Brion Emde:  

After High School I went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and left six years later with B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering. I spent eight years in the Seattle area, during which I got married (1983), became a parent and worked for various companies. My son, Martin, is now 25 years old and he lives in San Diego with his wife, Kristen. My job with Hewlett-Packard company in Washington State started in 1984. While working at HP my family and I got to live in Germany for six months and we got transferred to Fort Collins, Colorado, near where I currently reside. I've now been in Colorado for 21 years, the longest I've ever lived anywhere. My wife and I divorced in mid-2002. I got laid off from my job 2004, kicked around in various dead-end contract engineering jobs for the last while and now I'm on medical deferment for going to the Peace Corps. That's because I had a heart attack in 2007. I'm feeling well and healthy now and am waiting to see what new adventures life brings. I tried to post the link to my BLOG, which I've been writing for over four years now, usually on a weekly basis, but sometimes more often. Mostly it's defunct now. You can find me on Twitter by name or by taking my first name and first initial of my last name and mashing them together. Also, I have a website that ...Expand for more