Marssim posted "April 18, 1999" Yesterday at 14:15 in the
karma log notes, for his applaud of me.
You want to know something about April 18, 1999? (Other than it was 11 Years, 6 Months, 17 days ago?)
The WHOIS of NukeWorker.com reads "Domain Name: NUKEWORKER.COM, Created on: 18-Apr-99". But that's not the whole story.
At that time, 02/01/99-04/27/99, I was working at Hatch for GTS/Duratek on my second power plant Sr. HP job (with
SmartPeople, and
Dee Ingram). I won my first football pool that outage which is a story for another time, but worth the listen.
My first job with GTS/Duratek was a year before that, 03/10/98-07/24/98, at Vermont Yankee as a Sr. Deconner. It was my ‘last’ decon job, as I had transitioned into HP already. It is where I met Bob and Greg Reece.
Bob's AOL screen name was NukWrkr, and he had a vanity plate that read the same. It was the inspiration for the name of the website I registered 18-Apr-99, and is the name of our mascot, in his memory.
Bob left us 12-9-03, but will always be remembered. I already had Rennhack.net, which was technically the 'birth' of NukeWorker. It was registered August 28th 1998, during my first visit to Hatch (08/10/98-11/13/98) with GTS which was also my first SR HP job at a power plant. I was one month too late to get rennhack.com. While at VY, I made a treasure hunting website for Greg, named Treasr.com (his vanity plate), and I continued to work on his site until around the time NukeWorker was created.
Something else unique about 18-Apr-99. April 18th is the day my mom was born in 1947. That particular date, is eight years after she died on June 1, 1991.
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(My father joined her this year).
Nine days after she died, I started working for Bartlett for the first time, at DC Cook, for the second time 06/10/91-12/31/91, which gave me the experience to get a road job.
Is it a coincidence that the date the site was registered is my dead mothers birthday, and the site was named after a friend that later passed away? I don't know, but seeing MARSSIM post that date in the karma log notes got me to take a stroll down memory lane today, and I thought I'd bring you along for the ride.
Note: Looking back,
SmartPeople is one of the few people still alive from the story. Sadly, the football pool story also involves death, now that I think about it.