Re: Goodbye, Hello

2021-11-12 Thread Mike Schwab 
State Farm has a Borg (black) Cube building.  Country Companies is
south a couple of miles.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 2:42 PM Bob Bridges  wrote:
>
> I did a few months for them, but I thought they were in Bloomington.  Wait, 
> maybe that's State Farm?  I get them confused.
>
> I didn't care so much for the work I did for them, but the town suited me 
> right to the ground.  Just the right size, and only a few miles in any 
> direction was cornfield and big sky.  A church I liked, some favorite 
> restaurants, a chocolatiers just a block from my motel, a grocery store up 
> the way, a movie theater on the edge of town, some of the best pizza I'd ever 
> tasted over the line in Normal.
>
> That company was a ~huge~ installation: I don't remember how many thousand 
> disc packs and how many hundred LPARs, but it was a lot.
>
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> Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
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> I worked for Allstate once. For a short stint a long time ago. HQ still in 
> Northbrook, Ill?
>
> --- On Friday, November 12, 2021, 8:28 AM, Mark Jacobs 
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> Today is my last day working for ASG Technologies/Rocket Software. On Monday 
> I commence my next adventure with Allstate Insurance. What a long strange 
> trip it's been.
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Re: Goodbye, Hello

2021-11-12 Thread Warren Brown 
 I hope you enjoy retirement
On Friday, November 12, 2021, 09:42:39 AM EST, Bob Bridges 
 wrote:  
 
 I did a few months for them, but I thought they were in Bloomington.  Wait, 
maybe that's State Farm?  I get them confused.

I didn't care so much for the work I did for them, but the town suited me right 
to the ground.  Just the right size, and only a few miles in any direction was 
cornfield and big sky.  A church I liked, some favorite restaurants, a 
chocolatiers just a block from my motel, a grocery store up the way, a movie 
theater on the edge of town, some of the best pizza I'd ever tasted over the 
line in Normal.

That company was a ~huge~ installation: I don't remember how many thousand disc 
packs and how many hundred LPARs, but it was a lot.

---
Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313

/* It's ~supposed~ to be hard.  If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it.  The 
'hard' is what makes it great.  -Jimmy Dugan in "A League of Their Own" */

-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
Bill Johnson
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2021 09:07

I worked for Allstate once. For a short stint a long time ago. HQ still in 
Northbrook, Ill?

--- On Friday, November 12, 2021, 8:28 AM, Mark Jacobs 
<0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
Today is my last day working for ASG Technologies/Rocket Software. On Monday I 
commence my next adventure with Allstate Insurance. What a long strange trip 
it's been.

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Re: Goodbye, Hello

2021-11-12 Thread Bob Bridges 
I did a few months for them, but I thought they were in Bloomington.  Wait, 
maybe that's State Farm?  I get them confused.

I didn't care so much for the work I did for them, but the town suited me right 
to the ground.  Just the right size, and only a few miles in any direction was 
cornfield and big sky.  A church I liked, some favorite restaurants, a 
chocolatiers just a block from my motel, a grocery store up the way, a movie 
theater on the edge of town, some of the best pizza I'd ever tasted over the 
line in Normal.

That company was a ~huge~ installation: I don't remember how many thousand disc 
packs and how many hundred LPARs, but it was a lot.

---
Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313

/* It's ~supposed~ to be hard.  If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it.  The 
'hard' is what makes it great.  -Jimmy Dugan in "A League of Their Own" */

-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
Bill Johnson
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2021 09:07

I worked for Allstate once. For a short stint a long time ago. HQ still in 
Northbrook, Ill?

--- On Friday, November 12, 2021, 8:28 AM, Mark Jacobs 
<0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
Today is my last day working for ASG Technologies/Rocket Software. On Monday I 
commence my next adventure with Allstate Insurance. What a long strange trip 
it's been.

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Re: Goodbye, Hello

2021-11-12 Thread Robert Shimizu 

Hi Mark:

Best of luck in the new position, sir.

Sincerely,
Bob S.

On 11/12/21 6:28 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote:

Today is my last day working for ASG Technologies/Rocket Software. On Monday I 
commence my next adventure with Allstate Insurance. What a long strange trip 
it's been.

Mark Jacobs

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Re: Goodbye, Hello

2021-11-12 Thread Rob Schramm 
Best wishes for the new job.

Rob

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 9:16 AM Mark Jacobs <
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> > I worked for Allstate once. For a short stint a long time ago. HQ still
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> strange trip it's been.
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Re: Goodbye, Hello

2021-11-12 Thread Mark Jacobs 
I guess. I'll be working remotely.

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On Friday, November 12th, 2021 at 9:07 AM, Bill Johnson 
<0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> I worked for Allstate once. For a short stint a long time ago. HQ still in 
> Northbrook, Ill?
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
>
> On Friday, November 12, 2021, 8:28 AM, Mark Jacobs 
> 0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote:
>
> Today is my last day working for ASG Technologies/Rocket Software. On Monday 
> I commence my next adventure with Allstate Insurance. What a long strange 
> trip it's been.
>
> Mark Jacobs
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Re: Goodbye, Hello

2021-11-12 Thread Bill Johnson 
I worked for Allstate once. For a short stint a long time ago. HQ still in 
Northbrook, Ill?


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On Friday, November 12, 2021, 8:28 AM, Mark Jacobs 
<0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

Today is my last day working for ASG Technologies/Rocket Software. On Monday I 
commence my next adventure with Allstate Insurance. What a long strange trip 
it's been.

Mark Jacobs

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