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Beene Blog Pick a date for my blog of the day. Hint: Sometimes I post ahead, sometimes not!
In January of 2007 I retired from Raytheon after 35 years of continuous employment.
In those years I held positions as electronics engineer, reliability engineer, software
programmer, software manager, engineering supervisor, research manager, program manager,
speech writer, department manager, and staff communications specialist.
In my retired life so far I've spent most of my time helping various family members. I've been everything from family chauffeur to errand boy to dish washer to plumber to counselor to funding source for family member financial shortfalls. I've also managed to keep up my schedule of playing tennis about 5-7 times per week. Retirement has not quite been what I planned. There have been 3 family visits to the hospital ER, my home has been burglarized, we've acquired familiarity with local law enforcement, I intervened in a suicide attempt, we've learned about broken hips, I know all the family doctors (and their nurses) by name, and we're learning a lot about caring for aging parents. There's been absolutely nothing technical about my retirement! But as of about July this year I've begun to find the time to work on two of my main interests - web sites and software applications. In addition to learning new languages I'll be updating and adding to my web site and releasing new software utilities. It's an exciting time for me, and I hope you'll continue to visit the site to see the changes that are in the works! This blog will give me a chance to sound off on things I'm doing, and to put in my two cents on topics that interest me! In case you want to look up a specific blog, here are links to the blog titles I've released through today.
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Although I wrote many custom software applications during that time, mostly to perform various
kinds of engineering calculations or to analyze organizational data, my love for
programming didn't bloom until about 1985 when I got my first PC. Then it intensified in the early
1990's when I started my first of several web sites. I've since merged all my sites under the title
of "Gary Beene's Information Centers", at the
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