A few weeks ago writing here in my blog I decided that 4/1/1990 must have been the date that Ketterman's started those maintenance contracts for the computer system at First Federal Savings and Loan in Greenville South Carolina.
The way I consciously remember that is the first job I had after my US Navy enlistment expired.
In my journal I can recall writing several times about how that contract was lost by Ketterman's, by then owned and merged into ISA-ISS, and was instead awarded to Universal Financial Products, out of the Chicago-suburb Elmhurst.
I wrote also several times that I was not in Greenville at the start of that contract because I had moved away to Memphis to work there at the ISA-ISS office that was also formerly a branch office of Dallas-based Ketterman's.
I wrote also that the original Ketterman's contract with First Federal lasted a total period of 2 years.
So that would mean UFP took over the contract on 4/1/1992.
I wrote also in my journal that I worked in Memphis for 6 weeks before I moved back to Greenville after accepting the employment offer UFP had originally extended to me after they were awarded the contract by First Federal.
Last night as I was trying to fall asleep I started examining consciously my memory of that time period. I don't recall thinking consciously really about matching the details in my mind with the fantasy I have concocted about my imagined and incredible activities of that same time period. I have thought over many times those details but I don't think until last night I really tried matching up the two different sets.
I also had a renewed sense of confidence that Kerry Burgess 2005 had full awareness of memory of those incredible activities I now theorize about here.
I often wonder why I have no conscious memory of those incredible activities in the 1990s. I can recall specific dates and activities for those dates and maybe a few glimmers of memory but I cannot recall specific details the way I can about the boring activities of that same time period. I don't think those memories are gone. But I don't understand why I exist the way I exist today. I still believe there is some kind of larger purpose to it all. Something very serious that none of you dullards take seriously.
I can recall some details about working for that company in Memphis during that six week period of time. We mostly went to a hospital there in downtown Memphis. St. Jude's I think that was. I know I've written about it before in my journal. I have also had the unmistakable sense of certainly that Phoebe worked there at some point and that was why I was there. Maybe she interned there as a medical doctor, I have wondered.
I remember being very bored. I think what struck me last night as the most interesting memory, and I have written before about this, but never really thinking about the larger context I have established here in my journal, is my memory of my final day at that Memphis office. I can recall how I went back through the process of getting that UFP job in Greenville. I flew back to visit Tracie for a weekend. I went to the First Federal main office building to - presumably to visit friends. Can't recall precisely how that started off. Did I just drive there - can't recall the car I was driving. Did I rent a car from the airport? Can't recall. Can't even recall the flight there but that must have been how I got there. The first part I can recall is that I went to Maria Coleman's office on one of the top floors of the building. She was the assistant to the bank president and I had known her for a while. She wasn't at her desk. I poked my head around the corner of the door of the bank president and he called me in. We spoke for a while and the topic came up that I was thinking of moving back. Apparently he later called the UFP manager and Bill Mueller, the director of engineering, later told me on the phone while discussing my employment offer, that I came highly recommended. Sometime during that visit, possibly that same day, but maybe another day, I met the two UFP employees in the same office I used to work at with Ketterman's there in the First Federal headquarters high-rise building in downtown Greenville. The next part I remember is being back at the Memphis and giving my two-week's notice letter to the office manager. My memory of my final day working there in the Memphis office is of sitting the Commodore computer someone had there and I was playing "Gunship 2000" the video game I played also on my own Commodore computer at home.
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Gunship 2000
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1992
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April 5
The Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina (without the presence of Serb political delegates) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Bosnian War: Serb troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo.
May 7
STS-49: Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its maiden flight, as a replacement for Space Shuttle Challenger.
The Michigan Legislature approves the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution. With that approval, the amendment had been adopted by 38 states and is thereby approved.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:34 PM Pacific Time near Seattle Washington State USA Wednesday 17 July 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/07/thats-swimming-distance.html
That's Swimming Distance.
I've been trying to remember the visits I made to Ashdown in the early 1990s.
I recall the visit I made during Memorial Day 1990. I remember my Ashdown Class of 1984 high school reunion in August 1994.
So this one time I am thinking of now must have been before that visit in 1994 and after that Memorial Day 1990 visit.
