Feb 09, 2014 18:56
Right... I've had this project that has been on hold for several months... documenting what I did, where I was, etc. based on my old journal books which go back to 1986. Anyway, today I've got it in my head to try to do some more.... maybe catch-up a little and eventually I'll have all that info in here.
Here's my status in September 1991:
- Age 26
- Living with my then wife, F, on the 6th floor at the top of an apartment building on Fleet Street in downtown Portsmouth, NH. A place we only lived at for a short time (half a year I think).
- Worked at GE in Somersworth, NH as a Technical Supervisor in an electronics assembly area of a watt-hour meter factory.
September 1991
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- B. Scott H., F's old managing editor, visits us in Portsmouth in early September. I don't feel like going with them down to Cambridge the next day.
- Business at GE where I work has been slow, and some work has moved to Puerto Rico. Employees are trying to start up a union.
- Sept 12, 1991: "Well, like I said in our last episode, they're trying to start a union at GE. Working class scum!! As a member of GE management, I am a highly-trained union basher. 'We do not need a union here at GE, in my opinion.'" (is what I have been trained to say)
- Weekend visit by Kevin and Tim. We go up to Loon Mountain to see the Highland Games.
- Sept 18, 1991: "Communism has fallen. Strange days have found us." (Yeltsin and people power put down the hardliner coup recently)
- In other news... Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court are going on, Yugoslavia is having a civil war, George H. W. Bush addresses the UN about Iraqi nuclear sites, Noriega is on trial, coup in Haiti etc
- My parents and Grandma Dorothy come for a visit in Portsmouth.
- I get tickets from someone at work who couldn't go to a concert by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Great Woods. F and I attend.
- F and I drive up to Burlington, VT to look around and see some foliage along the way. I get a speeding ticket.
- Sept 30: "Here's the ABC News. 1. Education here sucks. 2. Russia agrees not to blow up the world. 3. U.S. will stop spending so much money on death and destruction." etc
communism,
eastern europe,
dad,
f word,
journal,
nuclear energy,
mom,
george h.w. bush,
engineering,
united nations,
vermont,
new hampshire,
concerts,
russia,
iraq,
life 1990 - 1994,
nuclear weapons,
caribbean,
friends,
chronicle of my life