AMA #35 KingJames

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I grew up in West Virginia. My parents both professors, my dad mechanical and electrical engineering and my mother math (she taught math teachers how to teach math). In the summers my dad wrote the flow control code to most of the gas lines running through the state, I'd like to say his code has been replaced, but we'll I've worked too long and see to many horrors. I have and older sister who coaches swimming and is working on her PhD in how cold temperatures affect human performance. Her husband has a PhD in biochem but he blogs (editor) for a well known website)

I still talk, and video games, with 4 of my closest friends from high school. Two of them were co best men at my wedding. We all grew up doing lots of the same things, swim team, band, scouts, track and field, video games, being geeks when that wasn't cool kind of thing. We were all in jazz band together, I won outstanding soloist at the state completion for my drum solo. Two are lawyers, one a director at the ABA, and two of us engineers so we definitely like yo be pedantic. My wife doesn't understand who we're all still friends because of that but its out of love we are technically correct (the best kind of correct) to each other.

For me, well I lack the education my family has, even my wife has a masters and I just have my BS. My wife reminds me that I'm full of BS all the tome too. I wanted to be an architect until I really found out about what it takes to be a successful one, so I went into engineering instead, however being an architect was why VT was my dream school since I was 6.

My father grew up in Pearisburg, and as it says on the school, class of 60 never dies so he is going strong, has survived cancer and still plays 18 a day before mowing the lawn and hitting the gym for some pickleball.

My wife and I met through APO, and I'm like 95% sure I've met itrepeter while I was in college. We got married the dau of the Cibcy Game almost 12 years ago and our wedding photographer has a great picture of me yelling when the DJ showed me his phone which streaned us giving up a TD to lose.

My wife is amazing!

As I said last fall, we have twimo daughters that we've adopted. They are amazing and nerve racking at the same time. I've loved seeing them grow and have a chance to develop on their own (there's some co dependency there which is expected).

After college I moved to NoVa and have lived here since. I don't love it, but I don't hate it as much as it thought I would. I like having lots of things close, it's a contrast it WV. I have worked on landmine detection, carrier grade communication systems, enterprise security systems, big data systems, and space systems. I am currently in my 2nd stint in space.

I love to play games, when my wife amd I plays she wins the first game and maybe the 2nd and then I typically when from there on out except for cribbage, she taught me cribbage, I double shunked her the 3rd game while not knowing how to count my points. But I have challenged her on the way she plays amd she has gotten a lot better because she dropped some notions she had when she learned the game at like 5 years old. I would like to day were even, but she probably holds lead right now. We played a lot of dominion because every game is different with the cards you play with, but we've had to make some house rules after I've exploited the cards in ways that weren't really fun, for her. I like video games, diablo, destiny, ncaa football, and halo are probably where I've spent most of my time. I loved rpgs and adventure games as kids but they are a time sync that I dont have.

I've swam throughout my life, but did not swim in college. I swam in masters for years amd set a number of records and won one national title, but kids, wife, dogs take a lot of time.

My wife and I were doing luxury vacation rentals but we're getting out of that as children are time consuming and expensive, who knew.

Other than me rambling on, which I can do, and my wife tells me to wrap it up a lot. I lead a pretty normal boring life. My parents and in-laws are both still on their first marriages and at the point of no return. My wife and I don't fight, and our arguments are real arguments there about stupid stuff like how to eat a cucumber and is spelling part of grammar, or is a JD a doctoral degree. We like to argue about in consequential stuff. She also puts up with a lot as I like to sing (poorly) amd put songs in her head. Or I sing my own words, I've almost completed enough songs for an audio cook book that is set to gospel music, I'm pretty sure it's blasphemous, but I can make ratatouille from memory now.

EDIT: I completely forgot, I have seen football games in 45 college stadium.