HERE IS THE STORY ABOUT LEON RUSSELL!!!
My Website: leoncrussell.com
My father was born in Oohlagah , Oklahoma! (1901) (See my website for background of Leo C Russell)
My Mother was born in Sanford, Florida! (1903) (See my website for background of Dorothy M. ‘Boyd’ Russell)
You will find other people in this family there also!
I was born at Sanford City Hospital, Mon 7:00 April 15, 1940 (04/15/1940) I’m in the website too!
My adventures:
LET’S START!! My Mom and Dad moved to Toledo, Ohio in May of 1942! Dad needed work and the War Plants were hiring! Aunt Vivian and Uncle Eddy preceded my family moving to Toledo and Eddy went to work at Spicer! Dad found Spicer Corporation still building half tracks! New ones were fun to ride! Sometimes, not so much, the huge tow truck was necessary!!! They had family days! That’s how I know about riding!
Dad also worked for Steve Bond who owned 20th Century Oil Company, 3 gasoline stations in Toledo! Each Station had a railroad siding to accept rail tankers of gasoline! Delivery trucks were not so much then! Each tanker would hold 10,000 gallons of fuel! Gasolines were much cheaper at the refineries! Rail transportation was cheap! They brought in 89 and 94 Octane! 94 with The Ethyl additive, making engines run better, smoother! It had to be colored red when sold in the stations! When it was pumped from the railcar to the station holding tank the color was added! OOOOOH! It was so much fun jumping off the railcar and Dad would catch me!!!!!! Each station had 2 or 3 20,000 gallon storage tanks! All were heated with water jackets to keep the temperature steady at 65 degrees, because it got really cold in Toledo! Dispensing at this temperature was deemed fair for the station and the user!
There is more about life in Toledo on the website!
Yeah, I went to Toledo Public Schools! Newbury Elementary School, Jones Junior High School!
Then we moved and I changed to Harvard Junior High School til 1954!! I AM A GRADUATE OF HARVARD!
THEN to Libbey High School 4 years, graduate June 1958!!!!
Since Dad purchased one of the gas stations, I kinda volunteered to work at the station! until I was 16! Needed to support my car! 1956 Special Blue Dodge Coupe! The Unofficial time I worked at the station started in 1947! I handed out the pound of sugar as an incintive to buy 20th Century, it was rationed by the Government, for buying 10 or more gallons! We had access to the sugar through Steve Bond! We always had access to things like this!!!
Late in 1959 I went to work for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, as a Clerk! Still worked for Dad on weekends! or whenever! June’s(wife) Uncle Lowel worked at the C&O as a Fireman/Engineer! Helps to have an in!!!!
Well I didn’t take long to do life! I married June Drudzinski (whom I met at Jones Junior high School 1952), on May 23, 1959! then 3 Kids, 1 boy 2 girls, and 13 years later! More Life!! Divorce Final December 13, 1972!
There is more about my life in Toledo on the website! From 1943 to 1974!!
I had attended the University of Toledo starting in 1958 for Business Management and Engineering! More Life took control! My working load and Family became a hindrance So I halted the Education plan after 2 years!! Well 4 years of working and planning, worked out! 3 kids were in the family, still working on the Railroad! The railroad had started to install computer equipment in the yards! of course I had seniority enough to work those jobs!! Then the C&O started an Employee Education Plan! I pay and earn at least a C grade, they reimbursed the cost! Yep, that was for me!
The University of Toledo now offered a Computer Science Degree! THAT WAS FOR ME TOO! My previous points counted, But The computer courses were different, so back to full time educating and working on the railroad! Graduated 1968 4.9/5.0 GPA! I got dinged for not being good at Physical Education, particularly the pull-ups and climing the rope!! The Railroad offered me a position in Huntington WV, but I wanted a business career! I had taken an internship in 1967 at Inmont Corporation, Coated Fabrics Division, Computer Systems Engineer! I helped build a Computerized Color Matching System for the coated fabrics in Toledo saving big dollars, and a Bill of Material System, for inventory management and to schedule operations! More dollars! Then consolidation of the Computer systems happened, They left me out in Toledo! They moved the Toledo system to Detroit! Color matching of paints, that worked really well too! And, the New York City System to New Jersey from 5th avenue NY! April, 1970! Call the Job Hunter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next up: Questor Corporation, Multi Division Company! AP Auto Parts! Toledo, Spaulding Sporting Goods, Chicopee MA! Even Flo Baby Products, Akron OH! Shock Absorbers,Dyersburg, TN! Mufflers, Grand Haven, MI! (Have you ever driven around in 6 to 7 FEET OF SNOW! You need a tennis ball on top of your radio antenna, so others cars could see you over the snow banks!!!) My project was to install in every plant a Bill of Material System for inventory management and to schedule operations! In December of 1973 I taught my juniors so well that I wasn’t needed so I was included in the blood bath! Caused by the Governments 55 mile an hour speed limit everywhere! Nice hit to the Auto Industry!! Nixon did it! ON 01/03/1974 I went to the Job Hunter!
