So it begins

I've been reading other blogs for awhile now and I've decided its not too late to join the party. In programmer years I am ancient. I learned programming with BASIC, FORTRAN, and assembler. Today we use .NET, C#, and JAVA. The community has evolved from modems dialing bulletin board systems at 300 bps to multi megabit connections to the internet.

As an intelligent son of a lower middle class parents who did not belong to any privileged group I found college unaffordable. Scholarships paid for about half. It didn't take a genius to calculate that student loans were going to max out before I could graduate. So I did what many generations of Americans have done, I enlisted.

Eight years later I left the USAF as a Staff Sargent. I spent two tours of duty doing maintenance on B-52G heavy bombers. My aviation career after the USAF was fairly short. The airline I went to work for filed for bankruptcy and went out of business, but they did get me involved with automation.

This lead to my current career as as an Applications Engineer with a industrial robot company.

There now you have my thumbnail biography. So what do I have panned for this blog? What ever I feel like saying. It maybe about computers and programming. It maybe about current events around the world. It may even touch on those forbidden subjects of politics, religion, or sex. It might just be whatever random thought I happen to have.