MOTM

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