A post about my Grandfather
I want to reflect on my maternal Grandfather Roland Van Der Beck (Van) who his Grandchildren called Poppy. He was and continues to be the defining male role model in my life and I miss him terribly. He was a ceramic scientist and worked for many years an was an executive at Folder and GE. He invented a viewing glass for a thermal reactor which upgraded the existing viewer to be the seize of nickel up to nearly 10 inches in diameter. He continued his knack for invention into his retirement years. I remember he had a reading light that he used which bothered his eyes so he taped a piece of paper up to modify it to suite his vision better. He was always doing little modifications to things to make the thing suite him best. I watched this and learned from him and do my best to implement that mentality of making my things and environment work for me. I like how he would do something nice and then point it out to everyone by saying "Isn't it nice of m...