Radar love ~

I remember long, long ago when my wife and I were in a Sunday school class and the teacher didn't really like my contribution.

Valentine's Day was coming up and the lesson was about love of course. The teacher had a dry erase board at the front of the room. He wrote the word "love" on it. He asked us in the class if we could think of songs with the word "love" in the title. "Endless Love" was named. A couple of others that were good love songs were name. And then I raised my hand and said "Radar Love".

Why? I was a young air traffic control specialist and had been certified for a couple of years. It was very strange for me to be in a Sunday school class because I usually worked Sundays. Somehow I had that Sunday off and was able to go to church with my wife on a Sunday morning, a rare occurrence early in our marriage. An air traffic controller used radar to track airplanes. I really liked the driving beat of the song by Golden Earring. And it just popped into my head!

The teacher scowled and said "that's not the kind of song I'm looking for" and just kept rolling. And then we had a good lesson and a nice discussion. But he made a real quick exit when the class was over and we need to get out to the church sanctuary for service.

I've always been a little bit off be like that. Out of sync with the people around me. Just doing my own thing!

Here's a link to the song radar love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRlSHG5hRY4

Heat transfer paper in college ~

I've been a nerd a long time. I didn't get a locker in my freshman year of high school so I carried all of my books everywhere at school that year. Asking with my Star Trek book that I was reading at the time.

In college I had a Commodore 64 computer and ran the Geoworks graphical user interface (GUI) on it so I could type up my papers with bigger fonts :-)

One semester I turned in my semester "term" paper on heat transfer paper. I had gotten a printer and some rolls of paper to use with it so I thought I'd give it a try.

I thought it looked great! Yes the paper was different and didn't stay flat the way bonded typewriter paper did but it was the correct number of pages and met the word count rules.

My professors were very unhappy with me about this. I had to argue my case for using the heat transfer paper with most of them for a semester. But they eventually accepted it. Woohoo!

I was a bit of a rebel, too. In my own way :-)