Wasp asked if I would chart a short bio of myself as he/she thought I had an interesting life. This only touches on my work life as I have other interests and adventures.
After my service I was a nurse for over twenty years
After nursing I drove liquid O2 tankers for Airgas in Oregon and Alabama.
Moved to Alabama working for Airgas, my wife and me had a small goat farm in the swamp south.
Now, retiredor retarded, some days I can’t tell the difference
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Thanks. That was nice.
Always good to be able to place a face with a name.
None of these photos are of me… I used pics off the interweb. Sorry to burst your bubble. Phil posted back in late July or August a picture of me and him doing a old fart selfie if you want to gander a look at what I yam. Not a flattering picture, but then again I am not flattering.
My bad. The picture of you working on an Indian subcontinent hay and cattle farm should have been a tipoff. Duh.
The FBI has plenty of pics of Cederq if anyone is curious what he looks like.
I picked that one to see who would catch it, and you did… I do that a lot, put easter eggs in my series to see who is paying attention.
Does that include getting drunk on a USN ship off Western Australia? As Yank Navy ships are ostensibly dry, it means that grog was smuggled aboard or you got stuck into medical alcohol.
A serious breach of military discipline there, did you arrest yourself to maintain order?
He forgot his full time hobby as a shit disturber…..
And he is definitely disturbing.
I was gonna call you and see how you are doing, now I am gonna call and razz you.
Razz, not raze. Don’t want to be a word Nazi, but there you are.
You’re welcome.
I fixed it…
Thanks, I resemble that…
Retired or retarded? If you are both, then you won’t have to remember which one you are. Simplifies life.
Have fun!
Like an International diesel- a twelve-letter shit spreader
That is quite a resume. Farming – law enforcement (military) – healthcare – long distance trucking – retirement. A lot of knowledge crammed into a lifetime. Cool ! Pleased to meet you.
Well that sure beats my life as a construction cleanup guy and part time McD’s french fry maker.
You drove LOX tankers? Do you clank when you walk??
Yup, all over Western Washington and especially Seattle to Boeing, Microsoft, The hospitals and out to the sub base and out to San Juan Islands. In Alabama I went to Birmingham and Atlanta… White boy driving a tanker in those towns, I had my doors locked and my tire thumper close by. I always said, if the tank got ruptured they would name the crater after me…
We used to get 8~10 tanker loads of LOX delivered at Sea Launch before we headed out on a launch. I had safety courses in LOX handling, and things can get out of hand quickly with a spill.
Very quickly drjim, one liquid you didn’t make mistakes or wander your focus. I actually sprayed two fellows with my CO2 extinguisher because they were smoking within 25 feet and would not put them out or heed my warnings and I didn’t take too kindly to being accelerated…
At first I thought you said you had sprayed ’em with LOX!
Would’a served ’em right, too!
Wasn’t worth the paperwork, no doubt!
Igor, you deliver LOX in a 4″ coupled and sealed reinforced hose and you have maintain a certain internal tank pressure and hose pressure and you can’t spray and maintain that pressure, you think about though… one thing about LOX is it is the prettiest, intense blue color when you drain the hose after uncoupling and spill out residual.
Yep, it sure is a pretty color. The only things we treated with more caution were the Nitrogen Tetroxide (NTO) and Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine (UDMH) when they were delivered for loading into the satellite.
I tankered also Argon, Nitrogen, CO2, Hydrogen, Helium, Anhydrous Ammonia. I didn’t deliver that nasty stuff… and am glad.
Worked with that nasty stuff in Minuteman II and III missiles. Hypergolic, highly poisonous… what’s not to like about ’em??
;P
Is that wasp non binary?
Was offered a job at airgas, after I lost my job. Entry level and passed on it. Enjoying life everyday since then.
Thanks. That was nice.
Always good to be able to place a face with a name.
None of these photos are of me… I used pics off the interweb. Sorry to burst your bubble. Phil posted back in late July or August a picture of me and him doing a old fart selfie if you want to gander a look at what I yam. Not a flattering picture, but then again I am not flattering.
My bad. The picture of you working on an Indian subcontinent hay and cattle farm should have been a tipoff. Duh.
The FBI has plenty of pics of Cederq if anyone is curious what he looks like.
I picked that one to see who would catch it, and you did… I do that a lot, put easter eggs in my series to see who is paying attention.
Does that include getting drunk on a USN ship off Western Australia? As Yank Navy ships are ostensibly dry, it means that grog was smuggled aboard or you got stuck into medical alcohol.
A serious breach of military discipline there, did you arrest yourself to maintain order?
He forgot his full time hobby as a shit disturber…..
And he is definitely disturbing.
I was gonna call you and see how you are doing, now I am gonna call and razz you.
Razz, not raze. Don’t want to be a word Nazi, but there you are.
You’re welcome.
I fixed it…
Thanks, I resemble that…
Retired or retarded? If you are both, then you won’t have to remember which one you are. Simplifies life.
Have fun!
Like an International diesel- a twelve-letter shit spreader
That is quite a resume. Farming – law enforcement (military) – healthcare – long distance trucking – retirement. A lot of knowledge crammed into a lifetime. Cool ! Pleased to meet you.
Well that sure beats my life as a construction cleanup guy and part time McD’s french fry maker.
You drove LOX tankers? Do you clank when you walk??
Yup, all over Western Washington and especially Seattle to Boeing, Microsoft, The hospitals and out to the sub base and out to San Juan Islands. In Alabama I went to Birmingham and Atlanta… White boy driving a tanker in those towns, I had my doors locked and my tire thumper close by. I always said, if the tank got ruptured they would name the crater after me…
We used to get 8~10 tanker loads of LOX delivered at Sea Launch before we headed out on a launch. I had safety courses in LOX handling, and things can get out of hand quickly with a spill.
Very quickly drjim, one liquid you didn’t make mistakes or wander your focus. I actually sprayed two fellows with my CO2 extinguisher because they were smoking within 25 feet and would not put them out or heed my warnings and I didn’t take too kindly to being accelerated…
At first I thought you said you had sprayed ’em with LOX!
Would’a served ’em right, too!
Wasn’t worth the paperwork, no doubt!
Igor, you deliver LOX in a 4″ coupled and sealed reinforced hose and you have maintain a certain internal tank pressure and hose pressure and you can’t spray and maintain that pressure, you think about though… one thing about LOX is it is the prettiest, intense blue color when you drain the hose after uncoupling and spill out residual.
Yep, it sure is a pretty color. The only things we treated with more caution were the Nitrogen Tetroxide (NTO) and Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine (UDMH) when they were delivered for loading into the satellite.
I tankered also Argon, Nitrogen, CO2, Hydrogen, Helium, Anhydrous Ammonia. I didn’t deliver that nasty stuff… and am glad.
Worked with that nasty stuff in Minuteman II and III missiles. Hypergolic, highly poisonous… what’s not to like about ’em??
;P
Is that wasp non binary?
Was offered a job at airgas, after I lost my job. Entry level and passed on it. Enjoying life everyday since then.