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Train Time: #23
Today we are going to get technical. Actually, this is a rant about technical things… but that still makes it technical. I work in an industry that uses a lot of software: expensive software. The target for today, is Bentley. Not be car maker, but the purveyor of engineering software. To the wrong crowd, this company means very little. However, to engineers, architects, and other technical people, this is their entire professional world. This software is the replacement for drafting pencils, and protractors; ink pens and electric erasers; and a whole collection of engineering gadgets and do-dads that engineers used to use to do things by hand. It is, without…
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Train Time: # 22
Today, it’s the 4:35, bound for Homewood. And… Today it’s the “F” word… Again… And no, it’s not sexual… It’s rated “G” for… Thank God it works… Yes, we are discussing “faith”. It’s nothing new to hear me say: “Faith is easy when you don’t need it, and sometimes seems impossible when you do”. Look… let’s start by prefacing this article with the following statement: I am a religious person. But I don’t spend a lot of time spouting off to the world about God, and how blessed I am, and trying to convert the world to my way of thinking. If you ask me, I won’t lie, but beyond…
