Hmmm---what to share....
When I was in the womb, the AEC site in Idaho was dumping low level nuclear waste directly into the Snake River aquifer, where the region gets its drinking water...
I sent in a circuit I designed to a national electronics publication as a lark, and it was published. It has since been republished in at least 30 different electronics books I have happened across, and a friend I made many years later he told me he had used it to great sucess.
There were only two really serious career I ever wanted----one was to be an electrical engineer, and the other was to be an actor. I wasn't pretty enough to get into acting on my looks, and reasonable talent, nor talented enough to compensate for my looks. I became an engineer.
I nearly flunked the first grade. I was reading the newspaper before kindergarden, but had a great deal of trouble in school. When I came near failing, the school administered a series of tests, including an IQ test. As I recall, I scored 160 (not that those tests really mean a hell of a lot). Upon further investigation, they discovered my teacher hated me for some reason--it was never cleared up why---and not only badgered me, but encouraged the class to pick on me also. This was reported to me later in life, not my personal rememberence. I was passed on to second grade, but the damage had been done enough that it wasn;t until the 8th grade I made any real effort to do well in school again. I graduated high school with minor honors. I still suffer from an almost phobic level of test anxiety, which has really hurt me in acedemincs, but I have learned to get past it. The teacher in question not many years after was hospitalized for a minor psychosis--I have forgotten the exact clinical term, and I really don't care anymore, either.
I auditioned for, and won the part in a tv commercial for the United Way in a national campaign, when I was in the eighth grade, and apparently did very well. I have never seen it. It was fun to do.
Guess that's enough about me for now.