what a supreme being might be or what a god is, how can we be so arrogant as to make the bold statement that there is no Creator God? How can anyone possibly state with any confidence at all that it all just happened?

Now, with that said I can fully understand someone telling me they can’t believe in a Sky Wizard or some invisible Magic Man. I find those terms offensive to me but I can understand someone not being able to believe in the God of the Bible or the Koran or any of the pagan gods out there. I just can’t understand how anyone can say with any certainty that there is no God, period.