I went for a walk at approximately 04:30 AM Sunday, May 17, 2020. I saw a backpack on the sidewalk near the Troup Government Center. In a large city that would be cause for alarm but not in my sleepy little hamlet of LaGrange, Georgia. I kept walking debating about calling 911 about the backpack. When I was on Main Street heading towards Broome Street, I encountered a shoe less blond female. She asked me for some water, but I did not give her my half empty bottle because I do not know my covid-19 status for sure. For all I know I could be a vector of the dreaded virus. I asked if she wanted me to call 911 for her. She also stated that she lives with a male near downtown.
I kept walking still debating about calling 911 in reference to the backpack. As I was near Solomon’s Department Store, I called 911 about the backpack. I then proceeded to walk back to the area where the backpack was located on Ridley Avenue. I sat on a bench about 20 feet from the backpack. A canine unit LaGrange Police Department responded to my 911 call. The officer’s dog is a Belgian shepherd also its breed is known as a Malinois. The dog is named Bert, probably after Bert and Ernie on the kid’s show Sesame Street. The dog is trained for dope detection and apprehension. The officer left the dog in his car presumably because the animal is not trained for explosives detection. The officer established that the backpack only had clothes in it. And we lived happily ever after or for at least the time being.
Author: jamespatewilliamsjr
My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.
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