1-was a blacksmith for couple years back in early 70's when economy crapped when I had an Environmental degree. Yeah an Environmental degree back then most people could not spell environment. Rode rodeo, could not get me be drunk enough to get on bull. But did have saddle bronc go straight up and nose dive into ground rolling over me. Just pissed me off, lucky nothing broken! I still look at horse's hoof to see the work!
2- been to 33 countries doing environmental work once my career got back on track. Prob flown over 1.4M miles. No interest to ever get on commercial ever again. Oh yeah, detained in Budapest airport mistaken identity by the military police, took to basement of airport and questioned. Guarded by squad in full combat gear. Ahh fun times. Took a while to straighten out but once it was established I was not him, handed passport back and said "we do hope you enjoyed your stay here in Budapest!". I could not get that damn movie Midnight Express out of mind the whole time thinking I am the damn sequel! I could not wait to get on flight to Amsterdam!
3-wrote a computer program in HP Basic in 1983 on one first HP "computer" to calculate stack sampling results for compliance testing. Never had computer training. The "monitor" was one line scrolling window which was SOB to watch to verify code that consisted of all sorts of characters that represented the engineering calculations you wrote. If anybody asked you a question when code was scrolling, easy to miss a character of the calculation. It was so slow to repeat, you wanted to strangle anybody who interrupted your program character calculation review. It would perform the calculations in about an hour that normally took a day. You had to write code to have anything calculated which now is on your phone.
4-met my wife in blind date, married 42 years and counting. Wonderful son married and 2 beautiful granddaughters. Everything else pales in comparison to this "life achievement".
5-authored Michigan straight wall rifle rule in May 2009. Presented to my Representative Matt Lori who liked the concept and brought it to legislature. Took 5 years to get it to NRC. Many folks claim same but my name and Matt Lori are the only names on all the committee meetings to discuss the proposed rule since I was author of it. It has spawned similar rules in quite a few other states. Have provided documentation to state groups trying for same. Let the bitching begin how stupid the rule is without knowing anything about MIDNR politics. Cool result is new cartridges that are now available for this.