I was driving my red 1990 Mazda RX-7 that time. I have been trying to remember when I bought that car. I had that car when I took out Bobbilynn to see the 1990 film "Kindergarten Cop" at the theatre in Anderson South Carolina. That movie is listed as premiering in December 1990 but I think we must have seen it in early 1991. Can't recall for certain. I might have written she was over at my duplex apartment on Wexford in Taylors South Carolina in January or February 1991. I think I wrote she was over at my place in February but I don't recall if I wrote about which year that was. I think that must have been 1991. I was driving that RX-7 then. I guess I could have bought the car in 1990. Can't recall for certain. I bought it used and I have been thinking I got it in 1991. I traded in that Honda Civic car for it.
So anyway, I was back in Ashdown sometime around then and I guess that was 1991. Could have been 1992 though. I recall that 1992 is when I moved briefly to Memphis Tennessee and was living in an apartment off Winchester in Germantown which is a suburb of Memphis. My office was close fairly close to downtown Memphis and I worked on computer terminals at the St. Jude's hospital which I seem to recall was very near downtown Memphis. I remember my last day working in that office I was playing "Gunship 2000" on a personal computer. That was a sequel to a video game where you flew combat missions in a US Army Apache gunship helicopter. So that was 1992. I remember because my employer, Ketterman's, had a 2-year maintenance contract with First Federal Savings and Loan in Greenville South Carolina. Get it? *GREEN*ville. So the contract expired and First Federal didn't renew and they awarded the maintenance contract to Universal Financial Products in Chicago. I accepted an employment offer from Ketterman's at the Memphis office and moved there. Tracie and I were dating by that time. I drove my RX-7 around Memphis for a while but I could barely afford the payments and I traded it in for a brand new 1992 Plymouth Laser car and that was in 1992. I was there in Memphis for about six weeks and then I accepted an employment offer from UFP and I moved back to Greenville to continue the same job I was working at for two years prior to that and all the bank employees, from the bank president on down to the bank tellers were all very happy that I had come back to fix their machines.
Oh yeah, and another notion I wanted to elaborate on here about the suspected gaps in my conscious memory. I have started thinking in terms of my memory being blocked by passive and active means. The passive block is the security drug. The active block is some kind of hypnosis. My suspicion about the hypnosis is the most troubling because that means I have deliberately false memories. The passive block is something that I am now thinking that I can get around. But the possibility that I have fabricated memories seems impossible to me to overcome. I mean, how can I question reality when my perception of reality is completely false. And then that got me thinking about my renowned atomic-strength sense of humor. I could have fabricated false memories in my mind because of my sense of humor.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 05/01/07 7:33 AM
I moved out to Central, SC, even though that was a long drive into the office in Greenville, but I was close to where Tracie lived with her parents and I got to see her everyday from then on. I was living there at Hunter's Glen off Issaqueena Trail.
I called Thedia and she wondered where I had been for a long time as I had not talked to any of them.
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http://www.boeing.com/history/products/ah-64-apache.page
Boeing
AH-64 APACHE ATTACK HELICOPTER
Historical Snapshot
The AH-64 Apache was designed to be an extremely tough survivor under combat. The prototype Apache made its first flight in 1975 as the YAH-64, and in 1976, Hughes received a full-scale development contract. In 1982, the Army approved the program, now known as AH-64A Apache, for production. Deliveries began from the McDonnell Douglas plant at Mesa, Ariz., in 1984 — the year Hughes Helicopters became part of McDonnell Douglas.
A target acquisition and designation sight/pilot night-vision sensor and other advanced technologies added to its effectiveness in the ground support role. To reduce costs and simplify logistics, the Apache used the same T700 engines as the Army’s Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopter and its naval cousin, the SH-60 Seahawk.
Highly maneuverable and heavily armed, the combat-proven Apache helicopter is the backbone of the U.S. Army’s all-weather, ground-support capability. The AH-64D Apache Longbow, which first flew as a prototype on May 14, 1992, provided a quantum leap in capability over the AH-64A. The Apache Longbow’s fire-control radar and advanced avionics suite gave combat pilots the ability to rapidly detect, classify, prioritize, and engage stationary or moving enemy targets at standoff ranges in nearly all weather conditions. There is also an international Apache export version.
Over the years, the Apache has been enhanced with advanced technology to make the helicopter more survivable, deployable and easier to maintain. The AH-64 Apache is the most advanced multirole combat helicopter for the U.S. Army and a growing number of international defense forces.
