2019-20 Game 21: Avalanche at Oilers

OriginalPouzar: Post of the year!

Ditto!

leadfarmer:
rickithebear

I don’t think that means what you think it means
People in other countries are no less evolved than people in other countries

I’m curious Mr Bear what is your level of education?

Verbal interaction with the leading aerospace minds of the 20th century.
-My dad,
Avro arrow, Apollo, hawk ( first self guided Sam), Landsat, Seasat,
magnetic guided nuclear powered rockets w/ S. Suzuki
Excocet (w/ French government)
Commisioning Mag lev train.
Design, construction, commission advanced satelite programs for most western countries: India, Korea, Japan, leading South American countries: Argentina ( their during Falkland war), Middle East countries when they were considered friends, Saudi, Iran,
-The European space agency committee field review of Canadian operation.
When they offered him head of ESA satelite division in civittavechia, Italy.
-dicky do: man I am named after ( inventor of black box)
– S. Suzuki: magnetic guided nuclear powered rockets,
– Gerald Bull: his ballistic ideas just blew my mind at 8 yr old.
And so on.

As a young child:
On farm in Rocky: age 5-8
Following tractor Picking rocks off edge of lower quarter near meeting of 2 creeks.
Other farm, garden help

Age 9-12
Running winter trap line
Splitting birch for hours and weeks during summer.
Once a month cleaning industrial chicken farms, shovel shit and run electric defeather
Mixing fine mud for brick layers half a summer.
Feeding a blown isolation machine (12) (fibreglass & Cellulose) Sask housing on northern reserves.
Full day during no summer fly and 30+ celcius in box truck.

Age 13-14
Building our 2 storey 2100 sq ft per floor house from scratch every night after school summer and weekends for 2 yrs.

Age 13:
During off school days.
Neighbors wife coming over in a bikini teaching me what picking berries really meant.
Later her friends would also help pick berries.
Lesson – those who do not talk get.

Age 14:
Worked as fry and burger cook at A&W drive -in.
Sunday’s after treaty cheque, I got to chase the drunk First Nation people out of the dumpster with a shovel.
Age 15:
Worked summer in housing construction

Went uni at 15 turned 16 that fall
2 years of public admin at age 16 & 17, thru business school UofS.
Member of 4 parties: NDP, Liberal, PC, Rhino
Nothing worse than forming an opinion bout something without knowing doctrine and process.
Proffesor Courtney was an influence.

Age 18
House construction, insulation, Asbestos removal thru Ontario painters union
Age 19-20
joined federated Co-op 3rd yr mechanic training
Age 21-22
Assistant station Manager PA cop gas station.
Age 23
Offered position in federated coop Regional director training.
Thought with my dick.

Went to uni with girlfriend long time friend.
1st 2 yr of chem
3rd yr she got in speech path in Minot.
Classes and labs mon. To wed. Drove 8 HR to Minot wed night and 8 hr back sun evening.
Learned you do not piss on side of road next to a missle silo at night.
Cause a suburban pulls up and machine guns get pointed at you.
Volunteered for tests at speech path program.
Girlfriend did not tell me the results
Tested out at grade 24 math and all sciences.
But clear disability markers.
It was at that point said distant sucks.
4 th yr of Chem had decifded I had been doing that for her.
Did not finish degree.
Biggest influences were
Prof Kassidy who let me be involved in his Thin Column GC development.
And
Slavic Proph ( cannot remember his name) who was developing computer modeling of lab work (1987-88)

Age 26/27 Left and started millwork construction company, multiple retail builds in Banff.
Retail builds across North America with Vendtech. Building video game, pool hall/ dance floor restaurants/ bars in prime locations. Eatons Center and other prime Retail locals across North American urban centers.
Got to sit at old HI inn with a older man who wanted us to do a kitchen For him.
My Buisness partner ( uncle) was one of the origional employees of his industrial trailer company.
Ron southern Wanted his kitchen done in Iron Wood.
Fuck me!

The vendtech job came to us cause most people named Taylor were of Slavic Jewish heritage.

It was during this time I found out my Uncle was a swinger and had 8g’ ft x 16ft bed in his bedroom.
That Monday nights was Karaoke night (with close friends of his from the swingers club.) with uni girls who worked in escort service.

Most saw the job to an intellectual choice to an education means.

We lost all our work in the South Chinook community cause my uncle fucked the bosses wife.
I realized she was unhappy and a piece of her husbands collection.
The Ferrari, jaguar, Harley, horseshoe shaped house in the exclusive area of Calgary.
Pictures of his model wife on cover of Cosmo.

Moved back to PA.
Started seasonal as a janitor at cleaning outhouses, and tent shack ( really 2 bed loft mini homes) + camp ground shower houses.

Worked seasonal for 2 yr on road crew.
The 2nd year I saw the most unnerving thing since chasing drunks from the A&W garbage.
We were continuing to put up fence for the new garbage dump hole.
Parents were laying next to a car drunk. A young kid jump and squeezed.
He had a Fried chicken drum stick from the ground and started chewing on it.

Then 1 yr back country crew.

