Adventures and Misadventures

Essays and Other Writing by the Keeper

Some of my personal endeavors have been more successful than others.

Adventures and Misadventures At Work

Adventures and Misadventures Involving Doctrine

Adventures and Misadventures Involving Government Documents

Adventures and Misadventures With Women

Adventures and Misadventures At Work

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Deferred Verifications

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While I worked at the Nuclear Energy Division of the General Electric Company, I discovered more procedural deficiencies and violations than you'd think were possible for one company. My efforts to address those deficiencies and violations caused my employment to be terminated due to lack of work at a time when the company lacked the manpower to meet the existing workload. A little over a year later, I wrote the report Deferred Verifications for the NRC. In the report, I discussed one of the several reasons why my employment was terminated. The only thing that the report ever accomplished was to enhance the job security of the NRC investigators and of the GE audit support teams. The deficiencies and violations were never corrected.

A discussion of some of the other problems that I encountered at GE is included in Outward Bound, which is the next item available on this page.

Outward Bound

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This essay is very long, more than 72,000 words. It tells the story of my work history, with many tangents and digressions along the way.

Adventures and Misadventures Involving Doctrine

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Personal Sovereignty

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I originally wrote this little essay in response to a solicitation from National Public Radio for submissions to their revived This I Believe program. Of course, they never broadcast my submission. I eventually reformatted it into this essay.

Adventures and Misadventures Involving Government Documents

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Cancellation of Social Security Number

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On June 13, 1984, I canceled my Social Security number. This article is for those of you who don't think that it's possible to cancel a Social Security Number. Think again. Think about contracts.

Rescindment of Contracts and Revocation of Powers

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How many times have you been asked by a traffic cop, out on the road, to show your driver's license so that the cop would know that you're qualified to drive? How many times have you been asked by someone who wasn't a traffic cop, when you weren't out on the road, to show your driver's license so that you could prove your identity? How smart do you have to be to figure out that it isn't a driver's license? It doesn't have anything to do with driving. They just call it a driver's license to deceive people. It's a government ID card.

Adventures and Misadventures With Women

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My First Wife

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I was married to Elaine for about 14 years. In general, I considered it to be a good marriage. This is the story of how it ended.

The Girlfriend from Hell

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This is the story of how a woman used a child and the county government as weapons to deprive me of my home and of my livelihood.

Marriage: Void Where Prohibited

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This memoir tells a story of love and marriage, of intolerance, and of a failed church. It begins with my marriage to a good and beautiful woman, my second wife Linda. It reveals the abominable behavior of her so-called Christian so-called friends. It chronicles my search for her, such as it was, after she abandoned me.

Essays and Other Writing by the Keeper

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