My dad is awesome!

I'm not sure why I am so interested in this thing called a computer, but all I know is I've had one all my life. My dad bought us the first Commador 64 in 1984 when I was only 3 years old, which got stolen very quickly there after. The next computer we got was the IBM Tandy in 1986 i believe. This computer was very expensive and sported the dual disk drive that need a 5 1/4 disk to boot and another disk to run a command prompt and another disk to run an application. Needless to say it didn't have much of a hard drive or memory for that matter. Yet this was one of the coolest things we ever had. We would WOW our guests with printed booklets and signs with their personal names on them. We had a great program called PrintShop and it gave me such pleasure to create a sign or something fun with this program and print it on our super cool printer. I remember RSVP was the coolest font that we had. Anyways I think all this computer stuff gave me a head start on the technology world. I asked my dad a couple weeks ago "How did you know to buy us computers?" He said, " well my boss told me everything was moving to computers so I decided it would get you guys ahead of the game." And indeed he was right. My brother Ben works for a great company called Pacific Northwest National Laboratories as a Computer Scientist and I work for Educational Service District 123 as the Technology Support Specialist. I wonder, what would make my kids "ahead of the game" who knows, but I hope I can get them ahead of the game like my dad did.

Thanks Dad for getting us the tools for the future. My dad is awesome, he has always been a technology buff in his own way. He had a video camera early on, he had a sweet camera, and always had the coolest toys. He now owns a nice plasma tv and now one of the lastest and greatest Iphones. We recently went to the Seattle Apple Store and he took the plunge.


























The New Macbooks were AWESOME to see!!!!!!!!!!