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Through my great grandmother on my father's side. Col. Joab Houghton.
Brief Life History of Joab

Col. Joab Houghton was the son of Thomas Houghton (English decent) and Maria Mershon (French Huguenot decent) born on July 10, 1725 and died on October 17, 1798 in Hopewell Township, New Jersey.
He was a Revolutionary War Soldier and member of the New Jersey General Assembly. He was a brave officer, greatly beloved by his men, and served with distinction all through the war.

Colonel Joab Houghton raised the first volunteer company from New Jersey for the Revolutionary War with a rousing speech memorialized on a plaque in Hopewell, New Jersey.

"On Sunday morning, 22 Apr 1775, a messenger arrived at the Meeting House in Hopewell, New Jersey, bearing news of Lexington and Concord and asking for volunteers. Joab Houghton mounted the horse block in front of the Meeting House and asked: "Who will go with me to Boston?" Every man stepped forward to form the First New Jersey Volunteer Company with Joab Houghton as Captain.

"Houghton was commissioned a Captain in the First NJ Regiment 19 Oct 1776, promoted to Lt. Col. on 9 Oct 1779 and transferred to Col.

Houghton fought with Washington at the Battles of Long Island, Harlem Heights, and Hoyt Plains in NY. In his home state of NJ, he fought under Washington's command at Princeton, Germantown, and the Monmouth Court House. (He did not, as some Internet sites suggest, join forces in crossing the Delaware, but remained on duty in Hopewell.

Depends on the test cycle.
Sometimes it is a 10 hour day for 6 of 7 days if we're behind.
Other times sit at the desk all day doing nothing waiting for the drop of the next software update.
Or, sitting at the test console, pushing a button or entering a command to start the simulation, sitting while the sim ran, download and analyze the results, rinse and repeat for 9 hours.

Post upper body w/o;
1 cup Siggi's skyr, 2 sevings protein powder, 1/2 cup blueberries, and a handful of walnuts plus 1/4 cup of milk to help blend.

Do it.
After years of suvs and trucks during my work life, after retiring I got the sports car bug. I'm too tall for a MX-5, found a '24 Toyota GR86 that puts a smile on my face every time I drive it.

Long black hair with dark brown eyes.
First long term girlfriend after hs had long dark brown hair down past her rear end.
Was great until she went with a page boy style cut.
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To keep that old man a bay as long as possible.
The lyric from Sons of Legion's the song reminds me..."This life can't win if you don't bet
There's an old man coming, but he ain't here yet."

Our snowshoe rescue. He loves to hide behind a chair and jump out at you when you walk by. Our ambush cat.

Graduated from university with my first degree in Russian Language.
Spent 3 summers in an intensive language program at Indiana University, a summer in Moscow and Leningrad (yeah, that long ago). Then worked for one of "Those Agencies" before I went back to school and got a physics/optics degree. Studying Italian now for the heck of it.

Another one local, pretty much across the street from where we live now...
Cell phone murders" refers to a specific mass shooting in Huntsville, Alabama, on September 25, 1996, where three men killed four people in a house due to a dispute over a stolen cell phone. The perpetrators, Joey Wilson, Nicholas Acklin, and Corey Johnson, were arrested and charged with capital murder for the incident, which also left two others injured.