Appears that my times in the club before I managed to miss this thread's active periods. On the other hand things would have changed even if I had.
I've been a federal, state, and local public servant in two different countries since 1990. I've been involved in stewardship of public monies, coaching, mentoring, and workforce management (personnel). Spreadsheets have become a minor specialty (by necessity). It's been pretty cool to have been able to work in comparable roles in two different countries, although when I first started (way back when) that would have been the last thing that I could have ever imagined. I've done a couple of things with JTS, however one of the big advantages of Covid, was the access to resources that led to some pretty interesting discoveries - like finding some lines that made me an 11th generation American. Among them 2nd cousin of Kit Greene, 2nd 1/2 cousin of Samuel Ward Sr, 1st cousin of David Cobb, and 3rd cousin of Nathanael Greene and John Langdon among others ... and to cut to the chase - it became one of those, "not getting any younger' scenarios -so the upshot being, there was a choice to be made, and I decided to focus on the family history side of things. I've got more than a few connections to the Civil War ... and have been adding to my library.
Been wargaming, proper, since late 70's - War at Sea, then Wooden Ships & Iron Men were my first 2 games; big fan of monster games- major fan of Terrible Swift Sword. Models, figures, miniatures, games, I got the lot... also do mods, websites, graphics (did a whole edit/restoration job on all of the Kurz & Allison Civil War battles lithographs (repairing damage off of the images scanned at the LoC site), and those were my best sellers at one of the print on demand publishers... these are images like found on every other Civil War product ... and then one day this site decided that anything showing a flag was too terrible to be seen ... and well, that was that ; comically they went so far as to cancel my Napoleon image there as well, because their editing crew couldn't figure out it was not related to the Civil War (needless to say, that store site I had there; after I made sure I deleted my entire uploaded image library, was closed ... I keep intending to reopen at another comparable site, but I haven't gotten around to it. Maybe some day.
Played some rec level hockey, and for awhile (think it probably expired this year) held a level 1 coach certification with Ice Hockey Australia (part of the IIHF). Funnily enough, you can use hockey coaching techniques/structures in day jobs. And the best part about hockey, is it teaches you how to think on the fly. As one of my co-workers put it... 'otherwise you die' ... well I wouldn't go that far - but you are regularly called on to adjust to situations.
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