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Well, I finally managed to get myself transfered! We're moving from St. Louis back to the land of sweet tea and college football, or Huntsville, AL to be more specific. Okay, it's not the same magnitude as Lee's move, but it's certainly significant to us. I'm sure STL is fine for people who grew up here, but neither my wife or I did, and it is very difficult raising kids when you're 12 hours away from your parents. We're cutting that separation down to 1.5 hours now. So I move at the end of April, with my family following a month later (my son needs to finish the school year first). It's going to be a very frantic month, but all of our family is practically bouncing off the walls!
Of course, it certainly doesn't hurt that this comes with a promotion and pay raise!
B.J. (Rocket City bound!)
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Ahh, Huntsville, Huntsville Alabama. The very name is cloaked in Cold War Space-Race mystique. What beter reason could there ever be to go to Alabama? Indeed, what other reason could there possibly be to go to Alabama? I jest, of course. Good luck!
And welcome to the wacky world of free familial childcare. If such a thing is possible at a separation of 90 minutes' travel. . . My wife's parents are 10 minutes away so we see them all the time, whereas my parents live two and a half hours away, and we maybe see them once a month.
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Apparently they're going to use a Stargate to move our stuff.
Seriously, though, a rep from the moving company came by today to survey our house, and I swear he was Rodney McKay's doppelganger. He even had the same body movements. Wierd.
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Hey, I had an internship in Huntsville last summer! Nifty. What line of work you in, BJ?
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Cool! I've got a couple friends going into that when they graduate in May. You don't work for Sverdrup, by any chance?
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What happened in Huntsville during the Cold War... all I've heard about the place is that they have large Trek/Sci-Fi conventions there don't they?
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Huntsville is home to, among other things, the Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command. Or, in other words, a good place to be if you were interested in rockets in the 1960s. (Or indeed today.)
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I attended Space Camp/Academy in Huntsville during highschool. I pretty much didn't have any use for math until that visit where other kids my age were heavy into Trig and I was limping through Algebra. It was an intensive week I'll never forget. They have it for many grade levels and they hold it on the grounds of the US Space & Rocket Center. It was like the coolest and should your children show the littlest interest in space sciences, BJ, you'd be doing them a great service to send them. Certainly visit the museum.
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Actually, I work for Boeing. I've been working on fighter jets and other stuff here in STL. I'll be helping design the P-8A mods in HSV, at least at first.
Since I grew up in North Georgia, I've been able to visit HSV several times. Believe me, the Rocket Center is one of the first places I'm taking my kids.
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