Jeffrey Jarnot:  

Life Hello to anyone who happens by this tiny slice of my life. Ping me at jeffreyjarnot-at-comcast.net (replace the spelled out stuff w/ the usual) What have I done? Where have I been? The answer is probably a common story for many 43yr old guy's from the 80's. A big part of my Junior year was attending the Vo-Tec center next door. I had the consumer electronics classes for 2 or 3 hours a day. Remember Mr. Troy? In his world I found some of the confidence I needed to start driving me forward in electronics. He was a lot of fun and he made the math and science fun too! I owe him and the Wayne Westland Education system an overdue thank you for that program! After H.S I went off to the RETS electronic school over in Livonia. It was a 2yr trades course in fairly hard-core electronics I had always loved electronics & computers (and star trek <g>), so it made sense for me. In fact, at 16 I bought one of the first Timex-Sinclair computers from Hudson's. It ran me $99 bucks! I stil have it and the original box. I made cash during High School by working at the QuoVadis theater. I actually worked at the 'Quo' (as we called it) through all of H.S and a few years of tech-school. If you remember, the Theater was across from the Westeland Mall. The Algiers drive-in was next store, and was owned by the same people. (do I ever miss the drive-in's & fun we had) We also owned the La'Preasian over on the corner of Ford&Middlebelt. That one actually had a VIP room that we could reserve for movies with that someone of the month. And for any Wanye M. folks... Yes, we owned the State Wayne on Michigan Ave (in Wayne) too. It was a good place to be a bit more ...well... roudy. The Ushers had more than a few black eyes over the years. (ouch!). What a treat that decade was for me. I was able to see most every movie all through H.S. and some early college. As Ed Money said in his song , "I wanna go back and do it all over again". To this day I am still a total movie buff. Come retirement you'll find me reunited with my flash-light at a theater around here somewhere. Maybe I'll sneak some of ya'all in the back like we did at the Quo <grin>. From the mid 80's to early 90's I job hopped my way up the ladder. Electronics & Computers were hot and I was in my prime. That was the start of who I have become professionally. At the old-age of about 23, I took a job at a the Ford Aerospace firm in Dearborn. Yep... Ford country! For about the next 8 years I worked w/ some of the coolest tech on the planet. Then the bottom fell out of the space and military defens...Expand for more