[Magdalen] Le Jour de L'Armistice.

[Allan Carr]

I retired in 2001 at age 70. The last almost 20 years have gone by at lightening speed. In less than 2 months, I’ll be 89.

I recently learned that I have a certain notoriety as the oldest person in Southern California to successfully take peritoneal dialysis (PD) training and move exclusively to PD. I’m apparently used as a motivational.example to others for PD.

Every so often when I forget a word, I begin worrying about senility. However, on a pop quiz taken last week a few months after graduation from PD training, I scored higher than anyone else
In our area. I was really gratified by this, since I actually was quite worried,

But today while standing actually holding on to a walker, I lost my balance and fell backwards into our brick chimney, which had enough edges to give me a number of black and blue marks and one near an elbow that bled. I also hit my head on the chimney but as usual, it bounced.

I was very lucky, TBTG.

Allan Carr


> On Nov 11, 2019, at 12:41 AM, Allan Carr <allanc5 at me.com> wrote:
> 
> 65 years and five months ago I was separated from the US Army. I went to New York City vaguely thinking about finding a job. One day I was riding on the subway looking at want ads and saw a Remington Rand Univac ad looking for field service technicians, The address was a few stops down the line I was on, so I got off and applied using my army experience as a radar tech (with an instructor’s MOS) as qualification and got the job, after some training. My two caveats were that I would be sent to a city with a decent University and only work shifts other than the day shift.
> 
> So I was sent to US Steel as one of four techs with a supervisor maintaining a Univac 1 vacuum tube computer, which took thousands of feet of floor space. A year later,  I also started as a day student at Carnegie Tech (later Carnegie Mellon) for a BSEE.
> 
> So, serendipitously, I started maintaining and repairing a large computer. A few years later with my degree,  I took a job in R&D at another computer company, but eventually drifted into R&D on magnetic recording computer peripherals where I stayed for 44 years until 2001.
> 
> In 2019, not surprisingly, my iMac personal computer has a solid state memory.
> 
> Allan Carr
> 
> 
>> On Nov 10, 2019, at 12:41 PM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>> 51 years ago tomorrow (November 11, 2019), I was in France
>>