User:Duane Phillips

Quote: "Be!"

Primary Interests

 * family
 * people
 * purpose of life
 * finding new ways to keep dating my wife
 * being a part of the solution
 * the art of communication

Other Interests

 * in-person games
 * history
 * efficient and understandable data storage and retrieval systems
 * singing

Travel
I've been many places, but there is no place like home. Home is where ever my family is.

I've set foot in:
 * Every U.S. State except Alaska (something I intend to rectify) - and lived in 8 of them
 * Spain
 * Germany
 * South Korea
 * Mexico
 * Canada
 * Guam
 * Bermuda

I have driven (non-commercially, my dime) at least a million miles around the U.S.

Life Experience
Born in the U.S. in the last half of the 20th century.

I have come within an "inch" of my life at least a dozen times, not limited to (by age):


 * 0 - being born 6 weeks early (early riser) - esophogus was not fully developed and was spitting up blood
 * 1.5 - ingesting shards of glass when I somehow busted open my baby food against a Coca-Cola bottle - xray techs saw a nickel and wad of string too (iron gutt)
 * 3 - a two-story fall onto cement (no harm done, bouncing baby)
 * 5 - having my throat cut by a shaky old doctor who was removing my tonsils (vocal improvements) - heavily sedated, a breathing tube and gauze packs were stuffed into my throat
 * 5 - being thrown from moving car in a turn (what does this handle do?)
 * 6 to 12 - saving pack-lunch sandwiches for later - had a whole drawer full of them... until Mom found them (early scientistic/food critic tendencies)
 * 10 - flipping end over end on a down-hill bound ten-speed with my toe caught in the spokes (extreme sports)
 * 10 - Surfing in the back of a pick-up truck going down the road... until the brakes were hit... my, look at the pretty rosy-red cab windows... oh wait, that's blood on my face (more extreme sports)
 * 12 - deeply sliced open hand carving a pinewood derby car (base paint coat applied!)
 * 12 - playing with fireworks behind Grandpa's sheep pen... took off for a bit... came back to sheep pen and barn on fire... (GULP...)
 * 17 - long slice up my arm with a box cutter while thowing stock out for a food chain (bake sale anyone?)
 * 17 - caught in the middle of a 4 car pile-up where the rear axle was folded into the middle of the car (fear factor test)
 * 19 - nearly went over the wall of a New Orleands raised express way in a 14 foot rental truck... tire marks on the top bar THREE times (eh, yeah, it was the er... truck... dunno what happened)
 * 20 - zapped by electricity while working under an old truck in a Louisiana storm - lightning hit the truck while my arms were wrapped around the axel holding a starter... (GZZzzzzzt!)
 * 20 - picked up an old bicycle innertube in the Louisiana bayou that suddenly turned out to be a 5 to 6 foot cotton mouth snake - very much alive and disturbed (snake experienced the immediate joy of air travel)

The first 20 years are sufficient to the point. There are yet many other later incidents. I feel blessed to be alive and enjoying the family and life I now have.

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