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Heidi and her Mother and Me Heidi 1983 D on't ask me why, but I've always been considered trustworthy, at least by those who don't know me well. In my employment ventures I was almost always the one they put in charge when the boss was gone. I was the one who the big boss would pick out to do a special job when one needed doing. For example: I had a summer job at E.J. Korvette where they made me the acting manager of the Toy Department when the manager left. I was a teenager and they had other permanent employees working in the department. They are no longer in business but I like to think that wasn't because of me. Another example: I worked as a delivery guy for a lighting and lamp parts warehouse. When the owner who ran the warehouse went in for an operation I was asked to take over managing the warehouse while he was gone even though there were 3 full time warehouse workers. I do have to admit that I wasn't looked on quite so favorably by my bosses in ...

1984: Back to San Francisco with a New Job, and More SF: Looking down Market Street from Twin Peaks I t's 1984. 1984 of course is the title of George Orwell's sci-fi classic, a literary rebellion against “Big Brother”. '84 is the year Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman to run on a presidential ticket in the US but the Reagan/Bush ticket easily won the election. It was also the year of the Orwellian Macintosh Super Bowl commercial that sort of opened the door for the Super Bowl commercials craze that's still with us today. Other items of note: Alex Trebek debuted on Jeopardy, Hong Kong returned to China, and Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father when Marvin attempted to intervene in a fight between his parents. I am not a person who gets bored easily but I am also a person who likes change, especially when it comes to things like where I live and work. I don't know why that is. As 1984 came around I was about to turn 35. I'd had 2 marriage...

1983 – Goodbye... 1983 was the year of the 2 nd US Festival but it was more than that. How much more? Well let me think... That year the final episode of the popular TV show M*A*S*H was aired, all 2&1/2 hours of it. The Senate created a new National Holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear (some might say it feels like it's gone again...). I was living in an apartment complex in Cupertino. That complex backed up to the Tymshare building where I worked. It was faster to walk to work than it was to drive my car from the apartment parking lot to the Tymshare parking lot. To get to work I literally walked out the back gate of the complex grounds that opened into the Tymshare parking lot. I could go from my apartment to my cubicle on the second floor of the Tymshare building in less than 5 minutes. I could, and did, go home for lunch frequently. I liked my Tymshare job, I liked my boss, and I had made a number of...