Let's start at the beginning. In the beginning, there was darkness.
And God said:
Too far back? OK let's try again.
February 2005
I'm Timothy M. Metzinger - "Tim". I'm forty, and I live in northern Virginia near DC. I'm married (eleven years) to Catherine. New to the family is Ciara Aida Metzinger, who was born in April, 2003.
My Background:
I was born in Connecticut, and lived there for most of my childhood, with stints in New Jersey, New York, Iowa, and Missouri. At 11 we moved to Kentucky, and I stayed there until graduating from High School. I went back to New England for college, and I attended Boston University, MIT, and the Berklee College of Music. After graduating from Berklee, I joined the US Coast Guard and spent three years on active duty, mostly at a small boat station in Barnegat Light, NJ and an air station in Cape May, NJ, with side trips around the country doing systems work.
My Work Life:
II currently work as an Information Systems professional at
Nortel Government Solutions (formerly PEC Solutions before our merger)
- a consulting firm that caters to the public sector. I worked for a short
time before this at a little "dot-com" startup, which died when the venture
capital became impossible to find. Before that, I spent 10 years with the
Drug Enforcement Administration, where I was privileged to assist some of
the finest professionals I've ever known - the DEA agents - in their mission of
enforcing the US drug laws. While at DEA I was fortunate to be the lead
engineer on a project called Firebird, which replaced the DEA's computer
infrastructure with modern PCs and networks. The team won the first-ever
Attorney General's Award for Excellence in Information Technology in 1998.
I'm shown below getting my award from Janet Reno (yes she is VERY tall - I'm
6'3").
My Hobbies
I'm an avid reader of sci-fi, thrillers, and mysteries. I enjoy listening to nearly all kinds of music except bad country music and gangster rap. By far, my biggest obsession is flying small aircraft. I learned to fly in 1996 and have pursued it and now have a Commercial Pilot's certificate, with single and multiengine ratings and an instrument rating. I rent airplanes from the Frederick Flight Center as needed, and am looking to buy one of my own soon (although the baby....)
Me in the United 737 Simulator at a recent training session.
I love flying because it requires a very high degree of focus, and immediately rewards you with great views, the ability to go places quickly, and the freedom to travel where you wish, when you wish. I love to visit places I've never been, meet the people there, and sample the food (flying somewhere for lunch is often called the hundred dollar hamburger - because the burger is only $5.00 but the operating costs for the airplane are another $95.00). My flying section has a list of the states I've visited, pictures of attractions, and a schedule of trips coming up in the future. If I'll be coming to your neck of the woods in the future, drop me a line - we might be able to break bread together.
Our Pets
We recently lost Korben, our orange cat, to kidney failure. Leeloo has a new companion in Lorelei, a brown striped tabby kitten. They get along well.
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