Baby Ben (my grandson)

I am older than most bloggers I think. I come from my generation with its unique values and its quirky view on technology. Despite the fact that I have had a personal computer since 1979, I came to computing as a fully formed adult person. This has meant that I treat computer languages (and computer applications) almost like they are second languages. I see younger people take to computers more like they are a primary language.

What I like about Blogging and Radio is that it is rather organic. It has rules around how it can grow. I see it as having more breath than width at the moment. I can add lots of categories for example, but adding sub categories is not built in. So, I have to think carefully about how I grow the Baby as I can see her getting a bit wide around the bottom as it were.

The other thing is that I am a relatively new grandmother. My grandson Ben just turned two in March. We all live in a multigenerational family here and I am getting to see him organize himself into humanness. I have the special ability to stand back further from the process and since I am retired I have a lot of time to marvel over how this growth thing really works.

So, my Blog Baby is just a little squirt at the moment. She grows each day as my understanding of what this family of Blogs develops. I hope that she can be a good citizen of our Blogging community.

As for me, I retired almost two years ago after working in Child Welfare Services. About 2/3 of my career was spent doing direct service with clients the last being as a Child Protective Services Social Worker. Due to my hobby interest in computers I was able to transfer to a computer support position for the final 1/3 of my career. I went from having 18 stand alone computers in 9 counties to having a wide area network with nearly 300 by the time I retired. Because of my dual background I was often tapped to do data mining on our legacy mainframe computers to put statistics about CA/N (Child Abuse and Neglect) into desktop applications for Social Service Managers to use to help develop better models for line social workers to use to assess risk to kids.

I have always been interested in history, politics, religion, philosophy, natural science, physics, and conservation/environmental issues. I also like computer games. I am someone who has always been interested in relationships between people and how we complete our journey through this life either together or as single people.