I regret to hear of your disability but I am delighted to hear that you are still growing and making the best of life!!
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On Oct 9, 2023, at 20:26, Aaron K5ATG <Aaron@...> wrote:
?My dream job growing up was drafting. I wasn't ever interested in programming or electronics. I loved the board drafting that I had in school in the early 90's and then everybody switched over to AutoCad. During the 2000's I was doing board drafting designing steel buildings. The customer told us what they wanted and we would draw up the blueprints and the bill of materials. Through coincidence my wife's grandfather who was her father figure was a draftsman in the U.S. Air Force. Unfortunately he passed before I met my wife so I never got to meet him. I do have his drafting table and instruments from WWII and the 1950's. My wife and her family wanted me to use his stuff when I was a draftsman but I did not feel worthy enough. I'm not a draftsman but I still like to draw and my go to pencil is the Staedtlet 980 drafting pencil with 2 mm lead that I bought in 1988.
I had it all figured out back then, I was going to be a draftsman, I had the respectable hobbies of scroll saw work and amateur astronomy. I can't even remember if I even knew what amateur radio was. Now I'm disabled, I live in bed and I use amateur radio to explore the places that I will never see. I'm trying to learn electronics and now programming mainly to give back to the community and to keep my mind occupied because when you live in bed, even YouTube and Netflix gets pretty old pretty quick.??
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