I am grateful and thankful for all the effort of the Six Corners Association members and staff into making The Six Corners better for all of us. A special thank you to Kenji for caring for the family living in The Parklet as well as for introducing me to EveryBlock and the 6CA.
Before physically heading back to Houston I had some banners and a rake to return to Kelli. When I did she asked if I could have coffee before I left. Our association Pres was there. He drives the building housing the bistro that is currently reimagining itself. On Tuesday he could join us.
So Tuesday came quickly and after another meeting a friend and I headed to City News Cafe for some chilli. As we finished the two I expected and several others wandered in to join us.
Moving and removing stuff and moving in our stuff has kept me busy and so I have also misplaced Gale’s card but will try to get links here for those who came and I am appreciative of you taking time from your businesses to see me off. Give me any other link you would like folks to know about and I hope to do blog post for each of you as well as those who could not be there. Hopefully this fuzzy head remembers well.
Kelli Our fearless leader
Gale Historian and President
Marc The tireless KleeRer of snow
Joe A Purveyor and visionary of News
Joe O Our Music Man that makes us dance
Jeff A Man of many faces
Mansfield Video’s Mr. Nice Guy
Syd Artist in residence
And so a new chapter begins in which my Six Corners presence is in the clouds. Beyond that though as much as I enjoyed this send off I am reminded of how the work of the many is often done by the few. Of course my vision for Six Corners is foreign as I am a foreigner from the country of Texas and Tech. Look forward to seeing you all soon. Now to me that means there will be Big Belly Solar and Wifi units with public wifi access and a lot of ibeacons, flat screens and maybe a few robots running around. I also look forward to seeing how the Six Corners pedestrian safety project moves forward.
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So how does an old guy who loves Python open source programming write a bio? Very few people still living ever bread boarded a program so maybe we do not start there. Some folks may have seen an 028 or an 029 keypunch machine. Still ancient history. I guess this is where I put in that I tried Pre Vet Med at Texas A & M. I found out that I was not that smart. I hitch hiked to Puget Sound. Bought into and worked in a plywood mill. Joined the Air Force then later back to Houston. Knocked around as a cowboy in hippy land for a bit. A friend said "Randy, you ain't no dummy." So I went back to school at the University of Houston. I took hours there and elsewhere from about ten universities in whatever interested me. Those ranged from drama with the same docs who taught Randy and Dennis Quaid to theoretical mathematics. I settled in the Computer Science Department. I continue to be lifelong learner.
Maybe we start with my being 547 pounds from the problems sleeping an N24 schedule come with. Needing to be trained in using the RTA systems which include the CTA systems. The trainers not asking me if I was claustrophobic before putting me on a train that goes into a tunnel.
Perhaps we move on to having gastric bypass surgery, losing a lot of weight and moving to Chicago proper from Schaumburg where Caffeinated Connections was one of my favorite things. There I had spent five of my ten years repairing mobility devices as a field service rep for a major in that field.
We moved to where there is an official taxing and shopping district known as The Six Corners. There I needed to help my wife and her bad knees find ways to work that involved as few stairs as possible. That led to an understanding of the lack of information easily available for where and when there are working elevators or escalators. So trying to solve this led to an open source project to make travel and job search information easily available and first virtually then in RL for friends I have met along the way of many differing abilities so different perceptions of what accessible means.
So the plan is to try to find places and folks of interest locally and in that open government hacking areas and write blog post about them. Loving the intersection of 2nd Life and RL this will hopefully lead to our own Caffeinated Connections over by here.
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