Chub! Excellent - glad it's all coming together for you! Hey, if you see a
guy named Joe Mazzerella at CalTech (usually hangs around the Physics Dept),
tell him George from Connecticut says HI!
George from Connecticut
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Osthelder" <charlesosthelder@...>
To: <motm@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:43 PM
Subject: [motm] Thank You!!!
> To all -
>
> When I started my synth project in September of 2001, I was an
> electronics geek going to school fulltime at night for my BASEET and
> working fulltime at Eaton in the Product Integrity Center. I knew
> that my work would pay off and Paul S. was always offering
> encouragement. And when it did pay off, I'd have a cool modular to
> play with. Little did I know that after graduation, things would only
> become more difficult.
>
> My wife's position at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee was not
> going well and tenure was doubtful. After all the lies and crap they
> did to her, I don't think she would have accepted anyway. Being
> brilliant, however, she got an excellent post-doctoral fellowship at
> the University of Pennsylvania! Unfortunately. this meant she would
> live in Philadelphia for three years while I raised our grandson.
>
> When the end of the post-doc neared, I asked the MOTM community for
> help in choosing a new city to live in. Many universities were giving
> Bonnie great offers, and we could choose to live in the environment
> we wanted. As Paul told me over and over, I could work where I
> wanted. Many of you offered useful information about your locals and
> invited my family to visit.
>
> Finally, Bonnie chose her alma mater,(the last one anyway)University
> of Southern California. We'd lived in the area while she worked on
> her PhD and we missed it. Besides, what better place for an
> electronics geek to find work?
>
> Indeed. On March 5th, I begin my career at the California Institute
> of Technology (yes, that Cal Tech!) as Senior Electronics Technician
> for the Laser Interferometer Gravity-Wave Observatory or LIGO. My job
> will be to upgrade the mostly audio frequency electronics used to
> collect signals from the observatory equipment. There are no words to
> describe how excited I am, but for a better understanding of LIGO, go
> to http://www.ligo.caltech.edu and check it out. I guarantee that
> your vocabulary of superlatives will be enhanced in short order!
>
> Thank you everyone for your kind words, support, teaching, putting up
> with my bad jokes and just being there. And if you have any doubts,
> your modular experience belongs on your resume.
>
> Onward!
>
> Chub