[Caged Great]

My father was a bit of a jack of all trades kind. Started out as a meat cutter in grocery stores when the money was good at that job. Then when wages stagnated, he started up a carpet cleaning business, which evolved into constructionish jobs.

My mother was a graphic artist and interior designer (which is my job as I inherited her abilities).

Then things went bizarre when I was a child. My mother stopped doing those things because of a weird situation. She had to become on the fly an accountant, lawyer, strategician, and about 30 other things. She had to fight a legal battle on behalf of my grandmother, which ended up changing law in Canada, the EU, USA, and was even made into an episode of Law and Order. She singlehandedly won the fight in very much an Erin Brockovich style way.

Because of her, I learned how to argue things in a dispassionate legalistic way with rationality being forefront of my arguments. She by far is the most intelligent person I've ever met.