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I used to use an IBM 029 key punch machine to spit out eighty-column cards containing lines of RPG code. After a year, I was promoted to Eighty-Column Card Penciler: I penciled consecutive numbers onto the top-right corners of the cards in a deck containing a computer program. That way, if someone dropped and scattered them, they'd be able to put the cards back into the correct order.

So as you can see, we've both had distinguished careers in IT. But I'll concede your's the more distinguished of the two.

Kidding aside, as we'd say here in Up North Michigan, you've been around the block a few times. Furthermore, I imagine from your experiences that you're methodical, thorough, detail-oriented, process-driven, can keep a dozen balls in the air at once, and can keep your wits while under stress. We could have used you in the control tower. But then you'd have had to deal with pilots where you tell them "Cessna 69561, turn left twenty degrees...[watch aircraft's course on radar]...Negative 561, your other left."

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Miss Catherine La Grange, spinster
Miss Catherine La Grange, spinster

Written by Miss Catherine La Grange, spinster

Retired high school social studies teacher in Michigan’s Up North. I’m a Presbyterian spinster, but I’m no Angel.

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