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About The Woodsman
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From a family of six children
three boys and three girls, I am the middle of the boys. As
a son of an electrician I kept up with the trade of my
father. I started working with him at the age of six (more
often gopher and sometimes in the way) to the age of
sixteen. I had a blast working with him, and also had an
opportunity that most people didn't and still don't get a
chance to do, he taught me a trade as well as became my best
friend. We enjoyed most of the father son doings like
sports, Cub and Boy Scouts, my first baseball game Braves
vs. Boston, outdoor lifestyles and first driving experience
on a major highway at the age of thirteen (Oops! Sorry mom
you weren't supposed to know) Today I am an electrician by
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day with gophers.... Excuse me I mean helpers of my own. Due
to today's child labor laws, insurance's and the lack of
enthusiasm by the younger generation of (I want big money
now! The electrical trade seems to be an open market for
those who want to learn and experience a field they can go
anywhere with. My job description involves service repairs;
new home construction custom and rep. homes. Remodel
restoration and additions. All aspects of commercial with
some industrial wiring and repair. Electrical service
changes and service trouble calls are still my favorite
duties, you get a sense of job well done when you see a
customers face go from worry to relaxation when an
electrical situation has been repaired. Another is looking
at children's faces when you get onto a job, repair the
electrical problem in the nick of time for their favorite
cartoon show.
(See
National Electrical Code.) Then
there are these metallic creatures with silicon guts.
Octopus legs made of cords and wire taking in all the input
you can give it. With one big eye showing you everything you
did and need to do, most of the time a very efficient
creature fast for the most part but vindictive at times when
the smallest of all mistakes occur. (Ding) You have
performed an illegal something or another now it is time to
crash Basically it is telling you later suckers…. Computers
are the way into the future; this we all know is true.
Faster, more reliable larger hard disk storage more memory,
communications so quick that before to long we will be
talking with ourselves around the world while we are sitting
here at our desks. (WOW! This is where my nightly vocation
comes into play. Repair, upgrades and custom building. “When
the legs wear out, the knees buckle and the back gives up to
the pains of ladder climbing and constant bending, I will
still have my computer, desk and work bench to carry me
through . . .
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Don't Give Up . . . Don't Give In. . .”
About The Woodsman’s Forest
It is funny how time can fly when you are having fun. I have built
and re-built this site so many times over the years. The Woodsman’s
Forest has seen the days of BBS or Bulletin Board Services that you
dialed into with a 9.6 to 14.4 baud modem and a software like Telex
and before Al Gore invented the internet (I still trip over that
statement) and the internet of today, but it has always been a form
of sub domain or an ISP free user domain. Now today there is no
http://www.whatever.com
forward slashed in front of it nor thewoodsmansforest. In front of a
domain name anymore. It has been the mid 1980’s when
www.gilbertsonenterprises.com
with the sub domain thewoodsmansforest were born on the internet and
felt like a lifetime to see it reborn as
www.woodsmansforest.com.
But since the conception of both it only seemed like the recent past
rather than 20 years that have passed. The internet itself has gone
through some pretty remarkable changes and life as we knew it then
is a major beltline of today’s technology. It is more than a
information highway, it is the World Wide Web.
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