It was at that point I accepted a chance to give up my job To a First Nation person from a local reserve.
//I remember from my Coop days the Halkett family from Montreal lake band.
The husband and wife worked for Weyerhaeuser Pulp & Paper.
Every two weeks they would drive in with 2 vans full of kids.
Take then to Sally Ann to get them clean clothes that fit, buy canned goods ( that the parents could not sell for booze or drugs), make sure they had a can opener.
Would come to the gas station were we had free coffee//

Adam bird (A parks garbage man) he was the Montreal lake band medicine man I would hang out with some times, told me one of the halkett boys helped with the tradition.
And was allways sober.

I gave up my job to him.
Accepted the offer to be put on UI for the 2 yr while going to school if I paid my tuition and books.

Granted as the Canada Scohlar in Eng design and drafting.
Worked for many years.
– told Smokey river Coal the calculated conveyor feed rates were incorrect.
– worked for National Oilwell Dre o we Arden knoll, taught me kremco rigs, jay thiesden taught me offshore drilling design,
My Clients were Aramco, Duetag, Petrosbra, Gulf, Bonaire, Nanhai, Final ones were Gasprom. We’re I was to move to London.
Mom got brain cancer and I left.
– worked for Trans Alta for 3 yr. we’re I meet Dave Forrter who invented using building structural steel to create Crains and transfer rail systems.
– accepted a job with SNC lavalin that was to be a 7 yr on NAT Gas storage systems in Fort sask area.
Sat in the meeting were Cesar Ortega first presented the concept of modular construction. Lavalin thought they could push the limits of contract.( use to Que) they were punted.
– took a 2 day job with ese engineering. He showed me some drawings and specs.
Said he had 2 days of drafting. I looked at specs of equipment and realized they were done in India and had been spec for non winter environment. I was the 6 person brought in and first to tell him this was at least a years work.
– when the job was done I went to Colt. Was suppose to head up as build team on Rainbow lake project.
While I was their I got transferred to Instrumentation group reviewing all tech errors on? The fort Sask underground gas storage project.
I also found a whole section on new standards for Colt that were not implemented.
Their was a huge event for Colt that was going to create a new standard.
The new head of construction division Dave Forter had seen me walking around.
He asked to see me and wanted talk about what I had seen here so far.
All I did was go to a computer and show an existing standard that had been developed recently and lost in colts constant reorg
He laughed.
– During this time Emad from ESE Approached me cause the companies heard we predicted the huge fire at Albion Sands.
They wanted us to set up a company that would be independent set of eyes for all sub eng projects.
Look at design standards, aa build tie-ins, recommend weld, electrical standards, that lower end cost staff could be certified to do.
Spent 6 months while at Colt building the presentation.
Fort Mac companies accepted it.
But ESE had also bid on the 10 yr of school bids with margins that were 50% higher than industrial.
He took the school bids.

It was at this time I took the maternity and moved to ST. John NB.
My wife was overseeing staffing for all old navy’s in Maritimes, Maine & Vermont.

We spent 6 months their.
Took a 6 week drafting job in Hanna with Atco to get back in AB.

Completed the job in 3 weeks and they asked me to do some other in house drafting.
Their was a meeting of all the site managers of combined Atco/ trans Alta sites.
I was pouring some coffee, when some one said “Rick” and slapped me on the back.
Gary Woods who I helped chase data for setting up boiler inspection program at Trans Alta Wab lake assets was now Transalta head of combined assets.

Gary looked at all the managers and said.
“ you guys are lucky to have the best technical mind I know working for you, don’t loose this guy you will miss him”
The manager of sheerness came over to me and said can I have your full resume.
Eng Mgr got it at morning break.
Plant manager Came to me at afternoon coffee.
HR in Calgary/ and the Assc. Is willing to create a new position with top scale so we can higher you.
You will have to finish the contract.
I was employed officially on April 20, 2005, one month in my wife met a guy on internet and left.
Atco gave all the time needed to get settled.
I have been the A’s- builder, 3D groundscape engineer, data chase and confirmed, emergency technical provider for design, maintenance, operation of equipment.
– pride and joy.
Having 20 min to decide if a small cased crusher Moyer sitting in a motor plant in N. Car could fit in our failed Run of Mine crusher.
The held the needed plant employees and ran them Overtime for the weekend. Double shift.
Had the rom in place less than 4 days.
– vfD were installed based on breakout power needed indicated on the design spec. The reduction in break out power loss from VFD did not drop it to a non breakout situation.
Having worked conveyors I knew their was a breakout spec indicated by conveyor company.
They did not install a motor with their breakout standard. 100 hp short.
With VFD installed motors did not meet breakout.
– company was going to spend up to a million to pay a company to identify to Coal side of Plant they could abandon.
My former eng boss who was now head of generation told the group to give me a couple days to see what I could come up with.
I was Able to find all 3D const models for steel, coal side, and dust pass trunmodels.
All models, site plans, gen Assam, with all removals hatched, an drawings, calculated weights for parts, assemblies and groups for pound costing, origional install costs in less than 24 hrs.

This is what I call learning.

When some idiot comes to me with white privaledge.

I look at them and say, “ have you ever shoved shit out of failed outhouse.”
When they say “ No”
I say “ shut the fuck up you Privelaged prick”