However, I really do have to establish my credentials, biases, and agenda for readers -- and sometimes people do ask. Okay, my full name is "Gregory Vaughn Goebel", and I live in Loveland, Colorado. I was born in Spokane, Washington, in 1953, and raised there. I did a hitch in the US Army from 1972 to 1975; went back to Spokane to get an electronics tech degree from Spokane Community College; then got an electronics engineering degree from Oregon State University. From 1981 into 2000, I worked for Hewlett-Packard in Oregon and Colorado, mostly as a factory contact.

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