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drumstick diva said:
From my childhood days remember Ronald Reagan and his 20 mule team for Borax.

I guess with inflation it would be a 40 mule team now.
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They used twenty mules because they had two Wagons and one Water wagon for a total load of 77 thousand pounds... eleven days out to deliver Nine days back to return... They trained the mules to pull at an angle around the switch backs from the mine. Then to jump the chain back around.... All controlled by a single jerk line and a couple of out riders...

Its an amazing thing to watch. Mules are Smart very trainable but care has to be taken to not "abuse" them. Because they remember...

Right now I am Watching Sparrows hitch being hooked up... 40 Belgian Drafts... He was or is living history with regards to draft horse teams...

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rjohns39 said:
Going to make today a short day and try not to think about what the next few weeks will bring. Yesterday, the CIO announced a major organizational change. It doesn't effect me or my position but will quadruple my work load for the end of the year.
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What do you do? I hope they quadruple your salary ....

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Finished the video... It took two Drivers to handle the team.... and one helper to help keep the lines from tangling.... Each man was driving one set of twenty horses so that means ten lines each... Crazy

I have never driven a team... I have done tandem only once... Ride one and drive the other... no wagon. That was more than complicated enough for me...

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rjohns39 said:
I'm a financial data analyst and I do some IT development work.
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wow.... thats why you can work from home... Its almost a necessity... I used to do some engineering data organization and support... but I really didnt know all the ins and outs. using an Oracle Database tansfering some of the output to SAP data organization.

It was during an Iso9001 conversion... All the While doing engineering changes to make the product pass ROHS requirements for Europe. Removing as much lead from manufacture as feasable...

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perchie.girl said:
wow.... thats why you can work from home... Its almost a necessity... I used to do some engineering data organization and support... but I really didnt know all the ins and outs. using an Oracle Database tansfering some of the output to SAP data organization.

It was during an Iso9001 conversion... All the While doing engineering changes to make the product pass ROHS requirements for Europe. Removing as much lead from manufacture as feasable...

deb
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I'm currently learning a new tool for developing Oracle queries. :) I started out my IT career as a data guy. Went back and forth between data design/development and coding, tossed in a little network admin work and then got pulled into program control/finance. Then moved into the PM role and stayed there for a very long time. Don't want those headaches anymore so happy where I am.
 
I had to write and implement enginerring change orders into oracle... Quite the process. I downloaded the data to text and trasferred it to Excel where I manipulated it and put it back in... got pretty good at it too. ONe change order had over three hundred changes that filtered through about forty different design configurations... Took me 8 hours when I got it through check I submitted it to the engineer and he was floored.

"Did you write an algorithm to do this... "
"No"
"How did you do this so fast"
"Excel"

He had sent it off to me because he didnt have the estimated three weeks to do it. LOL. Some engineers are just not Lateral thinkers.

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rjohns39 said:
I'm currently learning a new tool for developing Oracle queries. :) I started out my IT career as a data guy. Went back and forth between data design/development and coding, tossed in a little network admin work and then got pulled into program control/finance. Then moved into the PM role and stayed there for a very long time. Don't want those headaches anymore so happy where I am.
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Oracle is a heavy in the Data base management systems... When I worked for qualcomm we used it as well. Some people there had two computer systems... Dos based and Apple.... Dos is what Windows operates from originally, or Microsoft.

Back before Dos and Windows were integrated I was pretty good at writing batch files for swapping out windows in order to run Autocad. At the time Autocad didnt like sharing page space with ANY software. I had a hot key reboot that swapped the Boot file before turning the computer off then back on. The switches needed to be changed in order for Autocad to run.

My programming favorite in highschool was Fortran... It had logic statements that were very math based. I get math... I hated RPG and Basic. Though Basic was a bit easier.

ONce Windows became the main player I stopped programming my little Chit all together... I leave that stuff to the pros.

Though I still have Solid Works and Autocad hanging around here on disk somewhere. I miss desiging alot sometimes. Injection molding and Sheet metal and Wiring harnesses were my three main areas of design. Though I have designed circuit cards for pick and place manufacture. Not the circuits but the mechanical interfaces for the circuit cards... ONce that was done it was up to the circuit card designers to design around my stuff.

Gawd the memories.

deb
 

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