In 2 weeks GTE Information Systems needed a Sales Systems Engineer in Cleveland, OH. to help with their Key To Disk System!! That was Me! Again a multi division company! Key to Disk, IBM “Me to Terminals” and Service, GTE Stock Market Instant Prices System, Restaurant OTC Sales System For McDonalds, Burger King, and others! In some way GTE had all the Fortunes, and many of the large locals as a customer! In Tampa, FL, the secret division was working with the GTE telephone system!! Learn this secret, below!
I spent 2 months in California in school for the Key To Disk System. I and 3 others were the SE-Team! We were always supporting Sales, programming in Cobol language for the clients! And always present when any of the products and the systems were down and the hardware maintenance and repair technicians were on site!!! The SE-Team were there to test the repaired system to validate the repair! I eventually built a WAR room to make sure our repair technicians had parts for all equipment that needed repair! Parts needed to be in hand, by the next morning “NO EXCEPTIONS”!!! I CALLED OUT THE GTE COMPANY JET to deliver parts cross the USA! GTE President said so!! Finding them was the key to this success! Anywhere, Even from suppliers!!
My Salesman team (April/May 1974) partner had a girl friend in Ashtabula, Ohio! She wanted to make a blind date for me to meet her friend! My team partner didn’t want to do that! Hey, I’m a big boy!! So, Theresa Mauri, Ashtabula, OH called me, Friday afternoon, to find out who this Leon Russell was???? We talked for a while and I asked what she was doing that night, that was it! We met in Ashtabula! Theresa was Divorced and so was I! We dated every night since our meeting on around April 20th! By May 20th we ran away to just have fun and came back married! May 21, 1974!! This Great GTE Job lasted until Jan 1982 When GTE closed most divisions and morphed into The Secret Division, Verizon Wireless! I have lots of Verizon stock! I called the Head Hunter!
He convinced me to be a salesman for Cincinnati based Data Processing Sciences: Working Western Pennsylvania, and North Eastern Ohio!
I already knew the people in Firestone, Goodyear, and Ohio Edison! I sold many Data Communication Digital Testing Machines to the Major Coal, Aluminum, and Banking Companies every where in my territory, especially Pittsburg! OH! My, I really done good! I designed, engineered then sold an $800,000 – 75 audio and 75 digital channels network restoral system for Ohio Edison downtown Akron, OH. They were the able to connect all channels all at one location!!! This had a really special Switch! In case of a local computer failure, throw the switch and all channels switched to different audio and digital multiplexers connected to a hot stand by computer in a bunkered structure in Chicago area! OH! They then built a new computer center miles away from their downtown center! White Pod Drive!!! Yep they needed a second one! Did I tell ya? Since I engineered these extremley capable systems, I was also the one who had to install them! Coveralls and all! Each system had Audio signal testing and Digital Data Communication Testing Machines! You could see the digital data flowing over the lines and hear the audio signal!
Then the tragedy struck!
June 16, 1984, I was leaving Ashtabula going to a customer’s site! Route 20 had a 45 MPH speed limit. I was about 40 when I rounded the curve on slightly wet pavement from a shower that stopped! AND, there she was, turning left in front of me! I smacked her at my 40 into her right rear quarter panel center dead on!! She spun around hitting the Utility pole with a square hit in the left quarter panel! My car crunched as an accordion! My right knee hit the bottom edge of the dash! Nice cut there! Band aid style! I hit the Seat Belt at 40MPH! I thought I had the miracle accident! The next day I had a 4″ black and blue mark from my Left shoulder across my chest to my Right hip!!! Still didn’t hurt so much, just cranky muscles because they were jerked the wrong way!!! At this point I did some research on smacking your seat belt at 40MPh and the damage it can cause! Canadian Research has determined that crashing as I did and at 45MPH will rip your heart from your aorta!
