A bit about Jeremy

I grew up in Orem, UT, which is a town about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.   Some of my favorite things growing up were video games, books and our tree house.

In a large way video games shaped how I am today. Not because of the actual games, but how we got into them. When I was 8 or 9, before we got a Nintendo . My dad got us an atari, with a book full of games. The problem was we had to actually write the code for the games ourselves.

The issue with this is he didn’t get us a disk drive to save them on. So we only had a game until the power went out, then we had to start over. This seemed like torture at the time, but has been a skill that I have used throughout my life, and into my professional career as a software developer. I always look back fondly at the things my parents did for us as kids to entertain us.

Another thing that has always remained with me in life is my need to always have a book to read. Growing up my grandma had a room that has Sci-Fi and Fantasy books on every wall. I would spend hours down there just trying to find the book that I wanted to read. Reading Lord of the Rings and Dune in elementary school didn’t really help out my social standing, but it has for sure helped me out in life. I can’t count how many times I have read Dune, and read it at least once a year… usually more.

Another fun thing my parents did for us as a child was give us a bucket of nails and some wood. My older brother and I of course did the logical thing with this and build a treehouse. We spent countless hours in the tree house making it higher, and most likely more dangerous. From the treehouse we could easily get on top of the roof of our home. We had to be sneaky about that because my parents would yell at us if they could hear us walking on the roof. One summer my dad gave us some semi-thick electrical wire and a pulley so we could make a zip line out of the tree house. This was a fantastic idea! We would zip down from the top of our tree house to the edge of the yard where it was connected to the fence. The only drawback is the wire would stretch over time, so we did the natural thing and would wrap it around a branch. We would wrap this multiple times until the inevitable would happen and the wire would snap. Surprisingly no broken bones happened during this fun. That didn't happen until we had a water bed mattress filled with air by a vacuum, that we would launch each other across the yard on, similar to this... Water Bed Launch

Growing up as a kid was always a fun adventure for me, my parents always tried hard to make sure we had the best time ever, all while using our imagination to do it. Imagination is something I already love to pass along to my nephews, and I am looking forward to passing that along to whatever kiddo we are lucky enough to adopt.