Full circle

I find it ironic that even though I had my first computer back when I was 14 and understood the ancestral root of the computer (the electromagnetic relay) when most kids were struggling to grasp why they were growing hair in strange places, it has taken me till my late 30s before I would fully embrace my ability with computers and the intricate, abstract art of arranging ones and zeros to make them do the things they can do. I have spent most of my engineering career as a mechanical/control engineer. Funny thing is most software engineers seem strange to me.

When I got my second computer a full 10 years after my first computer (1992), I started actually keeping a journal and I always wanted to post my writing. Not that I really thought my writing was anything to...write home about, but I have always felt that most people just don't get me.

It's very strange to me that I had to wait for another 10-15 years for this online journal called blogging to come to pass before I could let my thoughts to really rise TO (not above) the din of all the other voices out there. In fact, I even wrote my own blogging program for the bicycle racing team website I manage (hell! Manage!? I created it!) www.suncoastveloracing.com.

But so it goes I guess. One might say I was ahead of my time, but I don't believe that at all. I wouldn't really call myself an early adopter. I have been bitten by that way too many times (Can you say VISTA?)

I have been racing on a 8 year old STEEL bike for chrissakes (and doing pretty well, I might add) while everyone one is going on about how they are at such a disadvantage because their $4000 bike's 16lbs is really hurting their race performance. People shake their heads when I roll up on my beloved Landshark, but I figure that 90% of the people on the planet don't get me and I actually think I am being optimistic in that number.

So, here begins my first blog. If your are reading this, maybe you might "get me" one day. If you think you do, please give me a hint. I am doing this blog so that I might be able to articulate who I am one day.

Cheers