WEE OOOH! I MISSED THE big one!!!! BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU BRUISE EVERY ORGAN IN YOUR CHEST! WHAT IF YOUR AORTA IS ENLARGED FROM THE STRETCHING, WHAT IF YOUR LUNGS SWELL UP BECAUSE THEY DON’T LIKE SWINGING LIKE A PENDULUM CRASHING INTO BOTH SIDES OF YOUR CHEST! WHAT IF YOUR STOMACH, JUST AFTER LUNCH, HITS THE WALL ON THE RIGHT AND SLIDES DOWN ENOUGH TO YANK ON YOUR ESOPHAGUS AND WIND PIPE TO STRETCH THE TOP OF THEM BOTH! I DO!!
I WAS NOT HOSPITALIZED DURING THE PROCESS!!
IN 4 DAYS IT STARTED, 5th DAY OH BOY! THE RESULT OF THE INJURIES TO THE ESOPHAGUS AND WIND PIPE MANIFESTED THEMSELVES! THEY PRODUCED AT THE VERY TOP OF THE WINDPIPE, THICK PHLEM THAT STAYED THERE! THE TICKLE CAUSED ME TO COUGH EVERY 10 MINUTES!! 24/7 7/DAYS PER WEEK! THAT CLEARED THIS BATCH OF PHLEM, BUT THE NEXT BATCH WAS READY IN 10 MINUTES!!! THE ESOPHAGUS HAD TO JOIN THE FRAY AND HURT WITH EVERY COUGH! THE ONLY THING I COULD EAT WAS A CREAM OF ANY SOUP OF ANYTHING, AND VERY CAREFULLY! THE LUNGS JOINED IN AND LOVED ASTHMA SYMPTOMS! MORE COUGHING! WHEN I PRESENTED AT THE CLEVELAND CLINIC DOCTOR, HE WAS ASTOUNDED AND IMMEDIATELY SENT ME TO ULTRA SOUND AND MRI AND CT SCANNING! RIGHT NOW! NO WAITING! THE RESULTS: “SLIGHTLY ENLARGED AORTA, TENSED LUNGS, BARELEY EXPANDING, THEY NEVER CAUGHT THE PRODUCTION OF THE PHLEM, AND TICKLE ON THE SCANNERS!” THE ONLY TREATMENT OPTION WAS CORTISONE TO CALM DOWN EVERYTHING, STARTING AT 40MG PER DAY! PAA-SHAW THAT WASN’T ENOUGH! DOCTOR SAID! INCREASE THE DOSE BY 5MG PER DAY EVERY 3 DAYS UNTIL THE COUGH QUIT! THAT TOOK ABOUT 3 MONTHS!
THE TIME TO EVALUATE, EACH STEP AND AMOUNT OF CORTIZONE I HAD TO GET TO WAS A LONG PROCESS!
OOOOHHH WHAT A RELIEF IT IS! AT 85MG PER DAY (I WAS NOT TAKING ALKA SELTZER) BUT WHEN I COULD SLEEP, AND WITH NO COUGH, WHAT A REAL SPECIAL FEELING! IT STILL TOOK ANOTHER 3 MONTHS TO CALM MY ORGANS DOWN!
NO, this saga isn’t over! At this point I had not worked for 6 months! Fortunately, I had income Insurance! EVERY ONE SHOULD HAVE IT! GET IT NOW!!!!! They covered 80% of my average monthly income as verified by Data Processing Sciences! WHEW!!!!!
THE MEDICAL PART OF THIS ISN’T OVER!! THE DOCTORS COULDN’T RELEASE ME FROM CARE UNTIL I COULD REDUCE RELIANCE ON THE MASSIVE AMOUT OF CORTISONE I WAS TAKING! I HAD TO REDUCE THE MG AMOUNT 5MG EVERY 3 DAYS! THE FIRST TRY WAS DOWN TO 80MG AND THE COUGHING CAME BACK, I WAITED 2 WEEKS TO TRY AGAIN! MY GOAL WAS BELOW 40MG PERDAY! 2ND TRY 75MG! 3RD TRY 70MG, AND SO ON! THIS TOOK 5 MONTHS, BUT THEN I NEEDED TO HAVE 30 DAYS WITHOUT A RELAPSE! I DID!
