Here is a task I think I was meant to take on. I used to be a computer nerd ... pretty much in every way you can imagine one defined in the late 70s and early 80s. Then, one day, my sister walked in and saw me managing three machines: one online, one being cleaned up, and one rendering a 3d modeled video I was creating. Realize that this was sometime around 1986 when personal computers were really just coming into existence with some regularity. She made a comment that stuck with me ... "you're not a computer nerd, you're a computer squid." Computer Squid ... it stuck. Over the years, I've joked about that comment with a brother's fondness ... Now, I'm a father ... and being a computer squid has taken on a whole new meaning. Working on projects that I used to just warn Jen about is now a thing of the past. Projects are now assembling toys that take not just a Masters in Engineering, but a fluency in any one of a half dozen languages beyond ...
Simply ... my journey as a father.