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El Dorado County Me and Kris on the backyard deck at our  house in Rocklin K ris and I were married and had moved to Rocklin. Being computer programmers we figured our best hope for employment was up in Placer County as there was a semiconductor manufacturing company up there as well as Hewlett Packard. Consilium, where we had been working in Silicon Valley, was a software company whose product was the leading semiconductor manufacturing software on the market. It turned out neither of the hi-tech companies in Placer were interested in us. We ended up getting jobs elsewhere, Kris with the IT department of the Sacramento Bee downtown, and me with the IT department at El Dorado County located in Placerville. The result was we both had commutes but in different directions. (Placerville is not in Placer Country and Yuba City is not in Yuba County. What happened there?) A t El Dorado County I was hired into a programmer analyst position. The county was my first experi...

Hazing, What is it good for? - The Fraternity Blues I never understood the practice of hazing. Hazing is, at least to me, an archaic practice of servitude where one is oppressed and tormented by someone or someones as a sort of initiation into a group or club. This was a rather common practice back in the middle and probably even later part of the 20 th century. The practice of hazing has a long history evidently going back to at least 387 B.C., with the founding of Plato’s Academy. I, myself have been briefly subjected to hazing a couple of times. I also kinda feel basic training in our military is actually a kind of hazing as well so that would increase my experiences to 3. I am not a fan. I resisted the non-military instances and just put up with it in basic training understanding that resistance had unwanted consequences. My first experience with hazing was when I was sent off to college in the fall of 1967. Freshman hazing was still “a thing” at that time. A...