Amazing

I didn't tell anyone that I started this Blog on the 7th of January. I thought I might play around with it for awhile before I told anybody I know about it. Hah! My daughter found it and passed the word to my niece who passed the word to her dad (my brother) - so I guess the secret is out. A couple of blogger friends of my daughter left some nice welcoming remarks. Isn't the age of technology amazing?

My daughter is in Virginia, my niece is in Spain and my brother is in upstate New York. So much for keeping secrets. This one travelled 5000 miles in a very short time.

Not much to report from the heartland. The weather here has been just dull and grey. The big snowstorm went north of us and south of us. The sun just seems to have disappeared. Work has been going as good as work can go. I have a promotion waiting as soon as they can find a replacement for my current job. I am a foreman in a steel mill, soon to be a general foreman - which means I change from rotating shifts and having 11 people working for me, to having 4 foremen and about 60 people working for me. It will be straight dayshift which will be a change. I have worked at the plant for 32 years, all but 1 of those years was rotating shifts. Right now I work all three shifts each week, so the straight dayshift job will be a big change.

I got my wife an embroidery sewing machine for Christmas and as I sit writing this, she is upstairs embroidering a couple of cute bunnies and a heart on a sweatshirt for the granddaughter of one of her co-workers. She has been very busy since Christmas learning how to use it and has completed quite a few projects already.

That's all for now, but I'll be back.

Getting started

My daughter has a blog. My niece has a blog. Now I have a blog. I don't really know what I'll do with it, but I have it. I slipped past 50 a few years ago now, but I used that as a screen name for Instant Messenger and kind of liked the ring of it. It turned into more of a downhill slide than a little slip. I'm pretty well up to date on technology. I have been fascinated with computers since the early eighties. Started out with a Vic20, then a 286, 386, 486, pentium, then switched to AMD processors. Now I have an AMD AthlonXP 3000 processor in my main home computer, an Mobile AthlonXP 3000 plus on my laptop. The only holdout for Intel is my old Celeron 700 laptop that my wife uses with her embroidery sewing machine. They are all networked together and all that seems to work pretty well.

I used to build all my own machines, but now it is cheaper to buy than build. I've never really been into gaming on the computer. But I can spend hours tweaking an Access database to get it to do what I want. The only problem is finding enough time to do anything. That may turn into a problem with this blog, easy to start, but it requires time to update. That's it for now from the heartland in central Illinois.