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and i've always been very intrigued with

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building stuff making stuff the most fun

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i can remember as a child is playing in

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the dirt with match boxes it wasn't

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necessarily the match boxes because i

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built roads and i built bridges and i'd

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get you know there'd be grass and i'd

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pull the grass up and i'd make it dirt

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didn't make my dad happy because it was

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a yard and and i'd build and i'd carve

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roads out little ditches make little

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mountains and do all that kind of stuff

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that was when i was you know before i

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was scotch we moved to the house my

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parents lived in now when i was eight so

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i was probably five and six years old

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the very first project i ever did was i

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was always kind of intrigued i'm a navy

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guy i was intrigued with ships so

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i took a model of the santa maria just a

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picture and i

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drew out how i would go about building a

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small model of this ship but i had no

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training i didn't know how to build

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anything like that so i just just went

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with what i thought would be a smart way

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to go and i built a kind of a skeleton

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inside and then i started putting little

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strips of wood over it and within you

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know eight months or so voila i had a

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ship

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so the biggest project i've ever

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undertaken is in my backyard at my house

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and i envisioned about a four-stage

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project which would be building a

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pergola putting a patio under it and

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tying it into the pool so my four-stage

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project has now turned into about a

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74-stage project

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which has gone from literally starting

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out building sidewalks around the side

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building a very large pergola that i

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designed on excel and the process is

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taken i'm about two years took about two

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years totally and i'm still not

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completely finished but anyway the

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project's been great we love it it's got

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like i said i built the shed and my

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daughters they always name they name the

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cars they name everything and so they

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they said we got to name the shed i said

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how about sarai

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because that's shed in russian so since

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i speak a little bit of russian now we

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named the shed sarai thanks to my oldest

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daughter darren so it's been a great

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great project and a lot of fun

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we can't call the ac guy to come out and

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fix the cooling system in the space

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station we have to do it ourselves so

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having that kind of ability to kind of

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think in those kind of kind of realms is

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very very beneficial uh i uh for those

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type of things i know in the training

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i've trained on many different systems

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all the systems throughout the space

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station that's why it's such a long

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process and intuitively a lot of it just

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makes sense you know i've i've had the

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fortune

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of i have an engineering degree and a

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master's degree

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but my entire career has been in

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operations i basically have not done

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much design work but i've been an

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operator and for what we do on orbit to

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having all that you know years in the

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military flying airplanes you know

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landing on aircraft carriers and all

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that kind of stuff it's just been kind

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of the way i was raised professionally

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and all that parlays very well into what

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we're doing that kind of mindset and

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understanding how things work

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having that kind of intuitive feel for

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how things work and

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and how things you know basically fit

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together so you can take things off and

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put them back on and that type of stuff

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so it's been it's been very helpful in

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the training and i from what i'm told

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you know six months on board i've never

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done that but from what i'm told from