[Coco] [Color Computer] Has anyone seen Roger Taylor?

[Roger Taylor]

At 09:33 AM 11/30/2006, you wrote:
>I know Roger recently took a new job with UPS, and given
>the season, he may be completely swamped.  I hope that is
>the only reason he has been silent.
>
>-Jim


Jim,

True, I've been with UPS since 2005, but I've always worked full-time 
jobs during all of my CoCo years.  It's also true that if you fit 
UPSes criteria for skills and intelligence (mind you) that they could 
very well "buy" your life during the peak shipping season by paying 
you insanely rates for a month or two thus making you laugh on the 
way to the bank and "forgetting" about your other life.  However, I'm 
a tad smarter than that, and I maintain my online duties 
daily/semi-daily no matter what, except for the few times work has 
sent me to the Dallas hub for school.

I can't been bought but in my plans to retire from the company in the 
far future, I have to take promotions and go with the flow.  If they 
send me to school for a week or two and I refuse, I'm sure they would 
drop me back to square one and write me off, or never give me a 
chance again since 5 other willing people would jump ahead of me in 
seniority line.

My long-term idea is to help design more software for UPS to help in 
the daily grind.  The stuff we use is very impressive and obviously 
written by some of the smartest teams around and I would like to get 
a piece of that action one day, but it will take years of research 
and field knowledge to learn how to solve certain problems.  In other 
words, I have to experience those problems to know how to help fix 
them using software for future systems.  Even if I end up offering 
them a schema for a solution to certain problems I would be happy 
with that, too.

I could talk all day about this, but I'd rather get busy getting my 
forums restored and getting the issue #1 of the CoCo TV DVD released 
by next week.  So with that being said, and my comments now and in 
the past about never giving up on my programming, development, and 
CoCo hobby, I'm not going anywhere, but rather I'll do what I've 
always done and keep building in all of my interests the same.

More soon


-- 
Roger Taylor