User:DuncanMeyers

Hello World -

Thank you for taking the time to view my page.

The knowledge that i wish to pass on to further generations will be detailed as follows,

Contents:

1. Early Years

2. Adolescence Years

3. Young Adult

4. Adult

5. Volunteer Work

6. Work Experience

7. Experiments

8. Finished Projects

9. Endeavors to Come

10. Loves Found

11. Loves Lost

12. My Love

13. My Children

14. My Autobiography

15. My Obituary

16. My Failures

17. My Blunders

18. My Thoughts

19. From Here to Eternity

1. Early Years:

I, Duncan Meyers, was born on February 13, 1979 @ 10:27 pm. My parents are Robert Edward Meyers and Ronna Jean Duncan. I was born in San Diego University Hospital. My only sibling is Molly Meyers who was born on October 11, 1976.

2. Adolescence Years:

I attended preschool at the Rainier Assembly of God. And then moved onto the Rainier Elementary School for Kindergarten. I attended one year of first grade at the Rainier Middle School, before being pulled out by my parents. At which point I was home-school until 5th grade. At which point I attended two Christian-Private schools for a half year each. After which I went back to home schooling until my sophmore year in high scholl at which point i was sent to the Air Land Emergency Resource Team in the Upper Penisula of Michigan.

3. Young Adult

4. Adult

5. Volunteer Work

I volunteered a year's worth of my life at an orphanage in Mexico. Hogar Para Los Ninos - Christo Por Su Mundo. I worked as a mechanic in the auto shop, a gardner in the experimental orchard, an electrician with the resident electrician, and various other places as needed.

6. Work Experience

6.1 My first job was as a waiter in a retirement home in Longview Washington, my first view of the working atmosphere. 6.2 Rite Aid, in Oregon City, OR was my first job after ALERT ( See 2. )I worked as a 1-HR Photo Tech, processing the 1-HR photo machine in the store for customers. I work with several hazardous chemicals that are used in the processing. Was an interesting experience to see the lives viewed through photos of many different people. 6.3

7. Experiments

7.1 Ah, I guess my first view of experiments was with my mother and sister while being home schooled. I remember my father (Bob) building a Science Center in an adjacent room in our house and it had a sink, electrical outlets, a Formica table top, and fluorescent overhead lights over the counter. Above the counter was an overhead storage, and underneath was more storage that stored our science tools. We mainly started out with learning the ph balance of different substances. Creating electricity from a potato with two electrodes. We moved onto electrical circuits. -I remember at some point my parents bought a mono-scope for viewing slides, and then a microscope for viewing actual things like mold, insects, the reaction of acids and bases. (this seemed to be the best time of my life) It was viewing the reaction caused by an action. Do this - and this will happen. I started to learn that if i did something, something would follow. The inquisitiveness of my life was born here. 7.2 One of the first experiments i remember was that my Grandfather - Earl Duncan (Mother's Father) showed me that if I was to heat lead shot on a stove so it was warm, as well as melt paraffin wax. When i loaded the hot shot into a 12-gauge shell, i could pour in the melted wax - let it cool - and crimp it. Thus creating a solid mass out of a bunch of lead shot. I made a couple rounds and then added the wax as my granddad had shown me. And then set out a 4'X4' sheet of 3/4" plywood as a target. At 20 feet I shot a round through the plywood and realized that the hole it made was only 2.5" in diameter. (a straight hole) So for my next round I placed 2 sheets of the same plywood together and fired a round at the same distance. Just the same as before a 2.5" diameter hole appeared through both sheets. Intrigued, i placed another sheet behind the 2 to make 3 sheets of 3/4" @ 2.25" thick. This time the entry hole was 2.5" and the exit was 2" in diameter. (I started to see a pattern emerge) So using a fourth sheet that i placed behind the previous 3, I shot a fourth round - This was the same as before with an exit of 1.5". So onto a 5th sheet. The exit of the round through the 5th sheet proved different in that the exit wasn't clean as the first four, but was lager and more spread out with an exit of over 3". This showed me that the mass of the wad of wax and shot created a blob that penetrated as one solid through the first four sheets, but through the fifth- it lost momentum and spread out.