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As you may have guessed my name last name is Balding; first name is Jeff. I have recently began editing on Wikipedia again - I started with a few edits in 2006 and 2007. I am a "kinda" native of Las Cruces, New Mexico - living there most of my life. I was born in Spokane, Washington at Fairchild AFB. I then moved to Riverside, California and Ontario, California before going to Las Cruces for the first time when I was five. I then moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, Denver, Colorado and Bend, Oregon before moving back to Las Cruces again at age 15. I worked a whole year of my life (over 3 years) on my family's farm in Rockford, Washington. I also lived in Alamogordo, New Mexico for a month or two after graduating from high school. I lived in Arlington, Virginia in 2007-08 for a year while on temporary duty to the Pentagon. I have recently relocated to Alexandria, Virginia while giving rebirth to my career working for a new organization in the Department of Defense, where I have worked since I was twenty.

Education

I graduated from Mayfield High School in Las Cruces, New Mexico and hold a BS in Electrical Engineering with a specialty in Lasers and Electro optics from New Mexico State University.

Interests

I have a wide and varied set of interests in broad categories such as sports and computers, and other various activities. I can judge my interests by my obsessions over the years. Here is the laundry list (in order of length of time spent doing it): Playing basketball, genealogy, flight simulation, racing simulation, computer games, golf, computer repair business. And I'm sure there are others I am forgetting at this point.

I have been a loyal fan of the New Mexico State Aggies - and will continue to be.

Wikipedia philosophy

I believe I'm a newcomer to Wikipedia editing - but I've done this kind of work in my professional career many times. I have a good eye for realizing content organization and layout. And am fairly average in everything else.

I do believe that a great piece of writing involves much collaboration. And it's really no different here.

Contributions

Articles created

Extensive edits

The following are some of the articles that I have made the most extensive edits to:

Other stuff

US States & territories visited
Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia (U.S. State)
Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland
Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire
New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island
South Carolina Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Washington, D.C. West Virginia
Wisconsin Wyoming
Other countries visited
Canada Italy United Kingdom Costa Rica Mexico British Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands| Bahamas