THIS WHOLE PROCESS TOOK 18 MONTHS UNTIL THE DOCTORS RELEASED ME TO WORK!
THERE’S MORE! I CALLED MY BOSS TO SCHEDULE MY RETURN DATE!!!! IT WAS AND I ARRIVED AT 8:00 AM EXCITED! THE MEET: HE SAID THEY NO LONGER NEEDED ME BECAUSE I WAS STALE, AND THEY WERE NOT GOING TO PAY FOR MY RE-EDUCATION!
DISASTER!
WHAT DO I DO NOW!!! I KNEW THE INDUSTRY AND
I CALLED THE COMPETITOR,!! HE JUMPED AT THE CHANCE TO HAVE CLEVELAND REPRESENTATION! I KNEW THE TERRITORY, I HAD MANY CLIENTS! I HAD THEY SAME PRODUCTS AND WITH EVERY PROJECT DEVELOPING IN THE OLD TERRITORY I BID ON THEM AND BEAT DPS EVERY TIME! RETALIATION AND CARMA IS THE REASON! THIS LASTED 18 MONTHS WHEN NJ COMMUNICATION HARDWARE MADE TWO INSTALLATION MISTAKES, THAT COST ENOUGH TO BANKRUPT THEM! OH WELL JUST ANOTHER CHALLENGE! THIS TIME, NOT SO MUCH!! I STARTED SELLING LARGE COPORATE TELEPHONE SYSTEMS INTO A SATURATED MARTKET BY THE PHONE COMPANIES! INDEPENDENTS NOT SO MUCH!
WE STARTED LOSING EVERYTHING! THERESA AND I DECIDED TO GO TO FLORIDA! WE SOLD EVERY GOOD THING IN OUR HOUSE! THEY WERN’T THE CHEAP STUFF! EXAMPLE: CHERRY WOOD DINING TABLE AND CHAIRS, COST $2400 STILL SOLD FOR $2400!
IN FLORIDA I LANDED A JOB WITH BOCA COLLECTIONS(BC) AS THEIR DATA PROCESSING MANAGER! A TOP PROGRAMMER UNTIL THE HARDWARE WAS INSTALLED! OUR SYSTEM CAUGHT 90% OF THE PRINCIPALS THAT ABSCONDED WITHOUT PAYING THEIR RESTAURANT FOOD BILLS! THEY ALWAYS STARTED IN ANOTHER CITY BECAUSE FLORIDA IS SO BIG AND SNOWBIRDS ARE FLOCKING! OUR BOCA COLLECTIONS OWNERS WERE NOT SO HONEST EITHER: THEY SPENT OUR CLIENTS COLLECTION MONEY TO BUILD BOCA COLLECTIONS! WHEN THE CLIENTS FOUND OUT: KABOOM THE NOISE WAS HEARD ALL OVER FLORIDA! THEY OFFERED TO TAKE OVER OPERATIONS OF BC BECAUSE WE HAD THE TALENT NEEDED TO DO WHAT THEY NEEDED FOR COLLECTING! THESE RESTAURANT PRINCIPALS AWAYS RUN SOMEWHERE! WE DID A LOT OF SKIP TRACING AND HAD 2 REALLY TALENTED SKIP TRACERS! SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS ARE GREAT!
SOMEONE THREW IN THE WRENCH AND BC CLOSED! PROBABLY THE COULDN’T AFFORD THEIR SHARE!!
WHEN THERESA AND I CAME TO FLORIDA IN 2006 WE RENTED AN APARTMENT IN AN APARTMENT COMPLEX FOR $350.00 PER MONTH. THIS COMPANY SAW THAT WE WERE STABLE, PAID EVERY MONTH ON TIME, AND THERESA FOUND OUT THE THEY OWNED THE GEORGIAN PARK TOWNHOUSE COMMUNITY IN JUPITER! THEY OFFERED US A PURCHASE OF ONE UNIT, THEY BUILT THEM AND THEY WERN’T SELLING WELL, NO MONEY DOWN AND GREAT INTEREST RATE! WE HAD BEEN THERE 3 YEARS NOW! BELOW I CREATED MORE INCOME!!!
