Actually... I'm a Damned Yankee. Joined the Navy 1984 at 17 from Northwest Pennsylvania. In September of 1987 I was on a Guided Missile Frigate that navigated the Mississippi River to spend 14 months at what was then called the Avondale Shipyard. I met Mrs. Parallel while there and after I separated in 1997 we came to New Orleans to "visit"... twenty something years and two houses later here I am.