has an IT guy who really knows his shit.

He’s been instrumental in making sure that all the equipment works together, helping us to integrate our “new” machines to his older machines, and helping us make machine mods he needed to integrate the finished cells to the company’s enterprise system. He’s been around for ages, and rather than becoming a worthless old retainer like many of his vintage, he continues to do more and learn more and be more valuable. He’s retired several times already, and they keep bringing him back. He does exactly what he wants and nobody questions because he always does his job, and the jobs of several others besides. He has a couple of children, and is as protective of them as any father, and his values are Christian and deeply moral.

When O got elected, I sort of wondered how he’d feel about it, being a politically active black man. I wasn’t going to ask him, but it wasn’t long before someone else did. “I think we’ve turned a sort of a corner as a nation, that we could elect a black man. I just wish it had been someone qualified to do the job”.

I spoke to him yesterday, and he reiterated this position, stating that the Obama presidencey had, as he put it, “Set race relations back a hndred years. Who will trust a black man now?”

I wish I could disagree.