I'm Joe, 51 this June and a Licensed Electrician for 33 years. I run a small Tool Repair business at the local Nuclear power plant, Dominion's North Anna Nuclear power plant, and I am employed full time at a elevator controls business where I wire guess what...elevator control panels. I am a three time motorcycle drag racing champion ( yearly points ) on a 72 Kawasaki H-2 three cylinder two stroke, and a Nationally ranked #7 drag racer in Super Gas ( 9.9 seconds quarter mile ) in 1991. I also ran a motorcycle engine performance shop here at home for 5 years, my specialty being 4 stroke head porting and two stroke cylinder porting.
I have been married for 26 years and have two grown kids now both out of College.
I am waiting patiently for North Anna to start construction on the new Nuclear Unit 3 where I hope to repair tools full time again and work that job until I retire it is 20 minutes from my house instead of over an hour drive to my regular job.
My first love in DC work was Seti and I guess it still is, but I have devoted my computers power to real science work hoping to help find a cure to some disease and help humanity.
My computers include a X2 4200, XP 3200, XP2500 times 2. All on Asus boards and home built.
I came to Team AMD USERS from Team Virginia Tech because while they had a fair number of crunchers, there was no team home page and no real interaction between members...I find this rewarding to be able to communicate with you all and there are so many different people with so many different job skills that it makes it fun to just be here.
I crunch folding@home and rosetta mostly and some seti now and again for fun.