Well, Bimjo is the evil alter ego of Jimbo (get it?). Bimjo is the person who was the class clown in school that got Jim sent to the principal's office. He's the one who laughed, and then told the drill instructor that yeah, it was pretty funny when the jeep splashed water on him & got Jim doing pushups until his eyes bugged out. Bimjo is also the one who told the Colonel "No sir, I don't have an attitude problem, you have a problem with my attitude. There's a big difference." Basically Bimjo is the one who gets to have all the fun.
Having proved that you have no life of your own (you're still reading this aren't you?) I will now tell you a little bit about us.
We were born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1956 at the Naval Hospital. We moved to San Diego when we were about six months old, and lived there until we were nine. Then we moved to the Pacific Northwest, where we graduated (they were glad to see us go) from Pasco High School in 1974.
After graduation, Jim took complete leave of his senses and we joined the Marine Corps. For eleven years we were a highly trained and lethal killing machine. Well, we were really highly trained. And there are a lot of dead bugs, thanks to us. Actually, Jim was a Air Traffic controller (I was my usual charming self), but being a 'trained and lethal killer' sounds much more exciting, doesn't it? Not that ATC isn't exciting. You sit in a dark room with a radar scope full of airplanes and have the power go out. Tell me that isn't exciting!
After eleven years Jim decided that it was time for a new career. Looking for a job that he could actually retire from (versus being medically retired from) he stumbled onto the Health Physics field. After spending two years of his time and a big chunk of government money, he was the proud owner of a AAS degree in Nuclear Technology from Tumbleweed Tech (a.k.a. Columbia Basin College). What is Health Physics? Remember the movie Silkwood? The folks with the brushes in the shower? That's Bimjo! Except now, since GFCIs have come into being I prefer to use power tools instead of hand tools for that task. Okay, I'm kidding. Health Physics, also called Radiological Control, is tasked with providing a safe working environment for the radiological workers who are trying to clean up a 50 year legacy of the cold war. Can't be having the kiddies glowin' in the dark you know.
Next stop was the Hanford reservation, home of beautiful downtown N Reactor, the last of the nations plutonium production reactors. N reactor was also the first dual use reactor, creating plutonium (one of the most toxic substances known to man, as well as being useful for making rather large explosions. Pretty versatile stuff!) and steam for electrical generation. We're still there (Hanford) and will be for some time, unless Jim has his way....
Speaking of which...
UPDATE!!
September 1999- Jim has did it again. Career switch time. Seems like we run in ten year cycles. This time Jim has decided that we need to get into the web/graphic design & web site hosting business. He even went so far as to get a company name and put up a web site so everybody could see what he's capable of. Such crass commercialism. I'm gonna hit him in his head! How long must I suffer? Sigh....
UPDATE 2!!
November 2000- A little catching up. Having failed miserably as an ontapanure our hero sought and accepted employment at the local Big K-Mart. Those of you with discount retail experience can understand, those of you without that experience will just never know.
UPDATE 3!!
December 2001-More catch up. Having tired of the thrill of discount retail Bimjo is back in the (much better paying) RadCon business again. The ontapanure thing has been drastically scaled back to just document conversions. With every Tom and hairy dick doing web design we just couldn't compete. Besides which, I'm much better at telling other people how to run their businesses than I am at running my own. And that's my story and I'm sticking to it!