Prodigal, you have a cool sounding job.
Reminds me of the horticulture teacher at my highschool. We thought he was the un-luckiest man on the planet because he was shot in the hip in Vietnam, had one of his eyes pulled out with a fish hook and replaced where he was cross eyed, and had been struck by lightning 3 times... one of which times he was crossing a barb wire fence and fell and cut his testicles open...
Some of us found out after highschool that he wasn't exactly so unlucky, as he owned the patent for purple roses, and got paid as a consultant by several large farming companies to fly in and check out crops when they had problems. The reason he had been struck by lightning so many times is that he spent so much time in fields and was the tallest thing around. He was a multimillionaire and never told anyone at the school and drove a really beat up old truck.