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Dave Ingram
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I was sitting in a meeting room at the Holiday Inn in Charleston, WV, sweating out the second day of the exam. Later that same year I would take the VA exam. Passed them both on the first try.

And May 16 must be a real good day because 46 years ago today I met my wife for the first time. Believe it or not we were a computerized date.

It's been a fun ride! And the best is yet to come.


 
Posted : May 16, 2015 6:48 am
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Dave

Have your wife read what you wrote then report back. She could read it differently than what you meant.


 
Posted : May 16, 2015 7:55 am
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Interesting that you would pick that exact day.

I will never forget it. May 16, 1975 was a Friday. I spent the late afternoon/early evening in the University football stadium attending my graduation exercises. Free! Free at last! Sixteen years of school behind me and a bright future ahead of me.


 
Posted : May 16, 2015 7:59 am
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I know that sometimes I'm a little slow, but ....

I've reread & reread my post and just don't see your point. Can you enlighten me or is it just too low down?


 
Posted : May 16, 2015 8:59 am
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I know that sometimes I'm a little slow, but ....

"I met my wife for the first time. Believe it or not we were a computerized date.........It's been a fun ride!" (I was reading it that SHE was the fun ride. Not a polite way to put it.) Sorry! Bad boys sometimes think badly.


 
Posted : May 16, 2015 2:35 pm

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I know that sometimes I'm a little slow, but ....

OK, now I get it. My mind is also frequently in the gutter, but I missed that one.


 
Posted : May 16, 2015 4:27 pm
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> Interesting that you would pick that exact day.
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> I will never forget it. May 16, 1975 was a Friday. I spent the late afternoon/early evening in the University football stadium attending my graduation exercises. Free! Free at last! Sixteen years of school behind me and a bright future ahead of me.

Don't remember that precise day. but that was about the time I first made PC, while working for B&R on the Exxon Fuels Expansion Project in their refinery in Baytown, TX.

B-)


 
Posted : May 19, 2015 1:58 pm
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I was there too (almost). I was with B&R in Pasadena at the Petrolyte plant and at the Goodpasture ship dock in the ship channel (across from the ARCO plant).

Andy


 
Posted : May 19, 2015 3:29 pm
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How about that?

I was all over the Houston area from June 18-22,1975 while visiting two fellow graduates from a month earlier. One was employed by Exxon and the other was looking for a job. He decided if his wife was moving to Houston to work for Exxon maybe he should go with her. About a year later they moved to Baytown and we traveled there to visit. First time I ever rode on a ferry. The Zoo in Houston was fantastic.


 
Posted : May 20, 2015 9:21 am
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> I was there too (almost). I was with B&R in Pasadena at the Petrolyte plant and at the Goodpasture ship dock in the ship channel (across from the ARCO plant).
>
> Andy

That was also about the time I moved from apartments in Baytown to some in Pasadena on Richey St.


 
Posted : May 20, 2015 11:01 am

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How about that?

Seems like we have been in close proximity at different times.


 
Posted : May 20, 2015 11:02 am
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I lived in an apartment complex just off Red Bluff not too far south of Gilley's (well before Midnight Cowboy).

Andy


 
Posted : May 20, 2015 11:05 am