Anthony Dugas:  

Life Summary - After living in Sao Paulo, Brasil (1979-80), Dusseldorf, Western Germany (1980-1981), and numerous stateside locations, I've settled in St Charles Missouri. I've worked for Allen-Bradley / Rockwell Automation since 1976. Hard to describe what I do, I guess I make machines and computers do things they don't want to do. (Note added Saturday 12/28/2007, 10:30am CST: This is based on the assumption that if you connect a computer to a machine that "they" will have the "will" to do anything at all. There would, however, be no point in connecting a computer to a machine in the first place unless you had some task in mind for the result. Therefore, it's really a given that when a computer is connected to a machine there are specific tasks for it, the "computermachine", to accomplish, whether it wants to do them or not. Entropy, being what it is, ensures the "computermachine" will at times not cooperate.) I married a girl I met at work in 1976 and were engaged in February 1979, two weeks before I left the country for 10 months. We married in December 79 and returned to my overseas home, Sao Paulo. As of today (2009/01/17) we've been married for 29 years. Some time later we moved to Dusseldorf, the Paris of the Rhine, a beautiful city in Northern Western Germany (Ja, Ich spreche deutsche). The German food and lifestyle being what it is (good, good, and just plain good) my wife became pregnant and our daughter was born in Dussledorf in July of 81. We returned to the states later that year when I passed on a job that would have moved us to the southwestern tip of Spain. Home Again, Home Again Jiggety Jig - 1982 - 1984 -South Euclid, OH Some of the happiest times of my adult life were spent in small 60 year old ...Expand for more