dards. So he was musical, even
though he never really pursued
music as a profession.
Because he was an astrophysicist
— someone who worked at NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the
’70s during the glory age of the
exploration of our solar system
— I had quite the childhood! On
Sundays, I would go down and sit
on the mainframe at JPL and play
“Star Trek” on a computer that
took up four buildings that now
would probably fit on your ring —
so it was quite the experience.
My dad would always bring
home the latest pictures from
the moons of Saturn. His job was
navigating the unmanned spacecraft
and figuring out where
things are. He’s much smarter
than I am, and a neat guy — I’ve
always had that analytical side,
too, and he’s rubbed off a little
bit on me — so I guess I got my
engineering/math stuff from my
dad, and the music, certainly,
from my mom, as that was her
profession working as a piano
teacher and a music teacher.
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