Christy and Eve

This is my wife's daughter, Christy (left) and my daughter Eve (right). Christy was only 4 when Penny and I were married.  Eve was 6.  Bill was 5. (my guitar hero).  This was Thanksgiving 2002. Christy passed away a few years ago with MS.

AutoCad

Someone asked how I constructed the drawings.

I began using AutoCad in my work the middle '80s, and became proficient with it by taking classes at our local community college.   By the 90's the college needed an engineer to teach CAD to engineers, so I was asked to teach special engineering Cad classes.  So for 5 years I taught Civil Engineering AutoCad and 3D modeling in my spare time.  I loved teaching, and I loved everyone of my students.

I want to tell my favorite student story.  I had a student that was completely lost with PC. The first night of class he could not do a single one of the eight very simple drawings.  I stopped the class to help him.  He was holding the mouse with the cord toward him.   After a while he finished the drawing long after the class was over.

He kept coming to class, but was struggling.  He was the hardest worker, but could only manage a C.  At midterm he stopped coming to class.  Just before the semester was over I saw him at the student union building and went to talk.   I asked him why he quite.  I told him that I was sure he could have passed, he was hard worker.

He told me he had to quit, because he got a full time job at one of our local industries, and had to work during my class.  But, he said, he was very thankful that I spent so much time helping him.

I what he was doing at his new job.  He said, "Believe it or not, he put in for a Cad job, with about 6 other guys, and the company tested them on Cad to find the person they would make head of the department... and he beat all the other easily.  A couple others were hired also for the Cad department, and he began to teach them AutoCad..

I had such a fun time telling the rest of the class.