{"id":2075,"date":"2016-11-05T12:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T17:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2016-11-05T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T17:48:04","slug":"five-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/05\/five-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Five"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Write about your siblings. How many? Where are they? What do they do? Do you get along better now than you did when you were kids?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have one younger brother. He lives, again, in Northern Virginia. For the past couple of years, he\u2019d been living in Texas, on account of his wife\u2019s job. While he was down there, he was doing some data science work for a major telecommunications company, away from government. Now that he\u2019s back in NoVA, he\u2019s back to dealing with supporting government (what our father did for the time after he retired from the Army, and I\u2019ve been doing for the last decade).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know, exactly, what he\u2019s doing. His interests were always a bit different than mine. His education also far-exceeds mine. For awhile, there, my work experience made up for my lack of post-graduate education. I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s true, anymore. I also really suck at Minesweeper, so I don\u2019t have a list of initials to string after my name on my LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He and I get along a lot better than we did when we were younger. I really didn\u2019t like his high school girlfriend, later first wife, very much. (He probably felt the same way about my longtime girlfriend from high school and college….)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were a few contentious incidents when we were both in our teens. I also didn\u2019t appreciate his attitude on several things. shrug<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since we\u2019ve been apart, and he\u2019s been away from his first wife, we\u2019ve gotten along pretty well. Our wives seem to get along well, too. (And, M., my wife\u2019s newfound fantasy football obsession is your fault…..she\u2019d refused to play before you urged her….)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since our dad died, and I quit driving (and making decent money!), it\u2019s been hard to get together with him. When he was in TX, I think I only saw him once. I haven\u2019t seen him, yet, since they\u2019ve been back in VA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is his birthday. I have very vague recollections of my mom being pregnant, and his birth. I was three. I remember more dealing with some of his health issues as a young kid (both at the Naval Medical Center probably about half a mile from where I now live, and at the University of Kansas Medical Center in KC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know I hurt him more than once. Protip: don\u2019t put a full crock pot on a bench seat because you don\u2019t have something free on the floor. I also did things to take care of him. (I won\u2019t elaborate.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He, actually, was probably the one who came closer to fulfilling our parents\u2019 wishes. When I was in high school, then beyond, I really was intent on trying to set my own path. Varying results, there, but he never ended up working in a hellhole like I did for a few years. I don\u2019t root for the sports teams our dad did. (And my adherence to Royals\u2019 fandom yielded thirty years of disappointment….)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is his birthday. I seem to remember snow sometime shortly after he was born. It\u2019s stayed pretty warm here this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to stop now, because there\u2019s not a lot more to say, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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