WE WERE WELL ESTABLISHED, IN ASHTABULA, OHIO , BECAUSE: THERESA HAD A BEAUTY SHOP, AND WE ALSO OWNED A JEWELRY STORE IN ASHTABULA, OH AND HAD INVENTORY LEFT TO SELL! IN FLORIDA THERE ARE MANY FLEA MARKETS! SOME WITH GREAT REPUTATIONS: WE CHOSE LUCKY’S IN STUART, FL. WE EVENTUALLY MADE ABOUT $800.00 PER WEEKEND! OUR 8 FT STAND GREW TOO SMALL, AND WE RENTED A 16 X 20 FOOT SPACE NEAR THE OLD STAND! NECESSARY FOR CUSTOMER CONTINUNITY! THE STAND NEXT TO US WAS RENTED BY A PERSON THAT WOULD DRIVE AROUND JUPITER TO FT PIERCE LOOKING FOR SELLABLE CURB SIDE DISCARDS, HE SOLD ON THE WEEKENDS!
I STARTED ADVERTISING COMPUTERS BUILT BY RUSSELL! THIS WAS THE PERSONALIZING OF THE COMPUTER ERA! THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE THAT NEEDED THEM AND RECOGNISED A BARGAIN! NEW, NOT USED, GREAT FLEA MARKET PRICE! I LOST MORE THAN 10 SALES, ONE DAY, I CHASED THEM DOWN THE MIDWAY, AND THIS IS WHAT I LEARNED! I WAS A FLEA MARKET OPERATOR AND COULD CLOSE INSTANTLY, THERE WAS NO TRUST!!! SO I LOOKED FOR A STORE FRONT, THAT’S NOT DIFFICULT IN FLORIDA! BY THIS TIME WE HAD MOVED TO A ROLLUP CLOSED STAND IN THE STUART FLEA MARKET ACROSS THE STREET! ROGER THE COLLECTOR AND I SPLIT THE ROLLUP RENT OF $380. SO NOT DIFFICULT TO GO TO $500 FOR A STORE FRONT WITH A RESTAURANT NEXT DOOR! THAT WAS BUILT IN TRAFFIC! I USED 1000SF of the 5000SF FOR THE BUSINESS COMPUTER CENTER, SELLING COMPUTERS, BUSINESS COMPUTER NETWORKS, MAINTENANCE, AND INSTALLATION!!! THERESA’S AND ROGER’S 2ND TIME AROUND STORE USED 3500SF FOR THEIR DISPLAY! LEAVING 500SF FOR TOILET AND HEATING AND COOLING EQUIPMENT! DOING BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERESA DID THE SELLING ROGER DID THE HUNTING! WE ALL HAD GOOD INCOMES!
THE RESTAURANT TRAFFIC BROUGHT TRUEL BROWN TO MY STORE! HE WAS OPENING A COMPANY IN RIVERA BEACH! HE NEEDED THOUSANDS OF COMPUTERS CUSTOMISED TO CONNECT TO THE IVS AUTO TESTING DEVICE! THE TWO COMPONENTS WERE THE IVS MARKETING AUTO ERROR TESTING MACHINE AND A COMPUTER! MECHANICS ONLY HAD THEIR HAND HELD ERROR CODE READ OUT DIAGNOSING ATTACHMENT!
THE IVS MACHINE COULD MONITOR TIMING, EACH SPARKPUG OERATION DISPLAYED INDIVIDUALY, THE FUEL COMSUMPTION, THE 3 GAS EXHAUST CHEMICAL COMPOSITION, AND WHETHER, AND WHAT ONE OF THE GROUND STRAPS IS OPEN OR CORRODED! I BUILT OVER 5000 COMPUTERS, SHIPPED ALL OVER THE WORLD! IN THE BEGINNING I ALSO WENT TO WORK FOR IVS MARKETING AS THEIR COMPUTER AND DATA PROCESSING MANAGER!
i NEEDED SOME ONE TO OPERATE THE COMPUTER CENTER WHEN I COULDN’T! WELL, FRANK JOHNSON WALKED THRU THE DOOR! HE HAD A BOAT PROPELLER REPAIR SHOP IN PUERTO RICO! HIS OTHER FAMILY TOOK OVER THERE! FRANK HAD A HOUSE, AND WIFE! HE NEEDED TO SUPPORT IN STUART AND NEEDED SOME INCOME! HE WAS THE MAN! HE COULD SELL AND CONFIGUE COMPUTERS, BUILD THEM, REPAIR THEM, AND WHAT HE COULDN’T, HE LEFT TO ME IN THE EVENING! HE BUILT SEVERAL THOUSAND RUSSELL COMPUTERS!
