Channing Humphries:  

Life As of Jan 2008 I will not be able to see guestbook signatures. My family moved to Huntsville, AL after grade school at Capshaw. I received 9 college credit hours from taking AP exams in high school. I took the first summer off but had a goal to finish in 3 years, since short semesters at UAH made it possible. After a year of maximum hours, a summer of one class shy of maximum, and the next fall of maximum, I slowed down my schedule when I started lab sciences and planned to graduate after 3 years 3 months. I graduated Dec 1992 with a BS double major in Computer Science and Math. After a year of trying to get a local job without experience, I started grad school and entered the co-op program. At the end of my first year in grad school, I was hired as a co-op at Intergraph Corporation in the Plotting department. I worked consecutive terms (by this time UAH had switched to more common long semesters) while still going to school all year and the spring semester of the next year and then was hired there full time two months later while still taking a summer class. My MS in Computer Science (Software Enginering) was conferred in 1997. Intergraph sold our department and two others to Bentley Systems, Inc. best known for MicroStation. (Intergraph owns 30% of BSI). A lot of legal issues involving the two companies shouldn't be mentioned here. :) The deal was finalized at the end of 2000. I currently still work in the same department at the new company. I was diagnosed with Meniere's Disease and Mitral Valve Prolapse in 2001, these two lead to extreme noise sensitivity and panic disorder. I had ear surgery for the Meniere's May 2001. I'm currently in Tinnitus Retraining Treatment (TRT), wearing hearing-aid like devices that are noise generators. They are supposed to retrain the ear/brain/nerves to filter sounds properly. 18-24 months, 90%+ success rate for hyperacusis. Another ear doctor did more tests and my pattern currently doesn'...Expand for more