Okay, so I'm late and catching up, but Gunner
wrote on Tue, 16 May 2006 01:13:19 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

Finally settled down in Grayling, where I spent the last 3-4 yrs of
high school and graduated. Dad quit the construction biz..went back to
watchmaking..owned a jewelry store there for nearly 30 yrs before he
retired, Mom worked various jobs, finally wound up as the head of the
county buiding inspectors department. Was the only woman building
commissioner for some years in the US..head of a bunch of code
organizations and whatnot.

Sister was some muckamuch for Detroit Edison, hazmat department head
or such. Ive seen pictures of her running bulldozers, welding on ****
and wearing dosimeters. She took a golden parachute..went on to be the
midwest regional director for EARS (emergency animal rescue..they have
a website), now does consultation work for DE atsome multiple of her
original rate, works cadaver dogs in disasters, charter member of
Second Amendment Sisters, is in several motorcycle riders
organizations and her boyfriend is a Shriner Motorcycle Team
rider..whatever they are called.

I had other priorities...shrug..so Im the blacksheep of the family,
eh?

You sound somewhat like cousin Steve. Black sheep of the family, he
was the first to not graduate from College. Then his family discovered
what a motorcycle mechanic could make, and decided it wasn't all bad ... .

--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."