WE ALO STARTED BUILDING WEBSITES FOR THE INTERNET AND INTERNET CAPABLE COMPUTERS!
WE BUILT 50 TO 100 WEBSITES FOR THE JUPITER AND STUART BUSINESSES!
I BUILT SERVERS TO HOST THOSE SITES AT THE COMPUTER CENTER!
NOW!
THERESA WITH HER JEWELRY BUSINESS MET RON EDMUNDS! FROM ENGLAND! HE WAS GOING TO MARRY HIS GIRL FRIEND, AND WANTED A SUPERBLY DESIGNED ENGAGEMENT RING! JUST WHAT THERESA DOES! SHE DID! AND, IT WAS MAGNIFICENT BECAUSE WE WORKED WITH A SUPERB MANUFACTURING JEWLER! SEND HIM A DESIGN AND HE COULD BUILD IT!
WHEN SHE CLOSED THE 2ND HAND STORE, MY INCOME WAS DOING WELL, SO SHE DECIDED TO VOLUNTEER WITH THE JUPITER HOSPITAL, AND THE JUPITER HOSPITAL THRIFT STORE! THIS IS WHERE WE MET DOM DELLUISE, AND BURT REYNOLDS! THESE TWO TOGETHER WILL SPLIT YOUR RIBS!! TERESA HAD TO GO TO DOM’S ROOM AT JUPITER HOSPITAL TO CHEER HIM UP! THERESA HAD BEEN A SHOW PERSON SINCE SHE DANCED ON HER DAD’S RESTAURANT BAR AT 5 YEARS OLD! SHE NEW HOW TO BE THE SIDE KICK, ANSWERING HIS COMENTS FOR THE DOUBLE LAUGH! WE ALL HAD A BALL AT BURT REYNOLDS PLAY HOUSE IN JUPITER! SHE AND DOM BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN EVERY TIME THEY PLAYED AT THE THEATER!
DOM BOUGHT LOTS OF STUFF FROM THERESA TO FURNISH HIS INCOME HOUSES IN JUPITER! BURT DIDN’T DO BAD EITHER BUYING THINGS FOR HIS RANCH AND POOR BOY RESTAURANTS!!!
YOU SEE: WHILE THE COMPUTER STORE WAS OPEN AND IVS CLOSED, MY TWO FRIENDS FROM IVS JOINED ME IN OPERATING THE COMPUTER CENTER: TRUEL BROWN, AND JIM BASKER! WE REALLY HAD A GREAT TEAM MAKING THE COMPUTER CENTER HUMM!! WHO CAME IN LOOKING FOR ME? RON EDMUNDS!
HIS FRIEND IN ENGLAND HAD A PRODUCT THAT HE WANTED TO BRING INTO THE UNITED STATES! A MEETING HAPPENED!
RON HAD A PRODUCT THAT NEEDED COMPUTERS TO OPERATE! WHERE DO YOU BUY RINGS AND COMPUTERS??? COINCIDENTALLY THE MEETING DISCLOSED THAT TRUEL BROWN KNEW THE TWO LARGEST PARTICIPANTS THAT COULD AND WOULD USE THIS PRODUCT! JIM WAS THE BUSINESS PARTNER WHO COULD MANAGE THE OFFICE WHEN WE HAD HUNDREDS OF THESE TO BE INSTALLED IN THE USA!
TRUEL PUT HIS SALES FACE AND HAT ON, GATHERED ALL THE DETAILS AND PICTURES THAT WOULD SELL THE PRODUCT! THEN WENT TO FORT LAUDERDALE! HE CAME BACK WITH AN ORDER FROM JACK NICKLAS GOLFING CENTERS!
100 OF THE GOLF BALL DISPENSING MACHINES!
THEN HE STUNNED ME WITH AN ORDER FROM FAMILY GOLF CENTERS!
200 OF THE GOLF BALL DISPENSING MACHINES!
ALL THREE OF US WORKED TO GET ALL THE ADMINISTRATIVE STUFF DONE TO GET THESE MACHINES IMPORTED AND THE LOGISTICS TO GET THEM INSTALLED!!!
ABOUT 50 TO 60!
