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 Bdale Garbee, KB0G
 ==================
 
-Welcome to my "new" personal home page.
-
 After retiring at the end of August, 2012, from my long-held position as
 [HP](http://hp.com) Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist... I worked 
 part-time for [Samsung](http://samsung.com) as Senior Adviser to the Open 
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 My "spare nanoseconds" are mostly consumed playing with 
 [rockets](http://gag.com/rockets), which includes managing 
 [Altus Metrum, LLC](http://altusmetrum.org) with business partner 
-[Keith Packard](http://keithp.org).
+[Keith Packard](http://keithp.org).  I hold a "Level 3 certification" and am
+a member of both the [National Association of Rocketry](http://nar.org)
+and the [Tripoli Rocketry Association](http://tripoli.org).  My personal 
+confirmed flight altitude record is 32,635 feet above ground, my highest 
+recorded acceleration is 86 g, the heaviest project I ever built weighed 168 
+pounds on the launch rail, and I've flown a rocket I designed and built
+that reached Mach 3.21.  I served on the committee that defined the 
+[Tripoli Mentoring Program](http://www.tripoli.org/TMP), and am
+immensely proud that my son aced the test to become one of the earliest TMP 
+participants.
 
 I miss the early days of the web, when it was mostly informative text... 
 but if you're really curious, there are some pictures of me on my 
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 [Pikes Peak FM Association](http://www.ppfma.org), past board member 
 of the [Pikes Peak Radio Amateur Association](http://ppraa.org),
 and a member of the 
-[ARRL](http://www.arrl.org).
+[ARRL](http://www.arrl.org) and [QCWA](https://qcwa.org).
 Perhaps my best-known early contribution to the hobby was the silly little 
 mail program I wrote for KA9Q's NOS networking software, called 
 [BM](ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/tcpip/mailers),