In 2003, the Army accepted the first advanced technology Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow, referred to as Block II. The Block II version incorporated advanced avionics, digital enhancements and communications upgrades.
In 2011, Boeing delivered the first AH-64D Apache Block III multirole attack helicopter to the Army. Block III brought superior flight performance and increased networked communications capabilities. The AH-64D Apache Block III was renamed the AH-64E Apache “Guardian” in 2012.
In 2012, Boeing also received all-new fuselages for the first AH-64E helicopters, incorporating a variety of small but important modifications to accommodate AH-64E configuration changes, such as enhancements to the extended forward avionics bays and slots for new electronics. More than 100 AH-64Es had been produced as of October 2014.
Technical Specifications
AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter
First flight Sept. 30, 1975
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-15/news/mn-2239_1_space-station
Los Angeles Times
Rocket Blasts Satellite Toward a Proper Orbit : Space: The reboost is flawlessly accomplished. Two astronauts perform mission's last planned spacewalk.
May 15, 1992 ROBERT W. STEWART TIMES STAFF WRITER
HOUSTON — The stranded communications satellite rescued by three shuttle astronauts blasted toward its proper orbit Thursday, ending a dramatic effort that in the words of NASA's top official "brought the magic back to our space program."
The 23,000-pound rocket motor clamped to the marooned Intelsat 6 by the crew of space shuttle Endeavour fired flawlessly at 10:25 a.m. PDT while both were orbiting about 230 miles over Africa, said a spokesman for the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization. The 122-nation consortium, based in Washington, owns and operates the $150-million satellite.
The reboost capped a dramatic, four-day rescue effort in which astronauts were forced to discard a specially designed, $7-million tool that failed to snag the errant satellite, and instead literally reached up and grabbed the Intelsat with their gloved hands.
Wednesday's 8-hour, 29-minute spacewalk, which includes the time astronauts spent in the shuttle airlock, was the longest in the history of the American space program.
"It was a wonderful feat," said Daniel S. Goldin, the new administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The successful rescue, Goldin argued, is an endorsement of the nation's manned space program, which has come under attack by some in Congress because of its expense. The planned space station Freedom, for example, is expected to cost between $30 billion and $40 billion through the end of the decade.
In the last planned spacewalk of the mission Thursday, Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas D. Akers, 40, and physicist Kathryn C. Thornton, 39--only the second American woman to walk in space--ventured out of the shuttle at 2:07 p.m. PDT to practice techniques that will be used in building the space station.
Their task was to assemble a package of struts, some of which were used in Wednesday's satellite rescue, into a pyramid-like structure secured in the shuttle's open cargo bay. The structure then was lifted high over the bay by the shuttle's 50-foot robot arm.
After snagging Intelsat 6 Wednesday and attaching the new booster rocket, the shuttle crew released the satellite, which was allowed to drift away. The two were more than 400 miles apart by the time Intelsat 6's rocket motor was fired Thursday. After the fiery reboost, which was visible from the shuttle, the motor separated from the satellite at 11:51 a.m. PDT, and Intelsat 6 streaked into a temporary elliptical orbit that will take it as far as 45,000 nautical miles from the Earth. By next Wednesday, the satellite is expected to settle into its stationary, geosynchronous orbit 22,300 nautical miles over the Atlantic Ocean.
When it begins operating in mid-July, the satellite will be able to simultaneously transmit 120,000 telephone calls and three television feeds. It is expected to earn more than $750 million for Intelsat over its 10-year life.
Goldin offered lavish praise for the Intelsat rescue.
"What we have done," Goldin said, "is demonstrate that humans can and should operate in space." He spoke of "brilliance of the human mind, that's able to adapt and react and do the things that machines just can't do."
"In front of the eyes of the world, they performed the impossible. . . . Yesterday brought the magic back to our space program."
At Intelsat headquarters, consortium Vice President Pierre Madon said: "Clearly, this is a magnificent day for both Intelsat and NASA. . . . I offer my hearty congratulations to the crew of Endeavour and NASA for a job well done."
Even as Goldin was congratulating the seven Endeavour astronauts and flight controllers at the Johnson Space Center for the rescue, NASA engineers were searching for lessons in the trouble-plagued mission, which is to end Saturday with a scheduled 1:57 p.m. PDT landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
"One of the preliminary factors we're learning about is how to do better simulations on the ground," Goldin said Thursday.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:55 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 01 November 2016