THEN THE ONES INSTALLED IN KANSAS, OKLAHOMA, AND TEXAS STARTED FAILING IN THE HEAT! THE COMPONENTS ON THE MAIN BOARD WERE BURNING, DESTROYING THEM SELVES! THE MACHINE MAIN BOARDS COMPONENTS WERE NOT HARDENED TO WORK IN THE USA! THEY ALL WORKED IN EUROPE!!!!!!!!! THE USA HAS A HOTTER CLIMATE! WE SEARHED FOR A WAY TO RESOLVE THIS DISASTER!
NEITHER RON’S PARTNER NOR WE COULD OFFORD THE RE-ENGENEERING AND PRODUCTION OF THE NEW BOARDS, A MAJOR COST!
WHAT A REAL DISAPOINTMENT!!!!!
ABOUT 6 MONTHS PASSED! WE HAD CLEANED UP PART OF THIS FAILURE!
FOR THE COMPUTER CENTER OPERATIONS! JIM LEFT!
TRUEL AND I KEPT WORKING SELLING THE COMPUTERS, NETWORKS AND WEBSITES! ANOTHER 6 MONTHS PASSED!!!
I CALLED FRANK BACK TO HELP WITH THE COMPUTER CENTER! STILL DOING WELL!
TRUEL BROWN BECAME LIKE A SECOND FATHER TO ME! HE REALLY CARED FOR ME AND I HIM! BUT SOMETHING WAS OFF!! HE VISITED THE STORE ALMOST EVERY DAY OR SO! HE LIKED THE RESTAURANT NEXT DOOR! IT WAS GREAT THAT HE LIVED IN STUART AND BROUGHT HIS WIFE WITH HIM!! UNTIL WE LOST HIM TO A QUICK CANCER PROBLEM!! 2 WEEKS!!! AND GONE! THAT HURT ME AND HIS WIFE! WE BOTH WERE JUST STUNNED!
I LOST MY DAD FROM ESOPHAGEAL CANCER, NOT OPERABLE, INVOLVING THE LUNG! THAT WAS AN EMOTIONAL DISASTER!
THIS WAS THE LAST BUSINESS I HAD IN FLORIDA! AROUND JANUARY 2000!
I HAVE BEEN A COMPUTERIST ALL MY LIFE!
THE REASON WE RETURNED TO ASHTABULA!
IN FACT IT WAS MIDDLE IN 2000 THAT WE TOOK A TRIP BACK TO ASHTABULA VISITING FAMILY!
WE DECIDED TO LOOK AROUND TO FIND A SNOWBIRD HOUSE!! WE DID! FED REPO, ALL THINGS REPAIRED NEW WATER HEATER, NEW AIR HEATING, NO COOLING, FULL INSULATION! 4 ROOMS, 2 BR, 1 LR, KITCHEN, WITH TOILET OFF KITCHEN! OOHH WELL! 32K BANK OWNED! $1000 DOWN 3.5% INTEREST! DONE DEAL!!!!!
WE CAME BACK IN SEPTEMBER OF 2000! SLEEPING IN THE BIG BEDROOM, THERESA FELL OUT OF BED, ON HER BUTT! I PICKED HER UP SET HER ON THE BED, WE WAITED ABOUT AN HOUR, WENT BACK TO SLEEP! I AROSE EARLY AND WAS MAKING BREAKFAST WHEN I HEARD THERESA MAKING A AWFUL NOISE, I WENT TO HER AND FOUND HER IN A SQUIRMING, CRYING, AGITATING SITUATION! 911, IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM THEY GOT THAT QUIETED DOWN! SO HOW DO WE FIX IT! TAKING CODONES FOR AN EXTENDED TIME ISN’T RIGHT! SO WE HAD TO FIND THE PHYSICAL CAUSE! THE DOCTOR WE KNEW IN ASHTABUAL AT THAT TIME SEEM TO RECOGNISE GALL BLADDER PAIN SYMPTEMS! OUT FOR THE GALLBLADDER!! NOPE, NOT THE ANSWER! WE HAD TO GO BACK TO FLORIDA, AND STARTED A CAMPAIGN TO FIND THE ANSWER! WE WENT TO JUPITER HOSPITAL TO PAIN MANAGENT! THAT WE EVENTUALLY GAVE UP BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO ABLATE THE NERVES! NOPE, THEN 36 OTHER DOCTORS IN ALL THE SUB PRACTICES, WE DID THEM ALL IN 9 MONTHS!!!!!!! REMEMBER THE COMPUTER CENTER? FRANK