Introduction

I am the person that everyone comes to with their computer problems. I've always loved computers, I've kept up with the changing technologies as I can best afford, and there is more computers in our house than people. Oh course some of them are project computers, but that is a different story. I really started getting into computers when my dad bought a bunch of them at an auction from the local college that was upgrading from the 386 computers. My dad knew nothing about them, but it seemed to look like a good investment. So he took apart all the old computers and made a few working computers. He sold most of them, but he noticed I took an interest in his latest project and kept two of them. See my parents had divorced at that point and he wanted to find a shared interest. We both had no clue what we were doing on these computers, but he made enough profit from selling all of them it was a free learning experience. One that required a plethora of time and patience. What ended up happening is my dad and I would call each other up all excited because we finally figured out if you type in  dir then it would make a list of everything on the computer. How amazing!! Ok well it was cool when we had no way of learning any DOS code, yes this was before the internet.

Moving down the timeline, after my dad and bonded over our DOS commands he decided to give me a computer for my Sweet 16th birthday. Don't worry I got a car after I completed my drivers test. With that computer I was able to type up reports and I got the first taste of what is now know as the World Wide Web! Ok back then it was a green screen and all text based, but it was still pretty cool. Thinking back the green screen might have just been a bad monitor.

Fast forward some more, I recently graduated with my degree in Software Engineering. Yep, I am a programmer. I love writing code! I'm a geek and I'm ok with that. So what makes me different that all the other geeks, well I'm a girl. Well I'm a woman technically, I think I crossed that bridge when I had kids. Female computer geeks are a rare breed. Science fields have been opening up to women for awhile now, and computer science is no different.

The problem I have is that it is difficult to find friends who really get excited over cool tech new technogadgets. Sure girls love the new iPhones that take pictures and come with these cool new styles of covers, but they just lack interest in the programming behind all of it. Likewise, I am not really into networking computers up for an insane WoW session, which is what a lot of my husband's tech guy friends talk about. So that leaves me in the middle with no one to share the awesomeness of Google's latest feature or the latest message forum for coders.  

So I created this blog to get all of it out of my system and to perhaps reach out to other tech geeks who share my interests.