Pat Riot

I always admired my bosses that didn’t beat around the bush. I managed my rail shops the same way. No BS and no PC BS.

As I entered my gun room to get my digital caliper to measure something on my Kawasaki and my mind wandered and I remembered my old Yamaha Seca 550 and how much fun that was to ride then I remembered the time I nearly froze to death on it riding in the rain. Man, was I cold and that reminded me of riding my old Kawasaki Vulcan in 16° weather in Oregon to go to work. Invigorating! At this point I realized that I may need a new leather jacket this coming Fall so I can ride my Kawasaki in the cooler weather and then I realized I was looking forward to pumpkin spice season. I love pumpkin spice. Walmart now has a pumpkin spice coffee creamer. Maybe my wife would like that. She likes creamer in her coffee. As I stood in the doorway I wondered what I came in there for… I went to the kitchen and wrote pumpkin spice creamer on the grocery list then headed out to the garage and realized I forgot my digital caliper. I came back into the house and my wife said “Why is there pumpkin spice creamer on the grocery list? I don’t like that.” Then we discussed other creamer flavors and I decided to get back to work so I headed out to the garage…

I learned to use a slide rule in High School, but rarely used one. When I joined the Navy in ‘79 I bought a Texas Instruments calculator for BE/E school - Basic Electricity / Electronics. I cannot remember the model number of that calculator. Some time in the late 90’s a co-worker gave me a slide rule that if it had not had instructions for its use on the back of it I wouldn’t have remembered how to use it. 😂 I will break it out later and take a photo of it yo post one here.

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