So you want know more about me? I grew up in a log ... no, wait ... wrong guy. Well, I did grow up in a very rural area. A member of the Egyptian High School class of 1975, consisting of around 60 kids. I found myself giving the valedictorian address at graduation (woo-hoo), but perhaps that was more about being in a small pond than being particularly bright. However, I did go on to get a BS from the University of Illinois thanks to an AFROTC federal scholarship. My college dorm had more people living in it than the population of my entire home town (Tamms, IL). Talk about culture shock; all t...