Author: oncefuture01

I never gave my pencils too much thought in school, grab a couple packs of numbers 2 for back to school and don’t think about it. Once I could make my own choices, I switched to ink pens and never looked back. I don’t remember ever taking notes in high school, college was all ink,…

From what I can tell by the serial numbers, its a 1963 Olympia Socialite. After screwing up the paint job the first time, I only slightly screwed it up on the final product and now its all sealed up and put back together. It will be nice to have an ultra portable typewriter to help…

Okay, I have the innards cleaned for this typewriter. I used mineral oils and so, so many q-tips but it doesn’t look horrible so I’ll take what I can get. First up is this lame cream color to everything. I’m not looking to restore this and flip it, it is going to be one of…

My old job had a very clear hierarchies and a right and a wrong way to do literally everything, seriously they had manuals and instructions for anything you would want to do, and as it turns out writing is not like that. Sure there is good and bad writing, but as long as it has…

Technology has come a long way in my lifetime. I used to have to sneak into the community college of my home town to print off my papers for high school but kids today have computers issued to them, rarely do they even have to put their papers on actual paper. This is a good…

I forget how it all started. It was an office rivalry. A “work nemesis”. He was never a bad guy, we got under each other’s skin. A gaffe here or a snide remark that I can’t remember the origins of, it just always was. Then came the project. Our boss had noticed the bad blood…

Hektor making the most of the left overs: Photo by Paul King             Guam is a tiny place that most Americans have never heard of, way out in the Pacific Ocean, as in about 5,800 miles away from San Francisco is an island that takes up 210 square miles in area. A tiny speck of…

“You know Hiro, it doesn’t feel like it but you have come a long way.” Doctor E sat across from me trying to make it seem like I was doing better than I feel like I am doing. Therapy is hard. What’s that joke? You think therapy is someone sitting across from you saying “You…