JOHNSON, HE HAS 2 BOYS! ONE THE FEDERAL IMMAGRATION LAWYER IN PUERTO RICO, AND THE OTHER FRANK JR. AN ONCOLOGIST AND EMERGENCY PHYSCIAN FOR THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL/ UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI!!! WHY I HADN’T CALLED HIM SOONER, I DON’T KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!! I CALLED! I TOLD HIM WHAT WE HAD DONE, AND AFTER THE 10 MINUTE DISCUSSION, HE SAID WAIT A MINUTE!!! HE PICKED UP HIS SECOND PHONE, AT THAT TIME I DIDN’T KNOW ANY ONE WITH TWO PHONES! AFTER A 5 MINUTE DISCUSSION, HE CAME ON MY LINE AND SAID: CALL THIS NUMBER, THE OFFICE KNOWS, YOU WILL HAVE AN APPOIMTMENT WAITING FOR THE FORT LAUDERDALE OFFICE IN TWO DAYS! YES SIR!!! I CALLED! THEY SAID DATE AND TIME, I SAID YES MAMM, WE WENT TO THE APPOINTMENT, AFTER A 2MINUTE DISCUSSION DR. YUILLI ZHOU SAID I KNOW WHAT IS WRONG! THERESA WAS SITTING NEXT TO ME! HE ASKED HER TO TURN HER BACK TO HIM! HE USED ONE FINGER, POKED HER BACK AND SHE CAME OFF THAT CHAIR!!!! HE CASUALLY SAID, AND NOW WE KNOW WHERE!! AND APOLOGISED FOR THE FRIGHT!!!!!!!!!! HE THEN SAID TO BE AT HIS HOSPITAL LABORATORY IN 2 DAYS AT SOME TIME FOR A PROCEDURE! I HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE!!! THERESA WAS TAKEN IN TO THE TREATMENT CENTER, I HAD TO WAIT OUT IN THE WAITING ROOM! ABOUT 20 MINUTES LATER THERESA ROLLED IN TO WERE I WAS, WITH DR YUILLY ZHOU WITH HER! I LOOKED OVER, ASKED THE BIG QUESTION! SHE SAID THE PAIN IS GONE, I FLABERGASTERLY SAID ARE YOU SURE!! SHE SAID YES! I TURNED TO THE DOCTOR AND SAID I COULD KISS YOU DOCTOR! HE SAID I DIDN’T NEED TO GO THAT FAR! I SAID, I WAITED FOR A YEAR TO HEAR THAT!! I ASKED WHAT NEXT! HE SAID SEVERAL MORE PROCEDURES SHOULD BE ALL THAT’S NEEDED!
NOW YOU KNOW THAT THE RETURN TO ASHTABULA, OH WAS ALREADY STARTED! FLORIDA HOUSE WAS SOLD AND WE WERE SCHUDELED FOR A DAY TO LEAVE, DR ZHOU GAVE HER HIS LAST TREATMENT! THE MOVERS ARRIVED, THEY PACKED US INTO THEIR TRUCK, MY DEBBIE WAS THERE, SHE RODE WITH THERESA, I DROVE ANOTHER VEHICLE!! WE MET THEM HERE AT THE LITTLE HOUSE EVERY ROOM BECAME JAM PACKED! OH WELL!
DR ZHOU RECOMMENDED A DOCTOR FOR THERESA’S TREATMENTS!! DR. NAGY MAKHAIL, CHIEF OF PAIN MANAGEMENT, CLEVELAND CLINIC! DR ZHOU’S MENTOR!!!
IN 2005 I SIGNED UP FOR SS! NOW BOTH OF US WERE OFFICIALLY RETIRED!
THE NEXT 10 YEARS WERE JUST AS EXCITING AS YOU WERE JUST TOLD!!
I HAVE BEEN A COMPUTERIST ALL MY LIFE!
I REALLY HAD AS YOU CAN READ THAT I HAD THE PROGRAMMING, INTERNET KNOWLEDGE, WEBSITE CONSTRUCTION, AND INTERNET SITE HOSTING COMPUTER SERVERS!
I MOVED ALL OF THIS TO ASHTABULA, OH!
AND I STILL HURT WRITING ABOUT THESE ADVENTURES! NOW, I AM JUST FLABERGASTED, THAT GOD AND JESUS HAD ME DO THIS!
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