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>>>BS Metallurical Engineering eons ago, but always worked as a mechanical engineer doing various types of avoinics software.<<<

Well, with my never ending interests in all things... There was only one field that came close to capturing it for me...
Agricultural Engineer.. Civil/Structural/Electrical/Mechanical all rolled into one... See, Jack of all trades - Master of none...

LOL In College, a spreadsheet was hand written and calculations were on our trusty slide-rule... First calculator I ever saw/used was a Marshant (sp) All mechanical - gears, sprockets and numbered wheels - the carriage did a ka-bump and jumped over as it changed places on the calculations. It used to hang quite often, and even the manual said the fix was to lift it about 10-12 inches above the desk and drop it.

>>Avionics<< LOL Again.. When I took flight training, it was a two sided Circular Slide-rule Like an E6B... compass, turn and bank indicator, and oooh, some of them had those fancy gyroscope thingys that you absolutely had to lock down (cage) before you practiced spins...(really messed them up if you didn’t)

OK, I am a little bit computer literate though...I started programming on an IBM 1401 (4k RAM) in Assembler Language. (self taught)..Yep, 80 column cards, keypunch - verifiers, sorters and collators... Used them all. (Hey, I remember IBM saying they had solved the data storage for decades into the future - a 96 column card that was even shorter than the 80 column ones... LOL) Much later taught Lotus 123,dBase3, Word Perfect and Basic Programming at local Jr. College and Adult Night School...

Hey, the spreadsheet inventory sounds neat! Ummmm, any possibility of sharing???

I have tinkered over the years with them to where I had a steady stream of big-whig financial people coming to see what I was doing... I took a Commodore Vic20 and a 300 baud modem and was copying radio teletype and then when the credit bureau wanted you to buy their teletype machines, I told them nope - just want the service no equipment... They said it couldn’t be done (wrong thing to tell me) so I got them to give me the info and login and I showed them...

I later wrote a basic program to massage their output and put it into a CSV file and imported it into Lotus 123 and built a credit modeling spreadsheet to do loan application evaluations for our credit committee. That one brought a ton more interested people... LOL So I have had some fun with them.

Seriously, I would like a copy if possible... Never thought of emailing expirations. Neat idea.

Agricultural Engineer..

That's why you remind me so much of a wonderful man that I worked with in my very short time teaching. He had a PhD in organic chemistry, plus masters in that and biology. He lived to grow stuff! He would come to school with the most marvelous fruits. And loved to talk about his farm. Teaching was a side line and I think he'd be glad to chuck it and just farm full time. Now that's what a teacher should be - someone who can actually use the subject (he taught chemistry) and loves it. Not like 99% of the teachers that were there...but that's another subject.

In College, a spreadsheet was hand written and calculations were on our trusty slide-rule

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I started programming on an IBM 1401 (4k RAM) in Assembler Language. (self taught)..Yep, 80 column cards, keypunch - verifiers, sorters and collators...

You thought I wouldn't know what you're talking about, didn't you? In chemistry in high school, we spent the first few weeks learning how to use a slide rule. And used 'em until my senior year when calculators were more available. And my freshman year at college, I used keypunch cards to do my first programming class! My sophomore year, we got monitors to enter the data and thought we were really high tech! I'm not so much younger than you after all, GG! We may be peers and so I don't know what I'd call you then...

Hey, the spreadsheet inventory sounds neat! Ummmm, any possibility of sharing???

Absolutely. I haven't gotten a patent on it ;) Anyone that wants a copy, just let me know...Freepmail doesn't take attachments, so if you could Freepmail me your address that will take attachments, I'll send the file along. Right now, it will include the entire file in the email message body plus attach the file (I had to see if I could make it work, ya know?). I'd like to change it someday to only include the data that has expired. I'm limited in how much I can type (I use a VR system most of the time here, surfing the net, and emailing), but it doesn't work with Visual Basic. So, I can't do everything I want physically. I also want to add the part that will scan an entry to see if it is already listed and sort them my expiration date. I haven't played with VB to have it sort entries yet - that should be fun to try ;)

My husband thinks I'm nut to be emailing myself, but....you know cuz you talked about doing calculations while farming! Once an engineer, always an engineer! (And that includes many bright right-brained people that don't have their degrees)