okay
um how's it been this week for you
weatherwise or otherwise weatherwise
weatherwise
damp
cold
warm
hum-um
oh no damp
we have we have gone through what might be called the four seasons uh in the last week
uh-huh
we have had highs of seventy two
lows in the twenties
my goodness well i don't even want to tell you what ours has been like then
it was ninety six yesterday
i heard about that
yeah we set a record yesterday and uh very very windy but then today the wind has dropped off and also the temperature so
very cool uh i think right now it's like sixty nine
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and that's cool for
or if it it feels cool compared to yesterday but very pleasant no rain in the last month i don't think ground's very dry and
our yard work everything everything is in bloom so our yard work's pretty tough uh ground being dry but
i guess it also uh brings about allergies we're having a lot of allergies down here right now
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everything blooming and and the weather and uh think a lot of people have contracted uh spring fever
too so had a lot of people out at work you know for fishing and and uh golf reasons and things like that
the blue flu yeah
yeah the blue flu or the white collar flu depending on where you work i guess
yeah
yes
oh we have had uh as i've said we've had variable weather uh
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it has been
untypically wet for this time of year
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and also we have a lot of
green you know the grass has been growing and
if you look outside you
would like to go out and mow your lawn if you could go out and
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buy a new spark plug or something along those lines but fortunately it rains and you uh
do not have to
go out and buy the spark plug no but we've had an unusually uh uh warm
yeah
spring and well i guess we're still in winter and uh
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we have had no snow
to speak of to speak of
no snow
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we usually average oh anywhere from six to twelve inches during the winter and
this year as well as last year we have had less than four inches total accumulation
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so it's been inordinately warm uh here for uh for this time of year
so uh in that regard it's it's fine but uh
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i envy you you're at ninety four degrees i thought i heard this morning that in San Antonio it was in the nineties yesterday
yes yes it is down in uh more southern and and western areas and of course we're um about two hours from the northern border straight south and
yeah
and uh very windy it's amazing to me because i've only lived in Dallas three years and i cannot believe that the wind blows all the time
it does i i i very seldom if any i can't remember you know a day that i walked out and the wind wasn't blowing
um-hum well i spent six years in graduate school at in Indiana
in the flatlands and it was that way everyday
rarely a day went by when the wind was less than
fifteen or twenty miles an hour
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summer and and winter so
that uh we you you became accustomed to it i guess but uh otherwise
uh-huh
we as i said we have had a uh relatively mild
winter for speaking for this area of the country
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oh really where did you go to school in Indiana
Purdue
Purdue i have a brother that lives in uh uh Southbend Indiana
oh yes
and i had to always well i've lived there for eight years myself i'd always said i was gonna go back to school and go to Notre Dame
but i didn't uh
well you are not from that area originally i can tell
no originally i'm from New Mexico i was born in New Mexico and we lived in uh Southbend for eighty eight years and uh then moved to uh Tennessee actually
oh okay
well
um-hum well i thought i heard a little Tennessee in there
and uh
very much very much because i i spent thirteen years there
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and uh then moved to Dallas about three years ago so
gee you've moved almost moved around as much as i have
yeah
it's uh uh uh uh my father was in the Air Force so
oh i see well i worked for the government so i i moved uh
uh
much more frequently than i had intended uh for sixteen years but
uh-huh
i guess the uh this this is my first conversation in this uh uh
series
oh uh-huh
i had i received a call last night because of the uh
i had not received my uh personal identification number
right
so i had to call Jack Godfrey today and ask him what it was because i i had to abort the call last evening because i couldn't get on the line
yeah
so uh is there any i'm not sure how long we're supposed to talk
it's um it's just as long as you want to i mean it's just a
oh okay
as long as you want to and just you know a reasonable lengthy conversation now uh do you work for Texas Instruments uh
no i do not i work for GTE
oh okay
and i uh
of course was i was sent a uh
an application from uh from Jack i've known Jack for sometime i'm in the
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speech processing business and have been for a number of years so i was very much interested
oh really
yeah
in in being a speaker for this
oh actually i i work for Texas Instruments and um
i'm in a i'm an environmental engineer
oh i see
and uh they just published this internally
you know getting people involved so that that's really strange i i was wondering why we had somebody from Maryland though i was thinking God do we have a TI in Maryland or
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i'm sure you have a representative somewhere in the area just nothing more than a business representative or government services representative
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and um
but i have uh
i have been an a speaker in other uh similar
type of activities uh and i know the reason why this is why the uh this is being
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gathered and the program and so forth so i was interested in as i said i was interested in being a speaker
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we haven't talked much about the weather i know that's what we're supposed to do
oh well
yeah yeah well really it uh
the the letter just says um
let's see i can't i was looking at it i was trying to find out
speedy short cuts and all it says not necessary to measure your time just to go ahead and enjoy the conversation and and end it
when needed so
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in environmental engineering uh
okay
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is that with regard to workplace engineering or just
you know environment the work place environment or
uh well it's actually um waste water taking taking care of uh i'm actually in the air division and we monitor um
oh i see
anything that comes out of a stack or out of a building or
um
we do have customers that um
their concerns are in the work place and we take care of that but in within
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our department we uh take care of everything waste water uh solid waste and recycling and and air
well i had my the the call last evening was supposed to be about uh concerning recycling in the community the call i received
oh uh-huh
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and so i had uh
i had thought a little bit about it um uh
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beforehand
oh uh-huh
so i
but that that's interesting i have a um uh a friend who
is a planner
oh uh-huh
uh a city planner
and one of his and he models uh city districts and so forth uh does computer modeling
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yes
and one of the uh he has inputs or gets inputs from a an environmental engineer
uh-huh yeah we actually our division is corporate wide and we take care of just the Dallas area course we have several plants here but um we do air modeling also
to
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oh i see
and and yeah i take care of all the air modeling specifically for the Dallas area what we do we have a weather station
that we get all of this information you know temperature wind speed and wind direction and and uh we have a huge chemical data base
well that's interesting
and uh our our chemical data base so that we know every chemical on site and and um it's concentration and and if if anything ever happened God forbid
you know a building explosion or something like we'd be able to track chemicals from that building with our weather station
