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Re: [New Members Only] Introductions

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Hi everybody,my name is Mike.I am 48.Married to my lovely wife Donna for 24 yrs.2 children Ryan 22 Neil 17 and Skittles our canine child 14.We live in the St.Louis metro and I am a carpenter.I'm a DC gypsy and will be here for a couple of weeks before I move on.WCG name=RAMMIE.
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HUH?

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~bump~ for our newest members

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Hello, all -

My name is Mark - I own a telecom company in So. Florida that has more CPU capacity than is absolutely needed, so I turned some of it over to crunch. I lost my sister to C 18 years ago, and my father earlier this month - so in order to help prevent others to have this type of loss...
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If I am not for myself, Who will be for me? If I am only for myself, What am I? If not now, When? -- Hillel

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Names Patrick, from Maryland the place if you sit still long enough they will figure a way to tax you for it.:)
Lost my Dad to cancer and hope by doing this we can help prevent others from going through the same pain as he did.

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Andrew here from Pennsylvania. Been crunching for WCG for almost two years. Glad to see a more active team.

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Hi, my name is Ray. I live in Mt Vernon, WA a few miles north of Seattle. I work as a vehicle dynamics engineer (in R&D) for a large truck manufacturer. Been following dslreports.com for a few years now & recently signed up.

I’m married with four teenage kids & have a few pc’s networked together for all to use. The majority of the time the pc’s do absolutely nothing, except of course a few hours a day (ok...with teenagers a bit more use than a few hrs/day!). Anyway, I found out about TSC on this website and simply thought why not?? as it's great way to help out & donate un-used processing power to a good cause!

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Reintroduction...

I wanted to reintroduce myself. I was a active with crunching a few years back, but due to some changes in my life I was no longer able to be active. Now I'm really glad to be back.

I am Cam, I am in Oklahoma.

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Hi everyone, my name is Andrew, I'm 21 and I go to Purdue University.

I am originally from San Francisco, although I don't plan on living there in the future (that place is just crazy). Anyways, I have been on WCG or a few years, and am happy to have found a group of people who really care about doing something good.

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Been a while,

"Bump"

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Hello everyone, Im matt from lexington, ky and currently work at insight communications

I've been a member from dslr now for a while and decided to join a team, i plan on setting up a cluster of machines to do crunching or other assigned tasks at work and at home

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Re: [Team Discovery New Members Only] Introductions

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Hi everyone. I'm Bob, 46, from Missouri (Go Tigers).

Well, I guess I should give you some information about me here. Let's see, I'm currently waiting on the Gov., to give me a hearing date for my disability. I suffer with Chronic and excrutiating pain caused by Arnold-Chiari Malformation. The disease is when your Cerebral Tonsils to herniate (go down) into the Forum Magnum, where your brain-stem and spinal cord meet. When I turned 40, I began having issues with Migraines, back pain, etc. I went through the whole gamut of Doctors, none could tell me what was the problem, until I finally went out of Network (always works that way doesn't it?) Anyway, this doctor told me I suffered with this disease, and I should find a doctor that specializes in ACM Patients. So, I did some research and found a Neurosurgeon who did just that, only 2 hours away. It took 6 weeks to see him, all the while my workplace is getting a bit ansy about all my time off. In December of 03 my boss and I decided that I could work from home, until the time I go have surgery, then I would take medical leave. I finally got to see the Doctor, and he said I was a great candidate for surgery, but, he told me that there's no guarantee that my current symptoms would lessen.

So, I finally had surgery on March 15, 2004, one week after finding out my Father was dying from Small Cell Lung Cancer. It was pretty scary having surgery all by myself, but, I went thru with it (If someone hadn't actually driven me there I would have left). So, the staff took me to this room where I was told to undress and put on the surgery stuff. When I was doing this, my anaesthesologists (sp) came in to introduce himself, and I promptly threw-up on him Anyway, after getting myself all empty at the toilet, I apologized for the occurence, to which he laughed and said 9 out of 10 people do that, nothing personal. We talked about the drugs I would be given, and I told him morphine doesn't work on me, so we need something else in the pain pump. He was cool with this and we decided Fentanyl would be in the pain pump I got, and I would be given a dose of diladud every 6 hours. Then it was time to get on the table, get my pre-surgical shot and go off to dream land. I woke up in in ICU, searching for my pain button. I hit that little button 187 times in a 24 hour period Yes, it hurts when they put a whole in your head, open your Dura, and then poke around in your neck and brain Anyway, the pain in my back didn't lessen at all, although I stopped having migraines every other day

Anyway, that catches everyone up to this day, where like I said before, am waiting on the govt. I do live with my mother, because I made a promise to my father that I would watch over her until she goes to join him. It's been good and bad, I'm sure everyone understands that.

I did recently change my pain medicine. I was taking 360MG/Oxycodone a day, and it was not helping out as much as we needed, so I started taking Lyrica, and lo and behold, it worked. I had tried Nuerontin before and had no effect. I am pushing the limit on the Lyrica, taking 600MG a day, which they say is the upper-limit, but then again, they've never met me I have the same metabolism as my Father, I have a very high threshold for pain, so by the time I actually feel the pain, it's level 8 or higher. Not only that, but then some meds do nothing. Morphine is just like having water, and there have been others like that. So, I am very happy to be on Lyrica, but it does turn me dumb and uncoordinated. I've falled down more times in the last month, then in the past 7 years

Well, I hope that's enough from me, would love to hear from others in the group!

Hi, I'm Malcolm from Texas, but not a native. South Carolina by birth, but grew up in Louisiana - both southern and northern.

I started my career as a geologist, then left in the late 90's to go to IT where I've been ever since. I work for a major telecom doing Microsoft server support on a large server farm.

My wife of 24 years and I have three children - two boys and a girl aged from 21 to 16.

My father died of brain cancer in 1990. My paternal grandmother lost a kidney to cancer. My wife lost her sister to a long battle with Hodgkin's. My mother was just diagnosed with inoperable cervical cancer (she's got Alzheimer's and is too weak for treatment). So, I've got some personal reasons among others to find new techniques or treatments for cancer. I leave my computer on 24x7, so it is chewing up power for nothing other that background processing. Time to use the electricity for some good other than to heat the house. Regards, Malcolm

I'm Joe. I've been in TD since 2003. I'm now a career fireman working in Virginia. I've was born, raised, and live in Maryland. I lost my grandmother to cancer when I was very young. Hopefully, we find the cure and get rid of it for good!

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Hi everyone, my name is Doug, just like my screen name without the numbers, lol. I'm 19. I currently live in texas, originally born in North Carolina. Moved here because my dad went overseas. Even though I never had an experience, myself or my family, with cancer, I wanted to help since I know it is a bad disease and hopefully by help crunching, we can find a cure for it.

Sam here. Retired old fart. Hobbies are 4x4 wheeling and computers. Been crunching since seti started. TSC and rc5 are my main pursuits with bbr.

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I guess you can say I am part of the wood work here at BBR. If you do not know me I had been a Mod here for 2 years and the Host of three forums then as well.

I just go my way and try to continue to be of use and help here when I can.

Lost a Father and Younger Brother to Cancer and felt it was about to to try and help to make a difference.
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****aka The WIZARD *** A Founding member of Seti BBR Team Starfire***

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I am waharper, my name is Wade. I'm 33y/o. I'm a civil engineer. I was born in North Carolina, and is where I work. I'm crunching in memory of my dad.

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Hey everybody. My name is Bill and I'm 39 y/o married and have a little boy who's 3. I'm in Hoosier country (Indiana) but originally from Arizona. I work in technical service (machinery). I just want to do my part and help out. Thanks.