cat
loves me
more
got
your
nose
I got
your
nose
of your
giggles!
Give me
all of your
cookies!
Now!
pithy
this way
comes
Fuck
that
noise
want to
know
what I
think about
TACO
Dead
Yet?
all the stickies
on Grovelbot's
Big Board!
I made funeral arrangements for my dad today.
I can't remember if it was germane to anything but at some point, I told his pastor that sometimes you have to decide if really believe the incredible stuff you say you do. My father did and so do I.

2naSalit
(97,575 posts)Hard task.
TomSlick
(12,663 posts)I was mainly there to hold her hand.
2naSalit
(97,575 posts)Not be alone for that, it's hard to get through.
Irish_Dem
(73,290 posts)Sorry to hear this.
Your dad must have been a fine man.
TomSlick
(12,663 posts)With a high school education from a little town in Arkansas, he and a unschooled mechanical wiz co-worker, designed and created a new system for casting molten aluminum. Dad was the metallurgist and Clarence could fix a rainy day. The two of them then traveled the world trouble-shooting plants with the system.
The old-timers at the plant told me he knew the temperature of molten aluminum within 10 degrees by the color.
He raised two sons, adored three grandsons, and four great grandchildren.
Irish_Dem
(73,290 posts)To invent a whole new manufacturing system with a high school education.
He was very very bright and entirely self educated.
A self taught genius.
And he was a decent and loving man on top of it all.
I have a feeling he was extremely proud of you and your career.
All the grands.
TomSlick
(12,663 posts)He had too many run-ins with "college boy" engineers who tried to tell him how to operate the system he had built. They were usually silenced when they learned dad and Clarence had designed the thing.
He made an exception - usually - for his sons, DILs, grandsons and grand DILS.
Then again, I still hear him saying to me "Boy, if you're so damned smart, why ain't you rich?"
Irish_Dem
(73,290 posts)The engineers with fancy engineering degrees lecture two men they think are bumpkins
about the machine. Then they find out the "bumpkins" are the geniuses who built the entire system
with their bare hands from the ground up, piece by piece. I'd love to see the look on the
engineers' faces.
I don't care what your dad said about education, his children becoming educated and equal to the college
boys must have felt good on some level.
Well he must have raised you to not put greed before everything else. He did a good job.
He sounds like a character and quite a man.